Manchester, NH · Private · Every figure is for a student starting in fall 2027. We work each one out again whenever we update the site.
How to pay for Saint Anselm College
What a year costs here, what brings it down, and what a SmartTuition plan could save a family like yours.
Paying for four years here
Four years here, after grants
$148,141
A SmartTuition plan could save a family like this about $8,400.
A SmartTuition plan shows what to pay from where, each semester, using your own numbers.
Build your SmartTuition plan for Saint Anselm College, $99 →Best once your award letter arrives. No letter yet? Get the monthly email.
A family of four with good credit and $500 a month for college. How we worked these out ↓
A year at Saint Anselm College
| Full price | $74,495 |
| After grants, at your income | $32,445 |
100% of first-year students here got a grant or scholarship from the college in 2023-24, $30,731 on average.
At this income, 5 of New Hampshire's other 6 colleges cost less after grants, and 1 cost more. See them all →
What can bring it down
Merit scholarships. Saint Anselm gives merit scholarships and grants of $20,000 to $34,000 a year to students with strong academic records. The page describes students entering in 2025-26.
Saint Anselm College's promise. Anselmian Community Commitment: free tuition for Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont residents with a family income of $100,000 or less. The conditions ↓
Pay less for college
A SmartTuition plan shows what to pay from where, each semester.
At Saint Anselm College, our scenarios for New Hampshire households with good parent credit show a SmartTuition plan saving a median of about $7,200 over four years. How we worked this out ↓
Considering more than one college?
Put the schools you are considering on one list and we price each of them for your family. It is free. It asks what you earn and what you have saved, never your name.
Put your schools side by side →Merit scholarships
What Saint Anselm College says it awards for grades and test scores.
Saint Anselm gives merit scholarships and grants of $20,000 to $34,000 a year to students with strong academic records. The page describes students entering in 2025-26.
“Merit aid is offered by the Office of Admission, in the form of scholarships and grants, to students who display exemplary academic credentials. Merit awards range from $20,000-$34,000 annually.”
Published guarantees you may qualify for
We do not assume you qualify for any of these, and our plans never bank on them. Check each against your own situation with the aid office.
Anselmian Community Commitment: free tuition for Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont residents with a family income of $100,000 or less
Household income up to $100,000. Covers tuition.
- For an incoming first-year, full-time student who plans to live on campus, with a high school GPA of 3.25 or higher, who files the FAFSA by the February 15 priority deadline. The student and the parents must have lived in Maine, New Hampshire or Vermont for a year. It renews for four years while the student stays eligible.
“Saint Anselm College is pledging to support students from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont with access to a high-quality education tuition-free. This scholarship program is part of the college’s commitment to making a Saint Anselm education affordable to talented, high-achieving students* regardless of their socioeconomic background. To be eligible, the student must: Be a Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont resident^ and plan to be a residential student at Saint Anselm College. Earn a high school GPA of 3.25 or higher. Have a family income of $100,000 or less (Total family income including all taxable and untaxable income).”
How we worked these out
The family
A family of four with good parent credit and $500 a month to put toward college, and the savings you pick. In state, the grants are what Saint Anselm College reports families at that income got, on average. Your own will differ, and a family with no aid pays close to the full price.
What a SmartTuition plan saves
The difference, over four years, between a SmartTuition plan and the standard approach: savings first, then loans for the rest. It counts loan interest and the federal tax credit.
The $7,200 in the “Pay less for college” box near the top of this page is the median saving in Saint Anselm College's own scenarios. Each scenario is a household that lives in New Hampshire, with an income from $45,000 to $200,000 and savings of none, $40,000 or $100,000 in a 529. We price Saint Anselm College at the aid it reports for that income.
Every scenario has parents with good credit and $500 a month toward college. The card above uses the same two. A scenario where the parents would borrow more than $65,000 is left out.
The prices by income
- They describe students who got aid.
- “Over $110,000” has no upper limit, so it averages families just over $110,000 with far wealthier ones. A family at $115,000 should expect to pay less than it shows.
- Each range is reported on its own, so the prices do not always rise with income.
Grants from the college
How many first-year students got a grant from Saint Anselm College, and the average, are the Department of Education's figures for full-time students who started in 2023-24. They cover every income. The prices after grants already count these grants, so don't take them off again. The Department of Education's page for Saint Anselm College →
Where the prices come from
Where the prices come from: Saint Anselm College's own 2026-27 tuition, fees, housing, food and books, from its website, carried forward to 2027 at 4.0% a year. The grants are the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard (2025-26 figures), carried forward the same way. Each price after grants is the cost less those grants. The average price after grants counts the students who get federal aid. Your own figure will be different.
Saint Anselm College's own budget for 2026-27 is $75,970. It also counts costs the college doesn't bill for, such as travel and personal spending. We leave those out.
SmartTuition.ai is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Saint Anselm College. Aid policies change; check current terms with the college's aid office.
Nearby at your income
- University of New Hampshire$21,778 a year
- New England College$25,023 a year
- Saint Anselm College$32,445 a year
- Rivier University$34,021 a year
What each college charges, less the average grant for your income. Every New Hampshire college →