The 20 Most Expensive Colleges in the United States

9. Amherst College

Amherst bears the same name as the town it’s in, Amherst, Massachusetts. At first it was an all-male university, until it started allowing women in 1975. The Wall Street Journal ranked it as the best liberal arts college in America for the 2018-2019 academic year. It routinely ranks among the country’s very best liberal arts program due to its great academics. It received 8,406 applicants for the 2020 class. It accepted only 1,161 of them, making its acceptance
rate 13.8%.
Tuition: $53,480