USNews.com: America's Best Colleges 2008: Highest graduation rates

Highest graduation rates

Following are the schools with the highest rates of students who graduate in four years.

School	Percent
Haverford College (PA)	92%
Williams College (MA)	91%
Duke University (NC)	90%
Georgetown University (DC)	90%
University of Notre Dame (IN)	90%
College of the Holy Cross (MA)	89%
Davidson College (NC)	89%
Princeton University (NJ)	89%
Amherst College (MA)	88%
Boston College	88%
Carleton College (MN)	88%
Lafayette College (PA)	88%
Middlebury College (VT)	88%
Wellesley College (MA)	88%
Yale University (CT)	88%
Harvard University (MA)	87%
Pomona College (CA)	87%
Tufts University (MA)	87%
United States Naval Academy (MD)*	87%
University of Pennsylvania	87%
Bates College (ME)	86%
Columbia University (NY)	86%
Dartmouth College (NH)	86%
Grinnell College (IA)	86%
Northwestern University (IL)	86%
Swarthmore College (PA)	86%
Bucknell University (PA)	85%
Kenyon College (OH)	85%
Vassar College (NY)	85%
Bowdoin College (ME)	84%
Brandeis University (MA)	84%
Colby College (ME)	84%
Colgate University (NY)	84%
College of William and Mary (VA)*	84%
Cornell University (NY)	84%
Washington and Lee University (VA)	84%
Wesleyan University (CT)	84%
Babson College (MA)	83%
Brown University (RI)	83%
Hamilton College (NY)	83%
Johns Hopkins University (MD)	83%
Providence College (RI)	83%
University of Chicago	83%
University of Virginia *	83%
Vanderbilt University (TN)	83%
Washington University in St. Louis	83%
Connecticut College	82%
Macalester College (MN)	82%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	82%
Stonehill College (MA)	82%
United States Military Academy (NY)*	82%
Villanova University (PA)	82%
Claremont McKenna College (CA)	81%
Furman University (SC)	81%
Smith College (MA)	81%
Barnard College (NY)	80%
California Institute of Technology	80%
Muhlenberg College (PA)	80%
St. Olaf College (MN)	80%
Trinity College (CT)	80%
University of Richmond (VA)	80%
Whitman College (WA)	80%
Cleveland Institute of Music	79%
DePauw University (IN)	79%
Emory University (GA)	79%
Fairfield University (CT)	79%
Mount Holyoke College (MA)	79%
Rice University (TX)	79%
Santa Clara University (CA)	79%
Union College (NY)	79%
Wake Forest University (NC)	79%
Centre College (KY)	78%
Dickinson College (PA)	78%
Harvey Mudd College (CA)	78%
Rhode Island School of Design	78%
St. John's University (MN)	78%
Thomas Aquinas College (CA)	78%
Wheaton College (IL)	78%
Bentley College (MA)	77%
Colorado College	77%
Loyola College in Maryland	77%
Skidmore College (NY)	77%
Susquehanna University (PA)	77%
Illinois Wesleyan University	76%
Stanford University (CA)	76%
Ursinus College (PA)	76%
College of St. Benedict (MN)	75%
Franklin and Marshall College (PA)	75%
Gettysburg College (PA)	75%
Kalamazoo College (MI)	75%
Lehigh University (PA)	75%
Occidental College (CA)	75%
Rhodes College (TN)	75%
United States Air Force Academy (CO)*	75%
University of Scranton (PA)	75%
Webb Institute (NY)	75%
Bryn Mawr College (PA)	74%
Grove City College (PA)	74%
Juniata College (PA)	74%
New York University	74%
Augustana College (IL)	73%
Bard College at Simon's Rock (MA)	73%
Denison University (OH)	73%
Austin College (TX)	72%
Emerson College (MA)	72%
Fordham University (NY)	72%
George Washington University (DC)	72%
Juilliard School (NY)	72%
Presbyterian College (SC)	72%
Sewanee–University of the South (TN)	72%
Siena College (NY)	72%
Wofford College (SC)	72%

* denotes a public school.

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USNews.com: America's Best Colleges 2008

Highest graduation rates

Following are the schools with the highest rates of students who graduate in four years.

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