Quality of Life -- Ranking and Data
Quality of Life is sort of a hodgepodge category intended to capture how much students want to go to a particular school, how much they want to stay there, and how good the school is at keeping them there once they are in. It also measures the relative prestige of the school in terms of wealth, as well as the job opportunities available to students once they graduate by the number of companies recruiting on campus (both in terms of absolute numbers and per student). Relative acreage per campus was also taken into account, although there wasn't room to include that data below. The categories are:
RR Retention Rate is the percentage of freshman coming back for sophomore year
GR Graduation Rate in four years
Yield The percentage of applicants attending out of the pool who were accepted
E Endowment of the school, in millions
E/S Endowment per student (counting undergrads and graduate students)
CR Companies recruiting on campus
Schools RR GR Yield E E/S CR Rank Princeton Univ. 98% 92% 73% $8,359 $1,231,075 300 1 Williams College 97% 92% 48% $1,207 $592,829 100 2 Amherst College 97% 85% 43% $890 $545,677 51 3 Stanford Univ. 98% 77% 69% $8,249 $450,839 500 4 Duke Univ. 97% 87% 44% $3,131 $276,688 200 5 Univ. of Notre Dame 98% 88% 58% $2,829 $250,111 351 6 Davidson College 96% 87% 40% $318 $190,078 229 7 Wellesley College 96% 87% 44% $1,135 $494,769 124 8 Pomona College 99% 84% 39% $1,099 $703,585 165 9 Swarthmore 96% 86% 40% $949 $641,650 49 10 Dartmouth College 96% 87% 51% $2,414 $442,287 300 11 Harvard Univ. 97% 86% 79% $17,950 $1,056,069 373 12 Haverford College 95% 86% 37% $311 $273,286 172 13 Yale Univ. 98% 88% 65% $10,700 $858,748 300 14 Washington & Lee 94% 85% 46% $438 $205,827 66 15 Bowdoin College 95% 83% 41% $433 $267,119 325 16 Cal. Tech. 96% 72% 45% $1,365 $663,265 130 17 MIT 98% 82% 57% $6,134 $605,050 950 18 Rice Univ. 96% 75% 42% $3,243 $677,743 272 19 Carleton College 95% 82% 35% $543 $281,056 49 19 Middlebury College 96% 82% 41% $627 $276,211 50 21 Brown Univ. 97% 83% 59% $1,436 $192,700 400 22 Cornell Univ. 96% 82% 49% $3,151 $162,255 830 23 Univ. of Virginia 97% 83% 54% $1,708 $73,799 450 24 Univ. of Penn. 97% 86% 62% $3,381 $166,593 626 25 Vassar College 94% 81% 36% $616 $249,191 14 26 Bucknell Univ. 94% 84% 31% $428 $120,360 256 27 U.S. Naval Acad. 95% 85% 83% $0 $0 0 28 U.S. Air Force Acad. 88% 80% 79% $0 $0 0 29 Mount Holyoke 91% 76% 38% $388 $197,255 50 30 Kenyon College 91% 80% 30% $127 $81,515 65 31 Bates College 94% 82% 37% $173 $97,906 70 32 Columbia Univ. 98%