On January 17, 1887, successful American businessman Jonas Gilman Clark announced his intention to found and endow a university in the city of Worcester, filing a petition in the Massachusetts Legislature requesting a charter for Clark University.[19] An Act of Incorporation was duly enacted by the legislature and signed by the governor on March 31 of that same year. Clark, who was a friend of Leland Stanford, was probably inspired by the plans for Stanford Universityand founded the University with an endowment of one million dollars, and later added another million dollars because he feared the university might someday face a lack of funds.[20] Opening on October 2, 1889, Clark was the first all-graduate university in the United States, with departments in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology.

Undergraduate

Total Avg cost tuition Per Year $ 45000
Total Avg cost of living per year $ 10000
Application Fee $ 60
Total Cost $ 55060

Graduate