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Comparing NC State to Research Peer Institutions

Six Year Graduation Rate

Institution
6 yr Grad Rate
Harvard University
97%
Yale University
96%
Princeton University
95%
University of Pennsylvania
95%
Brown University
95%
Stanford University
95%
Columbia University In The City of New York
94%
Duke University
94%
Northwestern University
93%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
93%
University of Virginia-Main Campus
93%
Cornell Univ
92%
Washington University In St Louis
92%
Johns Hopkins University
91%
Vanderbilt University
91%
Rice University
91%
University of California-Los Angeles
90%
University of Chicago
90%
California Institute of Technology
89%
University of California-Berkeley
88%
Emory University
88%
Brandeis University
88%
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
88%
Carnegie Mellon University
87%
University of California-Santa Barbara
85%
University of Southern California
85%
Penn State Univ.
84%
University of California-San Diego
84%
New York University
84%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
83%
Univ of Illinois – Urbana 
82%
Syracuse University
82%
University of Florida
81%
University of Rochester
81%
Case Western Reserve University
81%
Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison 
80%
Univ. of Maryland
80%
University of California-Irvine
80%
Univ  of California – Davis
79%
Georgia  Tech
78%
Univ. of Georgia
78%
Texas A&M Univ
78%
Virginia Tech
78%
The University of Texas at Austin
78%
Tulane University of Louisiana
76%
University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus
75%
University of Washington-Seattle Campus
75%
Michigan State 
74%
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
73%
Indiana University-Bloomington
72%
Ohio State 
71%
Purdue Univ. - Main Campus
69%
NC State Univ.
69%
University of Missouri-Columbia
68%
University of Colorado at Boulder
67%
University of Oregon
67%
Iowa State Univ  
66%
University of Iowa
66%
Univ of Minnesota
63%
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
63%
Suny at Buffalo
63%
Suny at Stony Brook
59%
University of Arizona
56%

Definition: Average graduation rate: The percentage of freshmen who graduated within a six-year period, averaged over the classes entering between 1998 and 2001. (Note: This excludes transfers into the school).

Source: US News America's Best Colleges, August 2008

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