College rankings on TheClassroom.com use recent data about four-year colleges from publicly available sources using transparent methodology. This is a ranking of colleges by enrollment yield in descending order. Only colleges that are selective and highgrad are included. See if your school is in the ranking!
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Rank | College | Enrollment Yield | Acceptance Rate | Graduation Rate | # Students |
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1 | College of the Ozarks | 94.8% | 14.2% | 63.0% | 1,499 |
2 | United States Military Academy | 87.9% | 9.7% | 82.0% | 4,389 |
3 | Robert Morris University Illinois | 86.6% | 23.1% | 79.0% | 2,253 |
4 | Stanford University | 82.1% | 4.8% | 95.0% | 7,034 |
5 | Harvard University | 78.8% | 5.4% | 98.0% | 7,151 |
6 | United States Air Force Academy | 74.7% | 15.1% | 84.0% | 4,237 |
7 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 73.5% | 7.9% | 91.0% | 4,476 |
8 | United States Merchant Marine Academy | 73.4% | 20.3% | 72.0% | 904 |
9 | Yale University | 68.8% | 6.3% | 96.0% | 5,469 |
10 | Princeton University | 68.3% | 6.5% | 97.0% | 5,251 |
11 | University of Pennsylvania | 67.8% | 9.4% | 96.0% | 10,468 |
12 | University of Chicago | 63.7% | 7.9% | 93.0% | 5,967 |
13 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 61.6% | 6.8% | 95.0% | 7,552 |
14 | University of Notre Dame | 56.0% | 18.7% | 96.0% | 8,514 |
15 | Brown University | 55.8% | 9.3% | 96.0% | 6,565 |
16 | Pomona College | 53.7% | 9.4% | 93.0% | 1,556 |
17 | Claremont McKenna College | 53.6% | 9.4% | 90.0% | 1,346 |
18 | Northwestern University | 53.0% | 10.7% | 93.0% | 8,298 |
19 | Cornell University | 52.3% | 14.1% | 93.0% | 14,556 |
20 | Dartmouth College | 51.2% | 10.6% | 95.0% | 4,270 |
21 | Duke University | 50.2% | 10.8% | 95.0% | 6,577 |
22 | Barnard College | 50.0% | 16.7% | 89.0% | 2,461 |
23 | Bowdoin College | 49.9% | 14.8% | 93.0% | 1,801 |
24 | Pitzer College | 47.1% | 13.7% | 84.0% | 1,029 |
25 | Georgetown University | 46.7% | 16.8% | 95.0% | 7,056 |
26 | Tufts University | 46.2% | 14.3% | 92.0% | 5,435 |
27 | Vanderbilt University | 45.9% | 10.7% | 93.0% | 6,817 |
28 | Davidson College | 45.5% | 20.1% | 93.0% | 1,796 |
29 | Williams College | 45.0% | 17.6% | 95.0% | 2,058 |
30 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 44.9% | 26.9% | 90.0% | 17,869 |
31 | University of California-Berkeley | 43.9% | 16.9% | 91.0% | 28,108 |
32 | Middlebury College | 42.6% | 16.1% | 94.0% | 2,506 |
33 | Wellesley College | 42.5% | 28.6% | 91.0% | 2,347 |
33 | California Institute of Technology | 42.5% | 8.1% | 92.0% | 979 |
35 | Colorado College | 42.2% | 16.0% | 86.0% | 2,084 |
36 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 42.1% | 28.6% | 91.0% | 27,969 |
37 | Swarthmore College | 42.0% | 12.8% | 94.0% | 1,542 |
38 | Amherst College | 41.0% | 13.7% | 94.0% | 1,849 |
39 | Harvey Mudd College | 40.1% | 12.9% | 90.0% | 829 |
39 | Haverford College | 40.1% | 21.4% | 94.0% | 1,268 |
41 | Bates College | 39.9% | 22.6% | 88.0% | 1,780 |
42 | Washington and Lee University | 38.7% | 23.6% | 88.0% | 1,824 |
42 | Carleton College | 38.7% | 22.6% | 93.0% | 2,087 |
44 | California Institute of the Arts | 38.6% | 23.6% | 63.0% | 943 |
45 | Johns Hopkins University | 38.2% | 12.8% | 93.0% | 5,621 |
46 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 38.1% | 29.9% | 94.0% | 15,476 |
47 | University of California-Los Angeles | 37.4% | 18.0% | 91.0% | 30,343 |
48 | Washington University in St Louis | 36.6% | 16.5% | 95.0% | 6,915 |
49 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 36.5% | 25.8% | 82.0% | 13,815 |
50 | Wesleyan University | 36.4% | 17.8% | 93.0% | 2,918 |
51 | Lehigh University | 35.7% | 26.1% | 87.0% | 5,003 |
52 | Rice University | 35.2% | 15.3% | 91.0% | 3,836 |
53 | Hamilton College | 34.6% | 26.1% | 91.0% | 1,868 |
54 | University of Southern California | 34.0% | 16.6% | 91.0% | 18,195 |
55 | Carnegie Mellon University | 33.7% | 21.7% | 88.0% | 6,069 |
56 | Vassar College | 33.5% | 26.9% | 92.0% | 2,405 |
56 | American University | 33.5% | 25.9% | 82.0% | 7,544 |
58 | Oberlin College | 31.9% | 28.0% | 88.0% | 2,869 |
59 | Colgate University | 31.7% | 28.8% | 92.0% | 2,864 |
60 | Babson College | 31.3% | 24.6% | 90.0% | 2,283 |
61 | California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo | 30.5% | 29.5% | 75.0% | 19,703 |
62 | Bucknell University | 30.3% | 29.9% | 89.0% | 3,530 |
63 | Scripps College | 29.9% | 29.9% | 87.0% | 1,030 |
64 | American Musical and Dramatic Academy | 28.9% | 21.9% | 66.0% | 1,565 |
65 | Kenyon College | 28.6% | 26.6% | 89.0% | 1,689 |
66 | Lafayette College | 28.2% | 28.3% | 90.0% | 2,505 |
67 | Grinnell College | 27.8% | 20.2% | 89.0% | 1,658 |
68 | Colby College | 27.7% | 18.7% | 90.0% | 1,879 |
69 | Emory University | 26.9% | 25.3% | 91.0% | 6,714 |
70 | Skidmore College | 26.7% | 29.1% | 87.0% | 2,643 |
71 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 22.7% | 25.5% | 83.0% | 6,487 |
72 | Boston University | 21.0% | 29.4% | 85.0% | 16,628 |
73 | Northeastern University | 18.1% | 28.9% | 82.0% | 13,444 |