Top 20 US Colleges 2020 Graduation Rate Comparison

The average graduation rate for Top 20 US Colleges is 94.90%, transfer-out rate is 2.57%, and retention rate is 97.85%. 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 2020 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	96%	-	-	98%	-
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	94%	4%	-	98%	-
Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	95%	2%	-	98%	90%
Cornell University Ithaca, NY	95%	-	-	97%	-
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	95%	-	-	97%	-
Duke University Durham, NC	95%	3%	-	98%	-
Harvard University Cambridge, MA	97%	-	-	99%	-
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	93%	3%	2%	97%	-
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	95%	-	-	99%	-
Northwestern University Evanston, IL	94%	-	-	97%	-
Princeton University Princeton, NJ	98%	-	-	98%	-
Rice University Houston, TX	93%	-	-	97%	-
Stanford University Stanford, CA	94%	1%	-	99%	-
University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	92%	4%	4%	97%	88%
University of Chicago Chicago, IL	95%	1%	-	99%	-
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	96%	-	-	98%	-
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	96%	-	-	98%	89%
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	93%	-	-	97%	100%
Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	95%	-	-	97%	43%
Yale University New Haven, CT	97%	-	-	99%	-
Average	94.90%	2.57%	3.00%	97.85%	82.00%

*The data for academic year 2019-2020 is from IPEDS (The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System),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.)