Graduation Rates

Largest private colleges for "A" students

School Name

Four-year grad rate

Annual cost of attendance

% getting grants

Notre Dame

90.0%

$57,800

61%

Georgetown

88.9

60,100

51

U. of Pennsylvania

88.6

59,600

48

Boston College

87.2

59,000

47

Harvard

87.1

59,000

70

Duke

86.8

59,300

54

Northwestern

86.3

60,840

56

Cornell

85.9

59,600

55

Washington U. (St. Louis)

85.9

62,600

48

Vanderbilt

85.1

61,600

61

Columbia

84.6

62,600

53

Emory

82.4

58,200

57

New York University

79.3

62,900

55

Stanford

78.4

59,800

60

U. of Southern California

71.7

60,000

62

Largest private colleges for "B" students

School name

Four-year grad rate

Annual cost of attendance

% getting grants

Syracuse

71.6%

$55,600

71%

Loyola Marymount

71.1

56,900

86

Quinnipiac

69.9

54,000

84

Ithaca College

69.5

53,600

88

Duquesne

63.3

42,800

100

U. of St. Thomas

61.2

46,600

97

U. of Dayton

58.1

46,200

98

U. of San Francisco

55.8

56,600

70

Texas Christian U.

54.1

48,300

69

Baylor

50.4

51,200

96

Howard

47.8

41,500

68

DePaul

47.6

47,000

88

The New School

47.4

58,100

97

Hofstra

43.8

54,000

91

St. John's (New York)

36.4

55,500

95

Nation's largest public universities

School name

Four-year grad rate

Annual cost (in-state)

% getting grants

U. of Ill. Urbana-Champaign

67.4%

$29,000

46%

Penn. State (main campus)

62.3

28,100

37

U. of Florida

59.4

20,600

98

U. of Wash., Seattle

53.9

26,100

33

U. of Texas, Austin

52.5

24,900

54

Florida State

50.2

21,000

95

U. of Wisconsin, Madison

49.7

24,200

55

Indiana U., Bloomington

49.5

23,100

53

Ohio State (main campus)

48.6

24,900

70

Michigan State

48.5

24,700

48

Texas A&M

46.2

20,900

61

U. of Minnesota, Twin Cities

45.8

24,700

88

Purdue (main campus)

38.1

23,500

47

U. of Central Florida

34.8

20,300

95

Arizona State

32.3

23,000

83