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Graduation Rate Comparison

The average graduation rate of Top 100 Colleges by Forbes is 86.38% where 267,785 students out of 310,022 candidates have complete their courses and degrees. The rate is calculated as the total number of completers within 150% of normal time (for example, 6 years for 4 years BS program) divided by the candidates. The numbers in parenthesis() represent data by gender (men/women) for each cell respectively. The following table compares the graduation rates between Top 100 Colleges by Forbes.
Among the Top 100 Colleges by Forbes, Princeton University has the most highest graduation rate of 97.61%, while University of Utah has the lowest rate of 65.05%.
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Graduation Rate Comparison Between Top 100 Colleges By Forbes
RankName Graduation Rate
(Men/Women)		Completers
(Men/Women)		Candidates
(Men/Women)
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
96.41%
(95.58% / 97.26%)		1,073
(541 / 532)		 1,113
(566 / 547)
2Columbia University in the City of New York
96.10%
(94.72% / 97.31%)		1,478
(682 / 796)		 1,538
(720 / 818)
3Princeton University
97.61%
(96.93% / 98.32%)		1,306
(662 / 644)		 1,338
(683 / 655)
4Stanford University
91.92%
(91.22% / 92.65%)		1,559
(790 / 769)		 1,696
(866 / 830)
5University of California-Berkeley
92.84%
(91.91% / 93.56%)		5,559
(2,420 / 3,139)		 5,988
(2,633 / 3,355)
6Harvard University
97.58%
(96.65% / 98.53%)		1,613
(808 / 805)		 1,653
(836 / 817)
7Williams College
93.61%
(91.05% / 96.00%)		498
(234 / 264)		 532
(257 / 275)
8Johns Hopkins University
93.78%
(92.35% / 95.01%)		1,327
(604 / 723)		 1,415
(654 / 761)
9Yale University
95.74%
(94.87% / 96.59%)		1,505
(740 / 765)		 1,572
(780 / 792)
10University of Pennsylvania
96.54%
(95.05% / 97.77%)		2,374
(1,057 / 1,317)		 2,459
(1,112 / 1,347)
11Vanderbilt University
93.54%
(91.25% / 95.72%)		1,491
(709 / 782)		 1,594
(777 / 817)
12Rice University
94.64%
(92.83% / 96.67%)		901
(466 / 435)		 952
(502 / 450)
13University of Chicago
95.85%
(94.40% / 97.38%)		1,733
(877 / 856)		 1,808
(929 / 879)
14Cornell University
95.38%
(94.30% / 96.29%)		3,135
(1,423 / 1,712)		 3,287
(1,509 / 1,778)
15University of California-Los Angeles
92.62%
(91.97% / 93.05%)		5,772
(2,292 / 3,480)		 6,232
(2,492 / 3,740)
16Northwestern University
95.13%
(93.38% / 96.63%)		1,835
(832 / 1,003)		 1,929
(891 / 1,038)
17Dartmouth College
95.54%
(94.74% / 96.35%)		1,113
(558 / 555)		 1,165
(589 / 576)
18Brown University
95.69%
(95.89% / 95.51%)		1,576
(746 / 830)		 1,647
(778 / 869)
19Amherst College
93.90%
(90.72% / 96.86%)		462
(215 / 247)		 492
(237 / 255)
20University of California-San Diego
86.05%
(83.97% / 87.97%)		5,766
(2,708 / 3,058)		 6,701
(3,225 / 3,476)
21University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
93.20%
(91.93% / 94.43%)		6,207
(3,017 / 3,190)		 6,660
(3,282 / 3,378)
22Duke University
96.78%
(94.96% / 98.46%)		1,684
(791 / 893)		 1,740
(833 / 907)
23Swarthmore College
92.27%
(92.23% / 92.31%)		382
(190 / 192)		 414
(206 / 208)
24California Institute of Technology
94.37%
(92.74% / 96.26%)		218
(115 / 103)		 231
(124 / 107)
25Washington University in St Louis
94.26%
(93.65% / 94.82%)		1,675
(796 / 879)		 1,777
(850 / 927)
26Claremont McKenna College
91.36%
(86.25% / 96.34%)		296
(138 / 158)		 324
(160 / 164)
27Emory University
91.09%
(89.68% / 92.11%)		1,298
(539 / 759)		 1,425
(601 / 824)
28University of Southern California
91.83%
(90.19% / 93.43%)		3,113
(1,507 / 1,606)		 3,390
(1,671 / 1,719)
29Wellesley College
91.53%
(0.00% / 91.53%)		562
(0 / 562)		 614
(0 / 614)
30University of Florida
91.09%
(89.25% / 92.31%)		6,100
(2,391 / 3,709)		 6,697
(2,679 / 4,018)
31University of California-Irvine
86.87%
(84.80% / 89.01%)		5,020
(2,494 / 2,526)		 5,779
(2,941 / 2,838)
32Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
94.02%
(93.86% / 94.25%)		2,923
(1,727 / 1,196)		 3,109
(1,840 / 1,269)
33University of Notre Dame
95.17%
(93.90% / 96.56%)		1,970
(1,016 / 954)		 2,070
(1,082 / 988)
34University of Virginia-Main Campus
95.60%
(93.23% / 97.43%)		3,631
(1,543 / 2,088)		 3,798
(1,655 / 2,143)
35University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
91.17%
(89.54% / 92.19%)		3,936
(1,481 / 2,455)		 4,317
(1,654 / 2,663)
36Pomona College
93.20%
(93.09% / 93.30%)		384
(175 / 209)		 412
(188 / 224)
37University of Maryland-College Park
88.68%
(87.02% / 90.49%)		5,328
(2,721 / 2,607)		 6,008
(3,127 / 2,881)
38University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
85.13%
(82.90% / 87.72%)		6,464
(3,385 / 3,079)		 7,593
(4,083 / 3,510)
39Bowdoin College
95.28%
(95.47% / 95.09%)		484
(232 / 252)		 508
(243 / 265)
40Brigham Young University
80.98%
(77.83% / 83.31%)		3,602
(1,471 / 2,131)		 4,448
(1,890 / 2,558)
41Georgetown University
94.81%
(93.52% / 95.77%)		1,533
(649 / 884)		 1,617
(694 / 923)
42University of California-Santa Barbara
83.03%
(79.94% / 85.41%)		4,221
(1,769 / 2,452)		 5,084
(2,213 / 2,871)
43Carnegie Mellon University
94.13%
(93.03% / 95.24%)		1,475
(734 / 741)		 1,567
(789 / 778)
44University of California-Davis
85.67%
(83.84% / 86.69%)		5,394
(1,883 / 3,511)		 6,296
(2,246 / 4,050)
45Boston University
88.66%
(86.28% / 90.49%)		3,191
(1,346 / 1,845)		 3,599
(1,560 / 2,039)
46The University of Texas at Austin
88.90%
(86.72% / 90.61%)		7,838
(3,369 / 4,469)		 8,817
(3,885 / 4,932)
47Washington and Lee University
93.88%
(96.12% / 92.16%)		445
(198 / 247)		 474
(206 / 268)
48Colgate University
91.17%
(91.01% / 91.29%)		743
(324 / 419)		 815
(356 / 459)
49New York University
87.78%
(86.82% / 88.51%)		5,353
(2,280 / 3,073)		 6,098
(2,626 / 3,472)
50University of Washington-Seattle Campus
85.18%
(82.93% / 86.99%)		6,040
(2,623 / 3,417)		 7,091
(3,163 / 3,928)
51Wesleyan University
92.64%
(88.76% / 95.74%)		743
(316 / 427)		 802
(356 / 446)
52Middlebury College
91.40%
(91.44% / 91.37%)		574
(267 / 307)		 628
(292 / 336)
53University of Wisconsin-Madison
89.55%
(88.15% / 90.80%)		6,135
(2,857 / 3,278)		 6,851
(3,241 / 3,610)
54Boston College
90.83%
(89.86% / 91.71%)		2,110
(992 / 1,118)		 2,323
(1,104 / 1,219)
55California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
86.40%
(84.23% / 88.47%)		3,787
(1,800 / 1,987)		 4,383
(2,137 / 2,246)
56Haverford College
89.64%
(90.29% / 89.01%)		320
(158 / 162)		 357
(175 / 182)
57University of Georgia
89.57%
(87.08% / 91.09%)		5,049
(1,860 / 3,189)		 5,637
(2,136 / 3,501)
58Tufts University
93.63%
(93.87% / 93.44%)		1,441
(643 / 798)		 1,539
(685 / 854)
59Davidson College
91.07%
(89.20% / 92.83%)		469
(223 / 246)		 515
(250 / 265)
60William & Mary
89.42%
(88.24% / 90.28%)		1,378
(570 / 808)		 1,541
(646 / 895)
61Texas A & M University-College Station
83.91%
(80.67% / 87.36%)		8,435
(4,177 / 4,258)		 10,052
(5,178 / 4,874)
62Purdue University-Main Campus
83.10%
(81.05% / 85.80%)		7,024
(3,887 / 3,137)		 8,452
(4,796 / 3,656)
63University of California-Santa Cruz
75.09%
(73.96% / 76.35%)		2,764
(1,434 / 1,330)		 3,681
(1,939 / 1,742)
64Lehigh University
87.91%
(85.22% / 90.83%)		1,120
(565 / 555)		 1,274
(663 / 611)
65Santa Clara University
87.92%
(85.19% / 90.94%)		1,223
(621 / 602)		 1,391
(729 / 662)
66North Carolina State University at Raleigh
85.34%
(82.99% / 87.75%)		4,121
(2,030 / 2,091)		 4,829
(2,446 / 2,383)
67George Washington University
83.98%
(81.85% / 85.19%)		2,380
(839 / 1,541)		 2,834
(1,025 / 1,809)
68Binghamton University
81.62%
(80.14% / 83.05%)		2,372
(1,142 / 1,230)		 2,906
(1,425 / 1,481)
69University of Rochester
85.43%
(85.31% / 85.56%)		1,290
(668 / 622)		 1,510
(783 / 727)
70Rutgers University-New Brunswick
83.91%
(81.48% / 86.33%)		5,691
(2,755 / 2,936)		 6,782
(3,381 / 3,401)
71Colby College
88.79%
(88.00% / 89.51%)		515
(242 / 273)		 580
(275 / 305)
72Florida State University
85.61%
(81.23% / 88.36%)		5,324
(1,947 / 3,377)		 6,219
(2,397 / 3,822)
73Hamilton College
90.63%
(90.60% / 90.65%)		435
(212 / 223)		 480
(234 / 246)
74College of the Holy Cross
87.33%
(85.58% / 89.04%)		758
(368 / 390)		 868
(430 / 438)
75Villanova University
91.86%
(91.22% / 92.45%)		1,547
(727 / 820)		 1,684
(797 / 887)
76University of Miami
83.68%
(79.47% / 87.58%)		1,959
(894 / 1,065)		 2,341
(1,125 / 1,216)
77University of California-Riverside
75.96%
(73.44% / 77.91%)		3,441
(1,452 / 1,989)		 4,530
(1,977 / 2,553)
78University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
85.29%
(83.43% / 86.75%)		5,083
(2,195 / 2,888)		 5,960
(2,631 / 3,329)
79Michigan State University
81.17%
(77.77% / 84.24%)		6,753
(3,075 / 3,678)		 8,320
(3,954 / 4,366)
80Stony Brook University
75.56%
(72.49% / 78.74%)		2,548
(1,244 / 1,304)		 3,372
(1,716 / 1,656)
81Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
86.35%
(83.35% / 90.00%)		5,339
(2,828 / 2,511)		 6,183
(3,393 / 2,790)
82Trinity University
83.97%
(82.40% / 85.51%)		576
(281 / 295)		 686
(341 / 345)
83Ohio State University-Main Campus
87.74%
(85.81% / 89.52%)		6,958
(3,260 / 3,698)		 7,930
(3,799 / 4,131)
84Harvey Mudd College
91.88%
(90.99% / 92.68%)		215
(101 / 114)		 234
(111 / 123)
85Bucknell University
86.32%
(82.71% / 89.51%)		839
(378 / 461)		 972
(457 / 515)
86Clemson University
86.56%
(82.82% / 89.86%)		3,273
(1,465 / 1,808)		 3,781
(1,769 / 2,012)
87San Diego State University
76.43%
(71.55% / 79.96%)		4,315
(1,698 / 2,617)		 5,646
(2,373 / 3,273)
88Trinity College
83.77%
(82.19% / 85.37%)		485
(240 / 245)		 579
(292 / 287)
89Smith College
89.05%
(100.00% / 89.02%)		545
(2 / 543)		 612
(2 / 610)
90CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
72.12%
(67.22% / 78.59%)		1,213
(644 / 569)		 1,682
(958 / 724)
91Lafayette College
87.59%
(87.40% / 87.77%)		642
(319 / 323)		 733
(365 / 368)
92University of Richmond
85.20%
(80.94% / 89.23%)		708
(327 / 381)		 831
(404 / 427)
93University of Colorado Boulder
74.19%
(71.46% / 77.23%)		4,895
(2,484 / 2,411)		 6,598
(3,476 / 3,122)
94Indiana University-Bloomington
80.21%
(77.68% / 82.76%)		6,458
(3,140 / 3,318)		 8,051
(4,042 / 4,009)
95Babson College
93.12%
(91.40% / 94.98%)		501
(255 / 246)		 538
(279 / 259)
96University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus
75.33%
(72.57% / 77.59%)		2,868
(1,241 / 1,627)		 3,807
(1,710 / 2,097)
97California State University-Long Beach
68.88%
(65.37% / 71.40%)		3,342
(1,325 / 2,017)		 4,852
(2,027 / 2,825)
98Wake Forest University
89.15%
(86.77% / 91.49%)		1,266
(610 / 656)		 1,420
(703 / 717)
99University of Utah
65.05%
(61.86% / 68.38%)		2,485
(1,205 / 1,280)		 3,820
(1,948 / 1,872)
100Bates College
89.69%
(89.55% / 89.84%)		487
(257 / 230)		 543
(287 / 256)
Average86.38%
(84.16% / 88.34%)		 267,785
(122,488 / 145,297)		 310,022
(145,542 / 164,480)
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Transfer-out Rate Comparison

The average transfer-out rate of Top 100 Colleges by Forbes is 6.81% where 13,000 students have transferred out from schools out of 190,961 graduation candidates. The transfer-out rate is calculated as the number of transfer-out students divided by total number of graduation candidates. The following table compares the transfer-out rates between Top 100 Colleges by Forbes.
Among the Top 100 Colleges by Forbes, Harvard University has the lowest transfer-out rate of 0.06%, while University of Colorado Boulder has the highest rate of 15.85% (more students transferred out from the school).
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Transfer-out Rate Comparison Between Top 100 Colleges By Forbes
RankNameTransfer-out Rate
(Men/Women)		Transfer-out
(Men/Women)		Total Students
(Men/Women)
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
2Columbia University in the City of New York
0.46%
(0.42% / 0.49%)		7
(3 / 4)		1,538
(720 / 818)
3Princeton University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
4Stanford University
0.71%
(0.92% / 0.48%)		12
(8 / 4)		1,696
(866 / 830)
5University of California-Berkeley
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
6Harvard University
0.06%
(0.12% / 0.00%)		1
(1 / 0)		1,653
(836 / 817)
7Williams College
0.94%
(1.56% / 0.36%)		5
(4 / 1)		532
(257 / 275)
8Johns Hopkins University
3.11%
(3.36% / 2.89%)		44
(22 / 22)		1,415
(654 / 761)
9Yale University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
10University of Pennsylvania
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
11Vanderbilt University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
12Rice University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
13University of Chicago
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
14Cornell University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
15University of California-Los Angeles
3.35%
(3.49% / 3.26%)		209
(87 / 122)		6,232
(2,492 / 3,740)
16Northwestern University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
17Dartmouth College
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
18Brown University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
19Amherst College
2.85%
(4.22% / 1.57%)		14
(10 / 4)		492
(237 / 255)
20University of California-San Diego
3.66%
(3.78% / 3.54%)		245
(122 / 123)		6,701
(3,225 / 3,476)
21University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
22Duke University
1.03%
(1.56% / 0.55%)		18
(13 / 5)		1,740
(833 / 907)
23Swarthmore College
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
24California Institute of Technology
3.46%
(4.84% / 1.87%)		8
(6 / 2)		231
(124 / 107)
25Washington University in St Louis
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
26Claremont McKenna College
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
27Emory University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
28University of Southern California
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
29Wellesley College
0.16%
(0.00% / 0.16%)		1
(0 / 1)		614
(0 / 614)
30University of Florida
5.12%
(5.41% / 4.93%)		343
(145 / 198)		6,697
(2,679 / 4,018)
31University of California-Irvine
4.59%
(4.35% / 4.83%)		265
(128 / 137)		5,779
(2,941 / 2,838)
32Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
3.57%
(3.48% / 3.70%)		111
(64 / 47)		3,109
(1,840 / 1,269)
33University of Notre Dame
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
34University of Virginia-Main Campus
2.26%
(3.26% / 1.49%)		86
(54 / 32)		3,798
(1,655 / 2,143)
35University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5.12%
(5.38% / 4.96%)		221
(89 / 132)		4,317
(1,654 / 2,663)
36Pomona College
2.18%
(1.60% / 2.68%)		9
(3 / 6)		412
(188 / 224)
37University of Maryland-College Park
7.66%
(7.74% / 7.57%)		460
(242 / 218)		6,008
(3,127 / 2,881)
38University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
39Bowdoin College
3.15%
(1.65% / 4.53%)		16
(4 / 12)		508
(243 / 265)
40Brigham Young University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
41Georgetown University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
42University of California-Santa Barbara
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
43Carnegie Mellon University
1.91%
(2.15% / 1.67%)		30
(17 / 13)		1,567
(789 / 778)
44University of California-Davis
4.94%
(3.87% / 5.53%)		311
(87 / 224)		6,296
(2,246 / 4,050)
45Boston University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
46The University of Texas at Austin
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
47Washington and Lee University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
48Colgate University
6.50%
(6.18% / 6.75%)		53
(22 / 31)		815
(356 / 459)
49New York University
5.07%
(4.11% / 5.79%)		309
(108 / 201)		6,098
(2,626 / 3,472)
50University of Washington-Seattle Campus
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
51Wesleyan University
4.61%
(7.58% / 2.24%)		37
(27 / 10)		802
(356 / 446)
52Middlebury College
4.62%
(4.11% / 5.06%)		29
(12 / 17)		628
(292 / 336)
53University of Wisconsin-Madison
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
54Boston College
7.15%
(7.34% / 6.97%)		166
(81 / 85)		2,323
(1,104 / 1,219)
55California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
1.32%
(1.08% / 1.56%)		58
(23 / 35)		4,383
(2,137 / 2,246)
56Haverford College
6.72%
(6.86% / 6.59%)		24
(12 / 12)		357
(175 / 182)
57University of Georgia
6.83%
(7.49% / 6.43%)		385
(160 / 225)		5,637
(2,136 / 3,501)
58Tufts University
4.48%
(4.53% / 4.45%)		69
(31 / 38)		1,539
(685 / 854)
59Davidson College
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
60William & Mary
7.27%
(8.20% / 6.59%)		112
(53 / 59)		1,541
(646 / 895)
61Texas A & M University-College Station
9.67%
(12.28% / 6.89%)		972
(636 / 336)		10,052
(5,178 / 4,874)
62Purdue University-Main Campus
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
63University of California-Santa Cruz
9.67%
(9.44% / 9.93%)		356
(183 / 173)		3,681
(1,939 / 1,742)
64Lehigh University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
65Santa Clara University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
66North Carolina State University at Raleigh
9.26%
(9.93% / 8.56%)		447
(243 / 204)		4,829
(2,446 / 2,383)
67George Washington University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
68Binghamton University
13.63%
(13.82% / 13.44%)		396
(197 / 199)		2,906
(1,425 / 1,481)
69University of Rochester
3.97%
(4.21% / 3.71%)		60
(33 / 27)		1,510
(783 / 727)
70Rutgers University-New Brunswick
8.49%
(9.41% / 7.59%)		576
(318 / 258)		6,782
(3,381 / 3,401)
71Colby College
6.55%
(6.91% / 6.23%)		38
(19 / 19)		580
(275 / 305)
72Florida State University
4.74%
(5.30% / 4.40%)		295
(127 / 168)		6,219
(2,397 / 3,822)
73Hamilton College
6.46%
(6.41% / 6.50%)		31
(15 / 16)		480
(234 / 246)
74College of the Holy Cross
5.76%
(6.74% / 4.79%)		50
(29 / 21)		868
(430 / 438)
75Villanova University
7.42%
(8.41% / 6.54%)		125
(67 / 58)		1,684
(797 / 887)
76University of Miami
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
77University of California-Riverside
9.38%
(8.95% / 9.71%)		425
(177 / 248)		4,530
(1,977 / 2,553)
78University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
8.83%
(9.08% / 8.62%)		526
(239 / 287)		5,960
(2,631 / 3,329)
79Michigan State University
10.48%
(11.51% / 9.55%)		872
(455 / 417)		8,320
(3,954 / 4,366)
80Stony Brook University
13.79%
(13.40% / 14.19%)		465
(230 / 235)		3,372
(1,716 / 1,656)
81Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
82Trinity University
13.85%
(14.96% / 12.75%)		95
(51 / 44)		686
(341 / 345)
83Ohio State University-Main Campus
7.06%
(7.19% / 6.95%)		560
(273 / 287)		7,930
(3,799 / 4,131)
84Harvey Mudd College
5.56%
(5.41% / 5.69%)		13
(6 / 7)		234
(111 / 123)
85Bucknell University
7.10%
(6.78% / 7.38%)		69
(31 / 38)		972
(457 / 515)
86Clemson University
9.15%
(10.34% / 8.10%)		346
(183 / 163)		3,781
(1,769 / 2,012)
87San Diego State University
1.79%
(1.69% / 1.86%)		101
(40 / 61)		5,646
(2,373 / 3,273)
88Trinity College
8.81%
(7.88% / 9.76%)		51
(23 / 28)		579
(292 / 287)
89Smith College
7.03%
(0.00% / 7.05%)		43
(0 / 43)		612
(2 / 610)
90CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
14.51%
(15.87% / 12.71%)		244
(152 / 92)		1,682
(958 / 724)
91Lafayette College
9.96%
(10.14% / 9.78%)		73
(37 / 36)		733
(365 / 368)
92University of Richmond
13.72%
(17.82% / 9.84%)		114
(72 / 42)		831
(404 / 427)
93University of Colorado Boulder
15.85%
(16.05% / 15.63%)		1,046
(558 / 488)		6,598
(3,476 / 3,122)
94Indiana University-Bloomington
9.94%
(10.56% / 9.30%)		800
(427 / 373)		8,051
(4,042 / 4,009)
95Babson College
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
96University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
97California State University-Long Beach
2.33%
(2.17% / 2.44%)		113
(44 / 69)		4,852
(2,027 / 2,825)
98Wake Forest University
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
99University of Utah
No transfer-out information available at the school or no students transferred out.
100Bates College
7.37%
(7.67% / 7.03%)		40
(22 / 18)		543
(287 / 256)
Average6.81%
(7.38% / 6.31%)		13,000
(6,525 / 6,475)		 190,961
(88,385 / 102,576)
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Retention Rate Comparison

The average retention rate of Top 100 Colleges by Forbes is 94.67% for full-time students and 73.14% for part-time students. Retention rate is the percentage of a school's first-time, first-year undergraduate students who continue at that school the next year (Sophomore year). The following table compares the retention rates between Top 100 Colleges by Forbes.
Among the Top 100 Colleges by Forbes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology has the most highest retention rate of 99%, while University of Utah has the lowest rate of 86%.
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Retention Rate Comparison Between Top 100 Colleges By Forbes
RankNameFull-timePart-time
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
99%-
2 Columbia University in the City of New York
98%95%
3 Princeton University
98%-
4 Stanford University
98%-
5 University of California-Berkeley
97%81%
6 Harvard University
98%-
7 Williams College
97%-
8 Johns Hopkins University
98%-
9 Yale University
99%-
10 University of Pennsylvania
99%-
11 Vanderbilt University
96%100%
12 Rice University
97%-
13 University of Chicago
99%-
14 Cornell University
98%-
15 University of California-Los Angeles
97%83%
16 Northwestern University
98%-
17 Dartmouth College
98%-
18 Brown University
99%-
19 Amherst College
97%-
20 University of California-San Diego
94%84%
21 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
97%80%
22 Duke University
98%-
23 Swarthmore College
94%-
24 California Institute of Technology
97%-
25 Washington University in St Louis
95%60%
26 Claremont McKenna College
98%-
27 Emory University
96%100%
28 University of Southern California
96%67%
29 Wellesley College
96%-
30 University of Florida
98%72%
31 University of California-Irvine
94%68%
32 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
98%100%
33 University of Notre Dame
99%-
34 University of Virginia-Main Campus
98%-
35 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
97%100%
36 Pomona College
98%-
37 University of Maryland-College Park
96%90%
38 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
95%44%
39 Bowdoin College
97%-
40 Brigham Young University
91%72%
41 Georgetown University
97%100%
42 University of California-Santa Barbara
93%41%
43 Carnegie Mellon University
98%-
44 University of California-Davis
93%83%
45 Boston University
95%-
46 The University of Texas at Austin
97%90%
47 Washington and Lee University
97%-
48 Colgate University
93%-
49 New York University
96%64%
50 University of Washington-Seattle Campus
95%87%
51 Wesleyan University
95%-
52 Middlebury College
94%-
53 University of Wisconsin-Madison
96%81%
54 Boston College
96%-
55 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
96%60%
56 Haverford College
94%-
57 University of Georgia
94%96%
58 Tufts University
95%-
59 Davidson College
95%-
60 William & Mary
95%-
61 Texas A & M University-College Station
94%92%
62 Purdue University-Main Campus
93%58%
63 University of California-Santa Cruz
88%31%
64 Lehigh University
94%-
65 Santa Clara University
94%50%
66 North Carolina State University at Raleigh
94%95%
67 George Washington University
92%73%
68 Binghamton University
89%86%
69 University of Rochester
91%-
70 Rutgers University-New Brunswick
93%82%
71 Colby College
94%-
72 Florida State University
96%92%
73 Hamilton College
95%-
74 College of the Holy Cross
95%-
75 Villanova University
95%77%
76 University of Miami
94%-
77 University of California-Riverside
88%54%
78 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
91%67%
79 Michigan State University
90%65%
80 Stony Brook University
90%50%
81 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
93%56%
82 Trinity University
93%-
83 Ohio State University-Main Campus
94%31%
84 Harvey Mudd College
96%-
85 Bucknell University
94%-
86 Clemson University
93%80%
87 San Diego State University
91%79%
88 Trinity College
90%50%
89 Smith College
94%-
90 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
89%65%
91 Lafayette College
90%-
92 University of Richmond
91%-
93 University of Colorado Boulder
90%60%
94 Indiana University-Bloomington
91%63%
95 Babson College
95%-
96 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus
90%77%
97 California State University-Long Beach
87%62%
98 Wake Forest University
93%-
99 University of Utah
86%64%
100 Bates College
91%-
Average94.67% 73.14%
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