Highest 4-Year Graduation Rates Rankings - US National Universities and Colleges 2016

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School 4-year graduation rate

Carleton College

(Northfield, MN)

91%

Georgetown University

(Washington, DC)

91%

University of Notre Dame

(Notre Dame, IN)

91%

Colgate University

(Hamilton, NY)

90%

College of the Holy Cross

(Worcester, MA)

90%

Columbia University

(New York, NY)

90%

Davidson College

(Davidson, NC)

90%

Harvey Mudd College

(Claremont, CA)

90%

Pomona College

(Claremont, CA)

90%

Princeton University

(Princeton, NJ)

90%

Washington University in St. Louis

(St. Louis, MO)

90%

Kenyon College

(Gambier, OH)

89%

Middlebury College

(Middlebury, VT)

89%

Swarthmore College

(Swarthmore, PA)

89%

United States Naval Academy

(Annapolis, MD)

89%

Boston College

(Chestnut Hill, MA)

88%

Dartmouth College

(Hanover, NH)

88%

Haverford College

(Haverford, PA)

88%

Johns Hopkins University

(Baltimore, MD)

88%

Lafayette College

(Easton, PA)

88%

Tufts University

(Medford, MA)

88%

Vanderbilt University

(Nashville, TN)

88%

Vassar College

(Poughkeepsie, NY)

88%

Williams College

(Williamstown, MA)

88%

Amherst College

(Amherst, MA)

87%

Cornell University

(Ithaca, NY)

87%

Duke University

(Durham, NC)

87%

University of Chicago

(Chicago, IL)

87%

University of Pennsylvania

(Philadelphia, PA)

87%

University of Virginia

(Charlottesville, VA)

87%

Wesleyan University

(Middletown, CT)

87%

Yale University

(New Haven, CT)

87%

Bowdoin College

(Brunswick, ME)

86%

Hamilton College

(Clinton, NY)

86%

Harvard University

(Cambridge, MA)

86%

St. Olaf College

(Northfield, MN)

86%

Webb Institute

(Glen Cove, NY)

86%

Brandeis University

(Waltham, MA)

85%

Bucknell University

(Lewisburg, PA)

85%

California Institute of Technology

(Pasadena, CA)

85%

Colby College

(Waterville, ME)

85%

Grinnell College

(Grinnell, IA)

85%

Macalester College

(St. Paul, MN)

85%

Northwestern University

(Evanston, IL)

85%

Skidmore College

(Saratoga Springs, NY)

85%

Villanova University

(Villanova, PA)

85%

Washington and Lee University

(Lexington, VA)

85%

Brown University

(Providence, RI)

84%

Emory University

(Atlanta, GA)

84%

United States Coast Guard Academy

(New London, CT)

84%

Bates College

(Lewiston, ME)

83%

Bentley University

(Waltham, MA)

83%

College of William and Mary

(Williamsburg, VA)

83%

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

(Needham, MA)

83%

Providence College

(Providence, RI)

83%

United States Air Force Academy

(USAF Academy, CO)

83%

Wake Forest University

(Winston-Salem, NC)

83%

Babson College

(Babson Park, MA)

82%

Barnard College

(New York, NY)

82%

Franklin and Marshall College

(Lancaster, PA)

82%

Rice University

(Houston, TX)

82%

Smith College

(Northampton, MA)

82%

Wellesley College

(Wellesley, MA)

82%

Whitman College

(Walla Walla, WA)

82%

Colorado College

(Colorado Springs, CO)

81%

Dickinson College

(Carlisle, PA)

81%

Gustavus Adolphus College

(St. Peter, MN)

81%

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(Cambridge, MA)

81%

Muhlenberg College

(Allentown, PA)

81%

University of North Carolina—​Chapel Hill

(Chapel Hill, NC)

81%

Boston University

(Boston, MA)

80%

Centre College

(Danville, KY)

80%

Claremont McKenna College

(Claremont, CA)

80%

Furman University

(Greenville, SC)

80%

Gettysburg College

(Gettysburg, PA)

80%

Occidental College

(Los Angeles, CA)

80%

Pitzer College

(Claremont, CA)

80%

Scripps College

(Claremont, CA)

80%

St. Lawrence University

(Canton, NY)

80%

Union College

(Schenectady, NY)

80%

University of Richmond

(Univ. of Richmond, VA)

80%

Wheaton College

(Wheaton, IL)

80%

Denison University

(Granville, OH)

79%

Stonehill College

(Easton, MA)

79%

Trinity College

(Hartford, CT)

79%

Ursinus College

(Collegeville, PA)

79%

Connecticut College

(New London, CT)

78%

Santa Clara University

(Santa Clara, CA)

78%

St. Mary's College

(Notre Dame, IN)

78%

United States Military Academy

(West Point, NY)

78%

Emerson College

(Boston, MA)

77%

Fairfield University

(Fairfield, CT)

77%

Grove City College

(Grove City, PA)

77%

Kalamazoo College

(Kalamazoo, MI)

77%

Loyola University Maryland

(Baltimore, MD)

77%

American University

(Washington, DC)

76%

Bryn Mawr College

(Bryn Mawr, PA)

76%

Elon University

(Elon, NC)

76%

Lehigh University

(Bethlehem, PA)

76%

Mount Holyoke College

(South Hadley, MA)

76%

Oberlin College

(Oberlin, OH)

76%

Principia College

(Elsah, IL)

76%

Rhodes College

(Memphis, TN)

76%

Sewanee—​University of the South

(Sewanee, TN)

76%

Stanford University

(Stanford, CA)

76%

University of Michigan—​Ann Arbor

(Ann Arbor, MI)

76%

University of Southern California

(Los Angeles, CA)

76%

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