Best Colleges: Highest graduation rates
Following are the schools with the highest rates of students who graduate in four years.
| St. Francis Medical Center College of Nursing Peoria, IL | 4-year graduation rate: 92 % |
| Williams College Williamstown, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 91 % |
| Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA | 4-year graduation rate: 91 % |
| Davidson College Davidson, NC | 4-year graduation rate: 91 % |
| Carleton College Northfield, MN | 4-year graduation rate: 91 % |
| Georgetown University Washington, DC | 4-year graduation rate: 90 % |
| University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN | 4-year graduation rate: 90 % |
| Princeton University Princeton, NJ | 4-year graduation rate: 89 % |
| Harvard University Cambridge, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 88 % |
| College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 88 % |
| Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 88 % |
| Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY | 4-year graduation rate: 88 % |
| Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA | 4-year graduation rate: 87 % |
| University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | 4-year graduation rate: 87 % |
| Yale University New Haven, CT | 4-year graduation rate: 87 % |
| Dartmouth College Hanover, NH | 4-year graduation rate: 87 % |
| Haverford College Haverford, PA | 4-year graduation rate: 86 % |
| Northwestern University Evanston, IL | 4-year graduation rate: 86 % |
| Cleveland Institute of Music Cleveland, OH | 4-year graduation rate: 86 % |
| Duke University Durham, NC | 4-year graduation rate: 86 % |
| Pomona College Claremont, CA | 4-year graduation rate: 86 % |
| Columbia University New York, NY | 4-year graduation rate: 86 % |
| Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA | 4-year graduation rate: 86 % |
| Middlebury College Middlebury, VT | 4-year graduation rate: 86 % |
| Brandeis University Waltham, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 85 % |
| Wellesley College Wellesley, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 85 % |
| Colgate University Hamilton, NY | 4-year graduation rate: 85 % |
| Providence College Providence, RI | 4-year graduation rate: 85 % |
| Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN | 4-year graduation rate: 85 % |
| Lafayette College Easton, PA | 4-year graduation rate: 85 % |
| Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA | 4-year graduation rate: 85 % |
| Babson College Babson Park, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 85 % |
| Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 4-year graduation rate: 84 % |
| University of Chicago Chicago, IL | 4-year graduation rate: 84 % |
| Tufts University Medford, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 84 % |
| University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA | 4-year graduation rate: 84 % |
| Wesleyan University Middletown, CT | 4-year graduation rate: 84 % |
| Colby College Waterville, ME | 4-year graduation rate: 84 % |
| College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA | 4-year graduation rate: 84 % |
| Brown University Providence, RI | 4-year graduation rate: 84 % |
| Amherst College Amherst, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 84 % |
| Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | 4-year graduation rate: 84 % |
| Bates College Lewiston, ME | 4-year graduation rate: 83 % |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 83 % |
| Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO | 4-year graduation rate: 83 % |
| Hamilton College Clinton, NY | 4-year graduation rate: 83 % |
| Smith College Northampton, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 83 % |
| Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME | 4-year graduation rate: 83 % |
| Macalester College St. Paul, MN | 4-year graduation rate: 83 % |
| Emory University Atlanta, GA | 4-year graduation rate: 82 % |
| Barnard College New York, NY | 4-year graduation rate: 82 % |
| Kenyon College Gambier, OH | 4-year graduation rate: 82 % |
| United States Naval Academy Annapolis, MD | 4-year graduation rate: 82 % |
| Stonehill College Easton, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 82 % |
| Villanova University Villanova, PA | 4-year graduation rate: 82 % |
| California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | 4-year graduation rate: 82 % |
| St. Olaf College Northfield, MN | 4-year graduation rate: 82 % |
| University of Richmond Univ. of Richmond, VA | 4-year graduation rate: 81 % |
| Grinnell College Grinnell, IA | 4-year graduation rate: 81 % |
| Sacred Heart Major Seminary Detroit, MI | 4-year graduation rate: 80 % |
| Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA | 4-year graduation rate: 80 % |
| Stanford University Stanford, CA | 4-year graduation rate: 80 % |
| Whitman College Walla Walla, WA | 4-year graduation rate: 80 % |
| Dickinson College Carlisle, PA | 4-year graduation rate: 79 % |
| Wheaton College Norton, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 79 % |
| Trinity College Hartford, CT | 4-year graduation rate: 79 % |
| Furman University Greenville, SC | 4-year graduation rate: 79 % |
| Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN | 4-year graduation rate: 79 % |
| Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster, PA | 4-year graduation rate: 79 % |
| Union College Schenectady, NY | 4-year graduation rate: 79 % |
| Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC | 4-year graduation rate: 79 % |
| Illinois Wesleyan University Bloomington, IL | 4-year graduation rate: 79 % |
| Susquehanna University Selinsgrove, PA | 4-year graduation rate: 79 % |
| Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA | 4-year graduation rate: 79 % |
| Wheaton College Wheaton, IL | 4-year graduation rate: 78 % |
| Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY | 4-year graduation rate: 78 % |
| Bentley University Waltham, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 78 % |
| Muhlenberg College Allentown, PA | 4-year graduation rate: 78 % |
| Connecticut College New London, CT | 4-year graduation rate: 78 % |
| Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 78 % |
| Grove City College Grove City, PA | 4-year graduation rate: 78 % |
| New York University New York, NY | 4-year graduation rate: 78 % |
| Rice University Houston, TX | 4-year graduation rate: 78 % |
| DePauw University Greencastle, IN | 4-year graduation rate: 78 % |
| Fairfield University Fairfield, CT | 4-year graduation rate: 78 % |
| Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA | 4-year graduation rate: 77 % |
| Loyola College in Maryland Baltimore, MD | 4-year graduation rate: 77 % |
| Gettysburg College Gettysburg, PA | 4-year graduation rate: 77 % |
| Cooper Union New York, NY | 4-year graduation rate: 76 % |
| College of St. Benedict St. Joseph, MN | 4-year graduation rate: 76 % |
| Occidental College Los Angeles, CA | 4-year graduation rate: 76 % |
| Boston University Boston, MA | 4-year graduation rate: 76 % |
| Fordham University New York, NY | 4-year graduation rate: 76 % |
| Austin College Sherman, TX | 4-year graduation rate: 75 % |
| St. Mary's College of Maryland St. Mary's City, MD | 4-year graduation rate: 75 % |
| Siena College Loudonville, NY | 4-year graduation rate: 74 % |
| United States Air Force Academy USAF Academy, CO | 4-year graduation rate: 74 % |
| Denison University Granville, OH | 4-year graduation rate: 74 % |
| Pepperdine University Malibu, CA | 4-year graduation rate: 74 % |
| Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO | 4-year graduation rate: 74 % |
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