Top 20 US Colleges Student Population Comparison
The total student population of Top 20 US Colleges is 356,758.
The proportion of undergraduate students is 46.95% (167,507 students) and graduate students's proportion is 53.05%(189,251 graduate students). University of California-Los Angeles has the most students of 44,537 among Top 20 US Colleges. By gender, the male-female ratio at Top 20 US Colleges is 49.46% (176,441 male students) to 50.54% (180,317 female students). Below table summarizes and compares the graduation, transfer-out, and retention rate.
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| School Name | Total | Undergraduate | Graduate | |
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| Brown University Providence, RI | 10,257 | 7,043 (68.67%) |
3,214 (31.33%) |
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| California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | 2,233 | 948 (42.45%) |
1,285 (57.55%) |
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| Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | 31,077 | 8,216 (26.44%) |
22,861 (73.56%) |
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| Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 23,600 | 15,182 (64.33%) |
8,418 (35.67%) |
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| Dartmouth College Hanover, NH | 6,572 | 4,418 (67.22%) |
2,154 (32.78%) |
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| Duke University Durham, NC | 16,606 | 6,682 (40.24%) |
9,924 (59.76%) |
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| Harvard University Cambridge, MA | 31,566 | 9,950 (31.52%) |
21,616 (68.48%) |
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| Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | 26,152 | 6,064 (23.19%) |
20,088 (76.81%) |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | 11,574 | 4,602 (39.76%) |
6,972 (60.24%) |
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| Northwestern University Evanston, IL | 22,127 | 8,642 (39.06%) |
13,485 (60.94%) |
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| Princeton University Princeton, NJ | 8,374 | 5,428 (64.82%) |
2,946 (35.18%) |
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| Rice University Houston, TX | 7,124 | 3,992 (56.04%) |
3,132 (43.96%) |
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| Stanford University Stanford, CA | 17,381 | 7,087 (40.77%) |
10,294 (59.23%) |
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| University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA | 44,537 | 31,577 (70.90%) |
12,960 (29.10%) |
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| University of Chicago Chicago, IL | 17,002 | 6,632 (39.01%) |
10,370 (60.99%) |
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| University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN | 12,607 | 8,617 (68.35%) |
3,990 (31.65%) |
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| University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | 25,860 | 11,851 (45.83%) |
14,009 (54.17%) |
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| Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN | 12,824 | 6,861 (53.50%) |
5,963 (46.50%) |
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| Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO | 15,852 | 7,751 (48.90%) |
8,101 (51.10%) |
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| Yale University New Haven, CT | 13,433 | 5,964 (44.40%) |
7,469 (55.60%) |
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| Average | 17,838 | 8,375 (46.95%) | 9,463 (53.05%) |
*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.)
Top 20 US Colleges
Largest Undergraduate Schools
- University of California-Los Angeles 31,577
- Cornell University 15,182
- University of Pennsylvania 11,851
- Harvard University 9,950
- Northwestern University 8,642
Largest Graduate Schools
- Columbia University in the City of New York 22,861
- Harvard University 21,616
- Johns Hopkins University 20,088
- University of Pennsylvania 14,009
- Northwestern University 13,485
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