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Best Colleges in New Hampshire

The strongest colleges and universities in New Hampshire, ranked by graduation rate and selectivity, with verified acceptance rates, net price, and test scores for this admissions cycle.

How this list is ranked

The strongest colleges and universities in New Hampshire, ranked by graduation rate and selectivity, with verified acceptance rates, net price, and test scores for this admissions cycle.

Schools on this list 30
Source Federal data, same records as every school page

Admit rate, net price, and SAT in the table are for context. Rank order follows the method above, not those columns.

Rank School Admit Net price SAT
1 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 5.4% $29,519 1500-1570 See record
2 University of New Hampshire-Main Campus Durham, NH 88% $23,805 1090-1330 See record
3 Saint Anselm College Manchester, NH 78% $34,779 1110-1278 See record
4 Thomas More College of Liberal Arts Merrimack, NH - $18,489 - See record
5 Keene State College Keene, NH 90% $17,887 - See record
6 Colby-Sawyer College New London, NH 80% $27,431 - See record
7 Franklin Pierce University Rindge, NH 93% $27,154 1057-1282 See record
8 Plymouth State University Plymouth, NH 88% $19,216 - See record
9 Rivier University Nashua, NH 83% $28,082 1055-1175 See record
10 University of New Hampshire at Manchester Manchester, NH 81% $9,992 973-1236 See record
11 Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, NH 100% $36,708 - See record
12 New England College Henniker, NH 92% $26,972 - See record
13 University of New Hampshire College of Professional Studies Online Manchester, NH - $10,864 - See record
14 Harmony Health Care Institute Merrimack, NH 84% $42,740 - See record
15 Antioch University-New England Keene, NH - - - See record
16 Empire Beauty School-Hooksett Hooksett, NH - $10,549 - See record
17 Empire Beauty School-Laconia Laconia, NH - $11,382 - See record
18 Empire Beauty School-Somersworth Somersworth, NH - $9,170 - See record
19 Great Bay Community College Portsmouth, NH - $15,768 - See record
20 Keene Beauty Academy Keene, NH - $14,027 - See record
21 Lakes Region Community College Laconia, NH - $13,124 - See record
22 Manchester Community College Manchester, NH - $14,143 - See record
23 Nashua Community College Nashua, NH - $23,154 - See record
24 NHTI-Concord's Community College Concord, NH - $18,011 - See record
25 Paul Mitchell the School-Portsmouth Portsmouth, NH - $29,986 - See record
26 River Valley Community College Claremont, NH - $14,804 - See record
27 St Joseph School of Nursing Nashua, NH - - - See record
28 University of New Hampshire-Franklin Pierce School of Law Concord, NH - - - See record
29 Upper Valley Educators Institute Lebanon, NH - - - See record
30 White Mountains Community College Berlin, NH - $15,474 - See record