Merrimack College
Merrimack College admitted 70% of applicants. Its average net price after aid was $39,219 a year. Within six years, 69% of first-time, full-time students graduated.
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Admissions
- Admission rate
- 70%
- SAT/ACT scores
- Not required
Cost
- Cost of attendance, before aid
- $73,750 a year
- Average net price after aid
- $39,219 a year
- Net price for families earning under $30,000
- $33,969 a year
- Tuition and fees
- $55,852 a year
Outcomes
- Graduation rate (within 6 years)
- 69%
- Students who return for a second year
- 79%
- Median earnings 10 years after starting
- $74,412 a year
- Median debt at graduation
- $27,000
Students
- Undergraduates
- 3,916
- Undergraduates with a Pell Grant
- 21%
- Student-faculty ratio
- 13 to 1
- Campus setting
- Suburb
Most common fields of study
Share of the degrees the college awarded, by field.
- Business, management and marketing
- 30%
- Health professions
- 16%
- Family and consumer sciences
- 8%
- Homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting
- 6%
- Engineering
- 6%
Colleges with similar selectivity
Closest by admission rate and SAT scores.
- Simmons University MA · 70% admitted
- Yeshiva Gedolah of Cliffwood NJ · 70% admitted
- Greensboro College NC · 70% admitted
- Tennessee State University TN · 70% admitted
- Yeshiva of Machzikai Hadas NY · 70% admitted
- Capital University OH · 70% admitted
More colleges in Massachusetts
- University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA · 60% admitted
- Boston University MA · 11% admitted
- Northeastern University MA · 5.2% admitted
- University of Massachusetts-Boston MA · 84% admitted
- University of Massachusetts-Lowell MA · 83% admitted
- Boston College MA · 16% admitted
- Bridgewater State University MA · 88% admitted
- Harvard University MA · 3.6% admitted
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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, most recent institution-level data (October 2026 release). Admission figures are reported by the college; check its website for current requirements.