Top 100 Grateful Grad Colleges

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1 Princeton University

29,330

46%

100.0

2 Dartmouth College

27,464

44%

100.0

3 Williams College

23,346

53%

99.9

4 Claremont McKenna College

22,459

42%

99.8

5 Bowdoin College

19,598

44%

99.4

6 Amherst College

18,752

52%

99.0

7 Davidson College

18,044

48%

98.6

8 Wellesley College

17,958

47%

98.5

9 Brown University

21,694

29%

97.4

10 Stanford University

30,826

28%

97.0

11 Duke University

28,521

28%

96.8

12 Yale University

30,033

28%

96.7

13 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

36,763

25%

95.1

14 University of Notre Dame

15,319

37%

94.8

15 Bryn Mawr College

16,272

30%

94.7

16 California Institute of Technology

56,706

24%

94.5

17 Carleton College

14,876

50%

93.6

18 Haverford College

14,463

43%

92.2

19 University of Pennsylvania

16,614

24%

91.6

20 Harvard University

25,122

19%

91.4

21 University of Chicago

16,683

24%

91.4

22 Middlebury College

14,033

42%

90.6

23 Washington and Lee University

14,018

38%

90.5

24 Johns Hopkins University

22,194

16%

89.2

25 Pomona College

13,415

40%

87.7

26 Vassar College

13,813

30%

87.7

27 Rice University

14,638

24%

87.3

28 Columbia University in the City of New York

20,047

13%

87.2

29 Mills College

16,922

15%

86.8

30 Swarthmore College

13,139

39%

86.2

31 Washington University in St Louis

14,376

21%

84.6

32 Northwestern University

15,200

16%

84.3

33 Trinity College

12,772

42%

84.0

34 Brandeis University

14,045

22%

83.8

35 Colby College

12,092

39%

79.2

36 Berea College

13,531

17%

78.7

37 University of Rochester

13,683

15%

78.3

38 University of Southern California

12,729

24%

77.9

39 Reed College

12,089

26%

74.5

40 Cornell University

12,551

19%

73.8

41 Smith College

11,555

32%

73.8

42 Hamilton College

11,426

46%

73.7

43 Kenyon College

11,206

37%

71.7

44 Colgate University

10,690

40%

66.8

45 Wake Forest University

11,403

22%

66.6

46 Wofford College

11,216

24%

66.1

47 Vanderbilt University

11,407

19%

64.8

48 Case Western Reserve University

10,552

15%

54.6

49 Wesleyan University

9,358

41%

53.6

50 University of Tulsa

10,268

18%

53.3

51 Sewanee-The University of the South

9,305

31%

51.9

52 Whitman College

9,069

38%

50.9

53 Carnegie Mellon University

9,949

17%

49.7

54 University of Miami

9,952

16%

49.0

55 Oberlin College

9,229

27%

48.9

56 Yeshiva University

9,966

11%

46.4

57 DePauw University

8,580

30%

44.5

58 Lafayette College

8,102

33%

42.0

59 Tufts University

8,850

20%

40.7

60 Lawrence University

8,160

30%

40.5

61 Mount Holyoke College

8,173

29%

40.4

62 Hampden-Sydney College

8,104

30%

40.3

63 Emory University

8,700

21%

39.7

64 Connecticut College

7,911

32%

39.7

65 John Brown University

8,897

16%

39.0

66 Centre College

7,555

45%

38.2

67 The College of Wooster

8,255

23%

37.2

68 Austin College

8,508

18%

36.5

69 College of the Holy Cross

7,297

49%

36.5

70 St Lawrence University

7,890

26%

36.3

71 Thomas Jefferson University

8,770

12%

35.1

72 Beloit College

7,947

23%

35.0

73 Franklin and Marshall College

7,582

27%

34.6

74 Bates College

6,949

46%

34.3

75 Union College

7,457

36%

34.2

76 Occidental College

6,894

33%

33.9

77 Randolph-Macon College

6,738

37%

33.1

78 Knox College

6,869

31%

32.2

79 Macalester College

6,440

33%

31.4

80 Skidmore College

6,780

30%

31.3

81 Westmont College

7,722

19%

30.9

82 Wheaton College (Illinois)

7,191

25%

30.6

83 Rhodes College

6,127

33%

29.6

84 Hobart William Smith Colleges

6,331

30%

29.2

85 Southwestern University

7,322

20%

28.9

86 Grinnell College

5,821

33%

28.8

87 Catawba College

7,239

20%

28.2

88 Denison University

7,246

20%

28.1

89 Wheaton College (Norton, Mass)

6,620

22%

27.3

90 Bucknell University

5,924

30%

27.0

91 Hendrix College

6,880

21%

26.4

92 Augustana College

5,556

16%

25.9

93 University of Dubuque

7,731

11%

25.9

94 Earlham College

6,695

21%

25.7

95 Boston College

6,773

21%

25.7

96 Lehigh University

6,835

19%

24.8

97 Furman University

5,965

26%

24.8

98 Dickinson College

4,886

32%

24.7

99 Saint Johns University (Collegeville, MN)

5,753

23%

22.6

7,078

13%

22.6

100 Valparaiso University

Sources: Forbes, National Center For Education Statistics, Council For Aid To Education