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Top 10 Universities with the Highest Graduation Rates

Top 10 Universities with the Highest Graduation Rates
12/20/2010
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Suada Kolovic

Drum roll please: According to a report released by the Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard University nabbed the top spot with the highest undergrad completion rate of all research universities...shocking, I know.

The report, “Graduation Rates Over Time: Private Research Institutions,” compared graduation rates at public and private research universities from 2002 to 2008 analyzing changes in graduation rates of more than 1,000 four-year public and private nonprofit colleges and universities. The rates were calculated as the percentage of all first-time, full-time students entering in the fall seeking bachelor’s degrees who completed their bachelor’s degrees within six years. The Chronicle found that 33 percent of universities showed a lower graduation rate in 2008 than in 2002 and suggested that the decrease may be due to the fact that students are taking longer than six years to earn a degree.

Check out the top 10 universities below with the highest graduation rates in 2008 and for a complete list, visit the Chronicle’s website. For more information on any of these schools – or thousands of others –check out our college search.

  1. Harvard
  2. Yale
  3. University of Notre Dame
  4. Princeton University
  5. University of Pennsylvania
  6. Duke University
  7. Dartmouth College
  8. Washington University in St. Louis
  9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  10. Northwestern University
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