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% 83% 63% $4,292 $228,031 370 33 Bryn Mawr College 91% 77% 35% $433 $254,407 159 34 Georgetown Univ. 97% 89% 46% $685 $54,989 627 35 Wesleyan Univ. 95% 86% 40% $520 $162,907 60 36 Grinnell College 92% 77% 28% $1,024 $787,087 113 37 Univ. of Michigan 96% 64% 42% $3,469 $89,013 999 38 Cooper Union 92% 42% 70% $138 $155,405 80 39 Northwestern Univ. 96% 84% 43% $3,256 $225,798 375 40 Wake Forest Univ. 93% 76% 41% $812 $126,677 160 41 Emory Univ. 93% 83% 32% $4,315 $381,285 210 42 Johns Hopkins 95% 81% 36% $1,822 $341,839 268 43 Coll.of New Jersey 94% 64% 41% $518 $79,680 518 44 Oberlin College 89% 63% 38% $595 $207,245 49 45 Univ. of North Carolina 95% 67% 57% $1,045 $40,149 200 46 Juilliard School 94% 63% 83% $0 $0 0 47 Vanderbilt Univ. 94% 78% 35% $2,159 $201,550 250 48 Smith College 90% 76% 42% $917 $293,816 58 49 Univ. of California 95% 51% 42% $1,953 $58,923 630 50 Hollins Univ. 80% 65% 37% $84 $80,000 14 51 RISD 93% 82% 49% $224 $101,633 0 52 Univ. of Chicago 95% 83% 33% $3,516 $266,829 300 53 Macalaster College 92% 77% 27% $500 $282,646 97 54 Wheaton College 94% 76% 53% $260 $90,529 30 55 Tufts Univ. 97% 81% 34% $548 $58,100 150 56 Wash. U. in St. Louis 96% 79% 29% $3,951 $309,470 250 57 Boston College 95% 82% 34% $1,003 $74,241 300 58 Brandeis Univ. 93% 80% 33% $397 $81,822 60 59 Culinary Inst. of America 0% 0% 93% $37 $16,129 75 60 Tuskegee Univ. 72% 22% 49% $0 $0 75 61 Villanova Univ. 94% 80% 31% $169 $16,112 325 62 Univ. of Mississippi 76% 33% 44% $240 $18,983 150 63 Sarah Lawrence 91% 65% 30% $47 $30,206 40 64 Trinity Univ. 87% 64% 31% $649 $247,615 100 65 Abilene Christian Univ. 76% 28% 50% $135 $31,056 165 66 UCLA 97% 47% 41% $1,390 $36,969 396 67 Univ. of Illinois 92% 56% 49% $601 $15,025 999 68 Penn State Univ. 92% 44% 38% $750 $18,096 300 69 Carnegie Mellon 94% 65% 25% $756 $92,004 956 69 Univ. of Florida 92% 50% 56% $635 $13,404 300 71 Florida Southern 71% 48% 38% $62 $34,444 68 72 Georgia Tech. 89% 23% 43% $1,093 $74,369 800 73 Lincoln Univ. 64% 30% 26% $0 $0 48 74 Louisiana State Univ. 83% 23% 66% $184 $6,401 513 75 Univ. of Missouri 84% 35% 49% $381 $16,847 475 76 Univ. of Oklahoma 82% 20% 60% $424 $17,369 209 77 Univ. of Alabama 83% 36% 43% $349 $17,821 596 78 Reed College 86% 0% 29% $295 $220,478 12 79 Univ. of Georgia 91% 42% 51% $396 $12,021 687 80 Univ. of Wisconsin 91% 41% 43% $1,120 $27,395 900 81 Rutgers 88% 44% 35% $373 $13,925 125 82 St. Augustine's College 63% 13% 53% $18 $11,984 0 83 USC 94% 57% 32% $2,086 $67,988 664 84 Univ. of Kansas 79% 26% 63% $665 $23,585 200 85 Michigan State Univ. 89% 36% 41% $448 $10,058 250 86 Methodist College 63% 18% 29% $9 $4,165 180 87 Univ. of Tennessee 77% 28% 65% $385 $13,764 533 88 Brigham Young Univ. 92% 31% 79% $44 $1,492 500 89 Univ. of Minnesota 83% 26% 47% $1,501 $41,225 200 90 Univ. of Maryland 91% 41% 39% $324 $9,326 331 91 Gonzaga Univ. 90% 62% 36% $111 $22,470 97 92 North Dakota State 75% 14% 87% $50 $4,552 185 93 College of the Atlantic 71% 0% 43% $9 $34,351 0 94 New School Univ. 78% 36% 33% $93 $137,371 0 95 Iowa State Univ. 84% 28% 46% $368 $14,378 230 96 Univ. of Washington 90% 40% 44% $927 $23,620 600 97 New York Univ. 91% 70% 42% $1,118 $29,737 700 98 Indiana Univ. 88% 46% 41% $479 $13,770 100 99 Case Western Reserve Univ. 91% 52% 24% $1,434 $160,188 175 100 Purdue Univ. 88% 29% 36% $1,217 $31,558 800 101 Oklahoma State 83% 22% 63% $168 $7,307 460 101 Univ. of Iowa 84% 38% 38% $635 $21,383 272 103 Univ. of Kentucky 79% 27% 51% $419 $16,770 200 104 Univ. of Nebraska 81% 18% 61% $629 $27,362 261 105 Univ. of Texas 91% 39% 59% $1,463 $27,994 300 106 Univ. of Miami 84% 53% 30% $457 $30,511 99 107 Univ. of Arkansas 81% 22% 52% $500 $31,260 200 108 St. John's College (Md) 0% 0% 31% $52 $93,190 11 109 Texas A&M Univ. 89% 30% 59% $3,764 $83,490 150 110 Illinois Inst. of Tech. 86% 34% 24% $204 $35,953 58 111 Ohio State Univ. 85% 25% 42% $956 $19,245 300 112 Florida State Univ. 86% 40% 43% $329 $10,700 125 113 North Central College 77% 57% 33% $48 $18,721 18 114 Adams State College 0% 0% 39% $8 $3,735 78 115 Tulane Univ. 85% 63% 21% $638 $50,004 125 116 Univ. of South Carolina 82% 33% 42% $302 $12,013 125 117 Boston Univ. 87% 62% 29% $585 $22,137 500 118 Univ. of Cincinnati 73% 14% 45% $909 $41,724 125 119 Univ. of Oregon 83% 38% 39% $246 $11,994 180 120 Univ. of Colorado 83% 39% 35% $204 $6,584 400 121 Arizona State Univ. 76% 26% 41% $207 $5,381 100 122 DePaul Univ. 83% 43% 33% $198 $11,112 100 123 Univ. of Arizona 77% 29% 34% $310 $8,413 250 124 Temple Univ. 79% 20% 29% $141 $4,358 500 125 San Diego State 77% 7% 26% $59 $2,121 125 126