Williams College
Williamstown, Massachusetts
- Private nonprofit
- Town
- 2,076 undergrads
- Admit rate
- 8%Source: College Scorecard
- Average net price
- $15,157per year, after grantsSource: College Scorecard
- Graduation rate
- 94%within 6 yearsSource: College Scorecard
- Median earnings
- $95,95410 years after startingSource: College Scorecard
What's special
Under its All-Grant financial aid program, Williams eliminates all student loans and work-study requirements from financial aid packages, replacing them with institutional grants that do not need to be repaid.
Williams provides a Book Grant that covers the full cost of all required textbooks and course materials for every student receiving financial aid.
Getting in
- Admit rate
- 8%About 1 in 12 applicants get in.Source: College Scorecard
- Test policy
- Test-optionalScores are considered if you send them, but not required.Source: College Scorecard
- SAT (middle 50%)
- 1490–1570Reading + math, enrolled first-years who sent scoresSource: College Scorecard
- ACT (middle 50%)
- 34–35Composite, enrolled first-years who sent scoresSource: College Scorecard
Where you'd stand
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Sources: College Scorecard. Test ranges describe enrolled students who sent scores.
What it really costs
Most families pay less than the sticker price. Net price is what's left after grants and scholarships.
- Average net price
- $15,157full-time first-years who got grant aidSource: College Scorecard
- Total cost of attendance
- $89,520sticker price incl. housing, per yearSource: College Scorecard
- Tuition
- $72,510Source: College Scorecard
After you enroll
- Graduation rate
- 94%first-time, full-time students finishing within 6 yearsSource: College Scorecard
- Came back for year two
- 97%full-time first-year studentsSource: College Scorecard
- Median earnings
- $95,95410 years after starting, for students who got federal aidSource: College Scorecard
- Median debt at graduation
- $8,000federal loans, students who finishedSource: College Scorecard
Students
- Undergraduates
- 2,076Source: College Scorecard
- Receive Pell grants
- 16%a sign of economic diversitySource: College Scorecard
- First-generation students
- 22%parents didn't go beyond high schoolSource: College Scorecard
Similar schools
Similar, and easier to get into
- Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA — admits 36%
- Clark University Worcester, MA — admits 40%
- Stonehill College Easton, MA — admits 66%
- Simmons University Boston, MA — admits 70%
Also worth a look
- Amherst College Amherst, MA — admits 9%
- Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME — admits 7%
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA — admits 5%
- Davidson College Davidson, NC — admits 13%
- Grinnell College Grinnell, IA — admits 15%
- Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA — admits 7%
Where these numbers come from
Every number on this page comes from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard page for Williams College, which draws on what the school reports to the federal government and on federal student aid and tax records. We last pulled the data on November 4, 2026. Different measures cover different years; here's how each one works.
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