College Ranking

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1 Harvard University Cambridge, Mass.

1,666 358 21.49%

There’s no such thing as a sure bet. But for getting into a good grad school, a Harvard bachelor’s degree remains the next best thing.

 2 Yale University New Haven, Conn.

1,286 231 17.96%

What happened to school loyalty? More Yalies (40) are going to Harvard Law thisfall than Yale Law (30).

 3 Princeton University Princeton, N.J.

1,103 174 15.78%

One of the few Ivies without its own professional school, Princeton held its first grad-school fair last year.

 4 Stanford University Stanford, Calif.

1,692 181 10.70%

Based on our numbers, does a particularly strong job at spawning future MBA stars; med school could use work.

 5 Williams College Williamstown, Mass.

519 47 9.06%

An up-and-comer for some time, this “Little Ivy” did better than many of the actual Ivies.

 6 Duke University Durham, N.C.

1,615 139 8.61%

Studentsdo well here but may take their time; only 25% of graduates here go immediately to a professional school.

 7 Dartmouth College Hanover, N.H.

1,101 93 8.45%

Recently put its“credentials file” online to help students track recommendation letters from professors.

 8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

1,187 92 7.75%

One of the best on our list at getting kids into business school, including more than two dozen into Harvard Business this fall alone.

 9 Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.

431 33 7.66%

Encourages use of grad-school advising services even after graduation.

 10 Swarthmore College Swarthmore, Pa.

336 25 7.44%

Enrollment hastripled in seven years for an honors program here that’s meant to mimic grad school with small seminars.

 11 Columbia University New York

1,652 118 7.14%

You’d think undergradshere would have an edge getting into itselilte law and medical schools. But several other Ivies sent more students.

 12 Brown University, Providence, R.I.

1,506 98 6.51%

Sixth-ranked Ivy tilted toward law in our figures; no formal pre-law program.

 13 Pomona College, Claremont, Calif.

362 23 6.35%

One of our bigger surprises. Nearly half of undergraduates say they’re going straight to grad school, up from 32% last year.

 14 University of Chicago Chicago

948 59 6.22%

Has 11 of its graduates at Wharton this year; its business school has new program encouraging seniors to return to Chicago for their MBA.

 15 Wellesley College Wellesley, Mass.

585 35 5.98%

Close to the Crimson: Pre-business association has field tripsto Harvard Business, where eight alums started this fall.

 16 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia

2,785 153 5.49%

Penn’s medical school (not one of our survey schools) has the highest percentage of Penn undergrads in six years.

 17 Georgetown University Washington, D.C.

1,666 85 5.10%

Its highest numbers were at Harvard Business and Harvard Law—12 studentseach

this fall.

 18 Haverford College, Haverford, Pa.

291 13 4.47%

Recently reinstated a grad-school orientation program.

 19 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

404 16 3.96%

Now has online service to help kids compile grad-school applications.

 20 Rice University, Houston

764 29 3.80%

President Malcolm Gillis says numbers in “surprising “ findings seem low.

 21 Northwestern University Evanston, Ill.

1,978 73 3.69%

Feeding itself: New option gives incoming freshmen in the undergrad engineering

program a slot in at business grad school, too.

 22 Claremont McKenna College Claremont, Calif.

271 10 3.69%

Aspiring lawyers could do worse: School’s students landed at Chicago, Harvard, Michigan and Yale law schools.

 23 Middlebury College Middlebury, Vt.

660 24 3.64%

Officials say it’s a “feeder” for Dartmouth’s MBA, but our survey turned up only two alumsthere this fall (10 are at Harvard B-school).

 24 Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore

1,272 45 3.54%

Med school remains the most popular grad choice here.

 25 Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

3,565 115 3.23%

Increased funding to advise women and minorities on grad school. Spokesman disputes “lasting meaning” of our survey.

 26 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

310 9 2.90%

Grad-school history: One of the first Ph.D. programs for women in the U.S.

 27 Wesleyan University Middletown, Conn.

731 21 2.87%

Within five yearsof graduating, 80% of Wesleyan grads wind up at some form of graduate or professional school.

 28 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

249 7 2.81%

Lighter on law than most in our top 50.

 29 Morehouse College, Atlanta

501 14 2.79%

Thisall-male, traditionally black college saysit has has actually scaled back student trips to top Northeast grad schools.

 30 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich.

5,720 156 2.73%

Grad schools in our survey “should pay a bit more attention to geographic

diversity,” honors-program chief says.

 31 New College of Florida Sarasota, Fla.

113 3 2.65%

At this “honors college” of the Florida state schools, professorsgiv e “narrative

evaluations” instead of letter grades.

 32 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

581 15 2.58%

Saysit’s good for future doctors, but none at Harvard or Yale this fall.

 33 University of Virginia Charlottesville, Va.

3,213 82 2.55%

The No. 3 public college on our list doesn’t have a university-wide honorsprog ram.

 34 United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.

966 23 2.38%

Chief executives, Army-style: A surprising showing at Harvard Business (13 students this year) boosted West Point’s score.

 35 University of Notre Dame South Bend, Ind.

1,985 45 2.27%

Less success at medical schools than some others in our group.

 36 Emory University, Atlanta

1,509 33 2.19%

Dean says of ranking: “Ivy begets Ivy.”

 37 United States Naval Academy Annapolis, Md.

986 21 2.13%

All business, sir: The bulk of its grad-school students ended up at Harvard, MIT and Wharton business programs.

 38 Macalester College St. Paul, Minn.

406 8 1.97%

Less widely known than some Eastern liberal-arts colleges, it pushes internships in health-care to help med-school prospects.

 39 Brandeis University,Waltham, Mass.

815 16 1.96%

School says it’s bringing in top grad schools for admissions fair.

 40 Bates College, Lewiston, Maine

417 8 1.92%

Taps alumni to help students get key internships.

 41 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif.

6,198 118 1.90%

Saysits kids are accepted to top grad schoolsin far greater numbers than choose to attend.

 42 Barnard College, New York

588 11 1.87%

Placed much lower than Columbia, the Ivy it’saffiliated with.

 43 Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.

485 9 1.86%

Grads of this liberal-arts school seemed to favor MBA programs.

 44 Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa

337 6 1.78%

For kids interested in a specific grad program, networking program ties them with an alum who attended or worked there.

 45 Tufts University, Medford, Mass.

1,246 22 1.77%

Far from tops in Boston, but still edged out Boston College (No. 79).

 46 Colby College, Waterville, Maine

471 8 1.70%

LagsMaine rivals Bates and Bowdoin.

 47 Washington University, St. Louis

1,709 29 1.70%

Made our top 50, but one of the more expensive schools on our list (tuition is $28,300 a year). Says it’s “very successful” at placing students.

 48 Washingtonand Lee, Lexington, Va.

413 7 1.69%

No New Haven: School made our cut—but nobody at Yale Med or Law.

 49 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland

729 12 1.65%

They’re working on it, with new annual conference giving advice on applying to graduate schools.

 50 Reed College, Portland, Ore.

304 5 1.64%

Sure, Carnegie Mellon—No. 51 on our list—had more students (19) get into our top schools, but Reed had slightly higher success rate