| Institution |
Avg
Fresman retention rate |
| California Institute of Technology |
98% |
| Yale University |
98% |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
98% |
| Princeton University |
98% |
| Columbia University In The City of New York |
98% |
| University of Pennsylvania |
98% |
| Brown University |
98% |
| Stanford University |
98% |
| University of California-Berkeley |
97% |
| University of California-Los Angeles |
97% |
| University of Chicago |
97% |
| Northwestern University |
97% |
| Harvard University |
97% |
| Washington University In St Louis |
97% |
| Rice University |
97% |
| University of Virginia-Main Campus |
97% |
| Cornell Univ |
96% |
| University of Southern California |
96% |
| Johns Hopkins University |
96% |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
96% |
| Duke University |
96% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
96% |
| Vanderbilt University |
96% |
| Penn State Univ. |
94% |
| University of Florida |
94% |
| University of California-Irvine |
94% |
| University of California-San Diego |
94% |
| Emory University |
94% |
| Brandeis University |
94% |
| University of Rochester |
94% |
| Carnegie Mellon University |
94% |
| Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison |
93% |
| Univ. of Maryland |
93% |
| Univ. of Georgia |
93% |
| The University of Texas at Austin |
93% |
| Georgia Tech |
92% |
| Univ of Illinois – Urbana |
92% |
| Texas A&M Univ |
92% |
| New York University |
92% |
| Syracuse University |
92% |
| University of Washington-Seattle Campus |
92% |
| Case Western Reserve University |
91% |
| Univ of California – Davis |
90% |
| Ohio State |
90% |
| Michigan State |
90% |
| Virginia Tech |
90% |
| NC State Univ. |
90% |
| University of California-Santa Barbara |
90% |
| University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus |
90% |
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick |
89% |
| Indiana University-Bloomington |
88% |
| Tulane University of Louisiana |
88% |
| Suny at Stony Brook |
88% |
| Univ of Minnesota |
87% |
| Suny at Buffalo |
87% |
| Purdue Univ. - Main Campus |
85% |
| Iowa State Univ |
85% |
| University of Colorado at Boulder |
84% |
| University of Iowa |
84% |
| University of Missouri-Columbia |
84% |
| University of Oregon |
84% |
| University of Nebraska at Lincoln |
82% |
| University of Arizona |
79% |