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Comparing NC State to Research Peer Institutions

Freshman Retention Rate

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%

Definition: Average freshman retention rate: The percentage of first-year freshmen that returned to the same college or university the following fall, averaged over the first-year classes entering between 2003 and 2006.

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


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