Colleges in USA

Amherst College asks for a standard application fee of USD 75 (INR 6,400) from all first-year applicants.

The application fee is non-refundable & is mandatory to be paid during the application process, without which the application cannot go through for consideration.

The institute advises students to file respective applications as early as possible to leave enough time for document verification & VISA processing.

The Amherst College is known to offer over 40 majors across some prominent industry relevant fields.

However, as per data curated from the College's official website, its Humanities, Natural Science & Social Science courses are known to be among its most prominent ones.

Some other popular majors offered by Amherst include: Computer Science, Biology, English, Music, Political Science, Religion, Sociology & Theater & Dance.

No, the Amherst College is not part of the Ivy League which are known to be among the best colleges & universities in the United States & globally.

The eight members that form part of the Ivy League are:

·      Harvard University

·      Columbia University

·      University of Pennsylvania

·      Yale University

·      Princeton University

·      Cornell University

·      Brown University

·      Dartmouth College

As per the latest Shiksha Popularity Rankings, Amherst College, based in Amherst, Massachusetts, is ranked #572 among all colleges & universities in the world.

Another prominent global university ranking platform, ranks it #301-350 for its “Ranking by Subject” category for the year 2025.

The Amherst College is known for offering a financial aid program that is among the best in the country.

As per data curated from the official Amherst website, the average financial aid package offered by the college is worth USD 71 K (INR 60.2 L), while about 57% of its students have received financial aid in the form of loans or grants.

The institute awarded USD 78 million worth of financial aids to its students, last year.

The Amherst College is not known to be a Tier 1 institute. Tier 1 institutes generally comprise of private research universities such as MIT, Stanford, CalTech, Duke & John Hopkins.

Amherst falls in the category of Tier 2 institutions. Tier 2 majorly comprises of private liberal arts colleges such as Williams, Smith, Amherst & Swarthmore among others.

Detroit Mercy University offers 100+ academic courses. Some of the popular majors of this university are Health Professions and Related Programs; Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Engineering; Architecture-Related Services. Additionally, as per a top-ranking publisher 2025-26 rankings, a few of the graduate programs of this university such as Engineering, Business, Law, Health Professions and Nursing rank among the top in the U.S.

To get into the UofD MS in Software Engineering, a minimum GPA of 3.0 is required in Bachelor's degree. Also, note that a GPA of 2.7 or higher may be considered with the addition of pre-requisite courses and the approval of the department director / chair and Dean's office. Additionally, the following requirements must also be met:

• Must have taken courses in programming language such as C+ or Java, Data Structures and Algorithms, Calculus, Machine Organization, and Discrete Mathematics
• Also, submit IELTS with a minimum score of 6.5 / TOEFL score of 81 in iBT

For Fall 2024, the total number of international students at the University of Detroit Mercy is 5,587. Of which, 3,400+ are UG students, 930+ Graduate students, and 1,200+ Professional students. As per the student diversity, 25% are international students. Out of the total students, 72% are full-time students. In terms of gender enrollment, 57% are women and 43% are men.