Hampshire College
Amherst, MA
Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, a rural area on the edge of a city or town, with 839 undergraduates. The arts and natural resources are its signature fields: together they make up 37% of its bachelor's degrees, about six times their share across the colleges we cover. 54% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $46,938 ten years after starting.
Hampshire College admitted 1,559 of 2,216 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (70.4%).
- Acceptance rate
- 70.4%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $58,896
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $24,034
- Average, students with aid
Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe the fall 2023 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
What Hampshire College is known for
Measured by the 68 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
The arts
30.9%
of its bachelor's degrees: about six times the 4.9% share across the colleges we cover.
Natural resources
5.9%
of its bachelor's degrees: about five times the 1.2% share across the colleges we cover.
- Fine and Studio Arts1217.6% of degrees
- Sociology57.4% of degrees
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research45.9% of degrees
- Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies45.9% of degrees
- Zoology/Animal Biology45.9% of degrees
- Design and Applied Arts45.9% of degrees
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.
The place
Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.
Setting
Rural, near a city or town
Amherst, MA
Undergraduates
839
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Baccalaureate college, arts and sciences focus
Living on campus
Half or more
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
13 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
5%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
What stands out at Hampshire College
Two things Hampshire College published, ranked by how much each could change what you actually do, not by how impressive it looks. Every one describes a class that has already enrolled.
Hampshire College reports that test scores are not considered at all.
That is the school’s own answer on the form it fills in every year. A score you send is not read as part of the decision here.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Families paid $24,034 on average after aid.
Averaged across students who received federal aid: the price after grants and scholarships, not the sticker price.
Source: the College Scorecard
Every figure, in full
The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.
Acceptance rate
70.4%
1,559 admitted of 2,216 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Hampshire College?
The figures on this page describe a class that already enrolled. GoodGoblin reads them against your own transcript, scores, activities and budget, then builds the balanced list, the essay plan and the deadline calendar around what it finds.
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What Hampshire College costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $58,896, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $74,195. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $24,034 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$58,896
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$74,195
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$24,034
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $74,195 full cost.
- Under $30k$13,749Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$15,251Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$18,165Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$25,447Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$37,221Typical public university: $22,475
Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.
Where it leads
Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.
Finish within six years
54%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
78%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$46,938
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$26,893
Our colleges' median: $23,725
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars; debt describes federal loans of students who graduated in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.
What Hampshire College says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Essayrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendationsrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPAconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Class rankconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Test scores
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
More colleges on the record
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Other colleges in Massachusetts
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- Springfield College70.2%
- Fisher College70.8%
- Wheaton College (Massachusetts)71.3%
- Endicott College72.3%
Colleges with a similar acceptance rate
Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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