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Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA · Private (nonprofit) · 10,085 students · mostly bachelor degrees
111th-cheapest of 117 Massachusetts colleges by net price.
Official site →Net price / year
$41,704
after grant aid
Sticker cost / year
$89,493
Graduation rate
91%
Admission rate
16%
Median graduate earnings
$103,937
~10 yrs after entry
Median student debt
$19,000
Average SAT
1507
Median ACT
34
Pell grant recipients
13%
3-yr loan default rate
0%
Fields of study
125 programsLaw · First Professional Degree244 grads/yr$190,940Educational Leadership and Administration, General · Doctoral Degree6 grads/yr$174,350Business Administration and Management, General · Master's Degree307 grads/yr$152,252Finance, General · Master's Degree58 grads/yr$151,547Finance, General · Bachelor's Degree384 grads/yr$147,746Computer Science · Bachelor's Degree144 grads/yr$143,204Telecommunications Management · Master's Degree$134,796Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies · Bachelor's Degree57 grads/yr$132,903Information Science/Studies · Bachelor's Degree70 grads/yr$131,090Management Science · Bachelor's Degree109 grads/yr$126,475Accounting · Bachelor's Degree77 grads/yr$126,461Business Administration and Management, General · Bachelor's Degree120 grads/yr$123,144Econometrics and Quantitative Economics · Bachelor's Degree335 grads/yr$121,337Accounting · Master's Degree42 grads/yr$118,957Clinical Nurse Leader · Master's Degree61 grads/yr$117,616Mathematics, General · Bachelor's Degree63 grads/yr$111,072Marketing/Marketing Management, General · Bachelor's Degree84 grads/yr$106,353Logic · Bachelor's Degree77 grads/yr$97,519Clinical Nurse Leader · Bachelor's Degree115 grads/yr$94,867International/Globalization Studies · Bachelor's Degree90 grads/yr$91,874Political Economy · Bachelor's Degree158 grads/yr$86,537Biology/Biological Sciences, General · Bachelor's Degree220 grads/yr$83,614Communication, General · Bachelor's Degree153 grads/yr$83,586Environmental Science · Bachelor's Degree38 grads/yr$82,861Public/Applied History · Bachelor's Degree69 grads/yr$80,073
Earnings shown where the Department of Education reports them; programs with too few graduates are suppressed.
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Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard (most recent cohorts). Net price is for students receiving federal aid; earnings are a past cohort measured years after entry, not a guarantee.