Top 20 US Colleges 2021 Graduation Rate Comparison

The average graduation rate for Top 20 US Colleges is 95.10%, transfer-out rate is 3.00%, and retention rate is 92.35%. Below table summarizes and compares the graduation, transfer-out, and retention rate. You want to click a column name to sort table by the column.

Top 20 US Colleges 2021 Graduation Rate Comparison

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Graduation, Transfer-out, Retention Rate Comparison Table
School Name	Graduation Rate	Transfer-out Rate	Transfer-out Rate (BS degree)	Retention Rate (Full-time)	Retention Rate (Part-time)
Brown University Providence, RI	95%	-	-	92%	-
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	92%	4%	-	94%	-
Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	96%	2%	-	95%	87%
Cornell University Ithaca, NY	95%	-	-	96%	-
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	95%	-	-	96%	-
Duke University Durham, NC	96%	-	-	97%	-
Harvard University Cambridge, MA	98%	-	-	76%	-
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	94%	2%	2%	97%	-
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	96%	-	-	98%	-
Northwestern University Evanston, IL	95%	-	-	97%	-
Princeton University Princeton, NJ	98%	-	-	83%	-
Rice University Houston, TX	94%	-	-	97%	-
Stanford University Stanford, CA	95%	-	-	86%	-
University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	91%	4%	4%	96%	73%
University of Chicago Chicago, IL	96%	-	-	100%	-
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	97%	-	-	97%	-
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	96%	-	-	95%	94%
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	93%	-	-	96%	100%
Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	94%	-	-	94%	50%
Yale University New Haven, CT	96%	-	-	65%	-
Average	95.10%	3.00%	3.00%	92.35%	80.80%

*The tuition data is updated with academic year 2020-2021 data from National Center For Education Statistics (March 2, 2021),U.S. Department of Education.

**Information is not available for schools that are not appeared in the table. The schools have not report the information to the IPEDS or not applicable.)