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
School (Reset Sort)  | RR | GR | Yield | E | E/S | CR |
| Princeton University | 98% | 90% | 67% | $11,200 | $1,622,013 | 310 |
| Stanford University | 98% | 77% | 67% | $12,200 | $826,950 | 325 |
| Yale University | 98% | 88% | 70% | $15,200 | $1,333,567 | 300 |
| Harvard University | 98% | 86% | 78% | $25,900 | $1,367,765 | 373 |
| University of North Carolina | 95% | 67% | 59% | $1,400 | $54,346 | 162 |
| California Institute of Technology | 98% | 77% | 42% | $1,365 | $621,019 | 85 |
| Rice University | 96% | 76% | 37% | $3,600 | $696,594 | 137 |
| Duke University | 87% | 88% | 43% | $3,800 | $276,323 | 2,009 |
| Columbia University | 98% | 85% | 60% | $5,200 | $325,142 | 370 |
| University of California | 96% | 53% | 43% | $2,000 | $59,732 | 625 |
| Dartmouth College | 98% | 88% | 49% | $2,100 | $365,090 | 300 |
| Williams College | 97% | 91% | 49% | $1,300 | $628,019 | 100 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 98% | 81% | 67% | $6,700 | $667,131 | 481 |
| University of Michigan | 96% | 67% | 45% | $4,900 | $122,521 | 1,000 |
| University of Pennsylvania | 98% | 86% | 65% | $4,400 | $233,868 | 566 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 96% | 84% | 29% | $2,000 | $333,333 | 224 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 96% | 83% | 34% | $4,400 | $333,991 | 400 |
| University of Virginia | 97% | 83% | 53% | $2,200 | $107,134 | 450 |
| University of California (UCLA) | 97% | 57% | 39% | $1,390 | $39,018 | 396 |
| Amherst College | 97% | 88% | 37% | $1,200 | $739,372 | 38 |
| University of Notre Dame | 98% | 88% | 56% | $3,700 | $327,695 | 340 |
| Northwestern University | 97% | 84% | 41% | $4,200 | $248,948 | 350 |
| Brown University | 97% | 83% | 57% | $1,436 | $174,845 | 400 |
| Cornell University | 96% | 85% | 47% | $3,900 | $200,896 | 468 |
| University of Southern California | 95% | 61% | 33% | $2,700 | $84,475 | 600 |
| University of Chicago | 96% | 82% | 33% | $4,000 | $291,609 | 300 |
| University of Texas | 93% | 39% | 56% | $2,200 | $44,400 | 300 |
| Emory University | 94% | 78% | 29% | $4,400 | $370,870 | 250 |
| Middlebury College | 96% | 84% | 45% | $665 | $270,794 | 50 |
| University of Florida | 94% | 51% | 57% | $670 | $13,697 | 300 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 92% | 26% | 39% | $1,200 | $70,410 | 593 |
| Carleton College | 97% | 87% | 37% | $540 | $275,651 | 32 |
| University of Wisconsin | 94% | 43% | 42% | $1,120 | $27,001 | 900 |
| Vanderbilt University | 95% | 80% | 39% | $2,159 | $189,936 | 250 |
| Georgetown University | 98% | 89% | 47% | $621 | $45,994 | 121 |
| University of Maryland | 93% | 46% | 38% | $329 | $9,524 | 331 |
| Bowdoin College | 97% | 83% | 39% | $578 | $347,059 | 350 |
| Pomona College | 98% | 81% | 40% | $1,300 | $848,564 | 165 |
| Penn State University | 93% | 48% | 35% | $1,200 | $29,679 | 997 |
| Washington and Lee University | 95% | 87% | 41% | $532 | $244,373 | 31 |
| Macalaster College | 94% | 84% | 26% | $525 | $334,608 | 54 |
| Swarthmore College | 96% | 82% | 42% | $1,200 | $811,359 | 65 |
| Tufts University | 95% | 84% | 31% | $881 | $94,708 | 150 |
| University of Illinois | 93% | 58% | 60% | $800 | $19,325 | 4,611 |
| Brandeis University | 94% | 84% | 26% | $519 | $106,615 | 60 |
| New York University | 93% | 72% | 37% | $1,500 | $38,035 | 700 |
| Oberlin College | 92% | 64% | 33% | $550 | $192,039 | 18 |
| Case Western Reserve University | 92% | 57% | 24% | $1,500 | $161,970 | 93 |
| Ohio State University | 90% | 31% | 46% | $1,700 | $33,661 | 300 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 94% | 65% | 23% | $838 | $83,608 | 956 |
| Cooper Union | 97% | 69% | 74% | $261 | $260,518 | 110 |
| Wake Forest University | 93% | 75% | 39% | $907 | $136,690 | 160 |
| University of Kansas | 82% | 26% | 58% | $1,200 | $43,768 | 500 |
| Texas A&M University | 89% | 32% | 57% | $5,000 | $112,055 | 150 |
| University of Washington | 93% | 42% | 48% | $963 | $24,591 | 600 |
| University of Minnesota | 87% | 29% | 36% | $1,501 | $29,782 | 200 |
| Davidson College | 96% | 90% | 40% | $382 | $227,094 | 280 |
| Wesleyan University | 96% | 83% | 38% | $565 | $186,251 | 60 |
| Kenyon College | 92% | 81% | 32% | $158 | $95,184 | 40 |
| University of Georgia | 93% | 41% | 59% | $517 | $15,652 | 1,409 |
| University of Iowa | 84% | 36% | 35% | $314 | $11,039 | 272 |
| Iowa State University | 86% | 29% | 59% | $457 | $17,738 | 250 |
| Wellesley College | 94% | 85% | 41% | $1,300 | $557,701 | 124 |
| U.S. Naval Academy | 97% | 86% | 81% | $0 | $0 | 0 |
| Haverford College | 97% | 86% | 39% | $895 | $766,010 | 172 |
| Grinnell College | 92% | 81% | 28% | $1,400 | $887,762 | 113 |
| Vassar College | 96% | 81% | 36% | $671 | $282,338 | 14 |
| Brigham Young University | 95% | 27% | 79% | $44 | $1,292 | 500 |
| U.S. Air Force Academy | 89% | 77% | 79% | $0 | $0 | 0 |
| Boston University | 91% | 62% | 24% | $712 | $23,483 | 325 |
| University of Oklahoma | 85% | 20% | 51% | $560 | $18,919 | 1,450 |
| University of Arizona | 79% | 31% | 38% | $348 | $9,634 | 250 |
| Boston College | 96% | 87% | 30% | $1,200 | $87,241 | 300 |
| University of Alabama | 86% | 33% | 48% | $409 | $18,976 | 596 |
| Tulane University | 86% | 62% | 20% | $782 | $61,618 | 134 |
| Rutgers | 89% | 22% | 34% | $496 | $15,102 | 300 |
| Purdue University | 85% | 31% | 35% | $1,217 | $31,612 | 546 |
| Bates College | 94% | 79% | 39% | $208 | $119,942 | 70 |
| Michigan State University | 91% | 36% | 45% | $910 | $20,704 | 250 |
| Arizona State University | 79% | 28% | 43% | $248 | $5,934 | 928 |
| University of Arkansas | 81% | 27% | 52% | $692 | $38,951 | 200 |
| Louisiana State University | 83% | 25% | 63% | $269 | $8,689 | 952 |
| University of Miami | 89% | 53% | 26% | $526 | $33,863 | 350 |
| College of New Jersey | 95% | 60% | 38% | $7 | $1,039 | 800 |
| Florida State University | 89% | 42% | 43% | $441 | $11,452 | 125 |
| University of Kentucky | 79% | 28% | 44% | $538 | $21,336 | 200 |
| Bucknell University | 95% | 84% | 33% | $472 | $131,394 | 639 |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | 81% | 34% | 26% | $226 | $41,786 | 63 |
| Trinity University | 89% | 65% | 27% | $733 | $266,074 | 100 |
| Smith College | 89% | 78% | 37% | $1,000 | $323,729 | 58 |
| Bryn Mawr College | 92% | 76% | 39% | $495 | $279,932 | 175 |
| University of Nebraska | 84% | 22% | 63% | $180 | $8,589 | 261 |
| University of Colorado | 83% | 36% | 34% | $248 | $8,084 | 400 |
| University of Missouri | 84% | 38% | 46% | $443 | $16,136 | 1,500 |
| Villanova University | 94% | 81% | 31% | $241 | $23,532 | 330 |
| Abilene Christian University | 73% | 28% | 51% | $190 | $40,695 | 165 |
| Reed College | 85% | 65% | 30% | $352 | $262,687 | 45 |
| Indiana University | 87% | 41% | 37% | $660 | $17,621 | 100 |
| University of Mississippi | 81% | 34% | 44% | $240 | $16,414 | 150 |
| Oklahoma State University | 79% | 25% | 58% | $196 | $8,501 | 460 |
| University of Tennessee | 80% | 27% | 47% | $385 | $12,561 | 533 |
| Wheaton College | 95% | 71% | 53% | $260 | $92,166 | 30 |
| University of South Carolina | 83% | 40% | 42% | $302 | $11,898 | 16,351 |
| Lincoln University | 68% | 25% | 33% | $19 | $8,548 | 48 |
| North Dakota State University | 77% | 18% | 60% | $0 | $31 | 93 |
| Mount Holyoke College | 94% | 75% | 33% | $461 | $216,643 | 47 |
| St. Augustine's College | 62% | 18% | 27% | $17 | $11,451 | 20 |
| University of Oregon | 84% | 38% | 35% | $304 | $15,269 | 175 |
| Florida Southern College | 67% | 43% | 35% | $64 | $33,316 | 90 |
| College of the Atlantic | 86% | 40% | 44% | $10 | $32,051 | 0 |
| Gonzaga University | 90% | 55% | 31% | $116 | $18,835 | 100 |
| Sarah Lawrence College | 91% | 66% | 32% | $53 | $32,065 | 40 |
| North Central College | 79% | 51% | 32% | $62 | $25,350 | 18 |
| Methodist College | 66% | 20% | 30% | $10 | $4,627 | 180 |
| Adams State College | 57% | 25% | 48% | $62 | $19,987 | 85 |
| University of Cincinnati | 79% | 14% | 35% | $987 | $36,158 | 125 |
| Hollins University | 79% | 61% | 31% | $101 | $92,168 | 14 |
| Temple University | 84% | 26% | 35% | $195 | $6,043 | 269 |
| Rhode Island School of Design | 93% | 18% | 48% | $243 | $107,206 | 0 |
| Juilliard School | 94% | 73% | 71% | $478 | $591,708 | 0 |
| Tuskegee University | 71% | 23% | 45% | $0 | $0 | 75 |
| Culinary Institute of America | 95% | 75% | 82% | $43 | $15,997 | 75 |
| St. John's College (Md) | 82% | 70% | 39% | $57 | $100,708 | 5 |
| San Diego State University | 84% | 10% | 26% | $87 | $2,648 | 125 |
| New School University | 78% | 46% | 76% | $151 | $136,191 | 0 |
| DePaul University | 85% | 37% | 35% | $198 | $8,613 | 144 |