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Yield Rates at the Most-Selective 4-Year Colleges, Fall 2014 - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Yield Rates at the Most-Selective 4-Year Colleges, Fall 2014
By Ruth Hammond
January 15, 2017
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The 25 most-selective private nonprofit institutions all had much higher yield rates, or percentages of accepted students who
enrolled, than did such institutions over all. In contrast, more than half of the 20 most-selective public institutions had yield
rates that fell below the 32-percent rate for public colleges over all.
Private institutions
Filter
Rank for selectivity
Institution
Applicants
Accepted
Admission rate
Enrolled
Yield
1. Stanford U.
42,167
2,145
5.1%
1,678
78.2%
2. Harvard U.
34,295
2,045
6.0%
1,654
80.9%
3. Yale U.
30,932
1,950
6.3%
1,361
69.8%
4. Columbia U.
32,967
2,291
6.9%
1,424
62.2%
5. Princeton U.
26,641
1,983
7.4%
1,312
66.2%
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
18,356
1,447
7.9%
1,043
72.1%
7. College of the Ozarks
3,407
283
8.3%
256
90.5%
8. Juilliard School
2,385
201
8.4%
129
64.2%
30,431
2,661
8.7%
1,561
58.7%
27,500
2,409
8.8%
1,445
60.0%
6,525
576
8.8%
226
39.2%
35,866
3,718
10.4%
2,425
65.2%
6,043
651
10.8%
327
50.2%
14. Duke U.
31,523
3,596
11.4%
1,721
47.9%
15. Dartmouth College
19,297
2,220
11.5%
1,152
51.9%
16. Pomona College
7,727
942
12.2%
450
47.8%
17. Pitzer College
4,324
563
13.0%
260
46.2%
18. Vanderbilt U.
29,518
3,865
13.1%
1,605
41.5%
19. Northwestern U.
33,674
4,416
13.1%
2,043
46.3%
20. Amherst College
8,477
1,173
13.8%
469
40.0%
21. Cornell University
43,037
6,105
14.2%
3,225
52.8%
22. Harvey Mudd College
3,678
524
14.2%
195
37.2%
23. Bowdoin College
6,935
1,034
14.9%
503
48.6%
24. Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
2,536
382
15.1%
228
59.7%
17,728
2,677
15.1%
949
35.5%
4,171,198
2,106,897
50.5%
488,745
23.2%
9. Brown U.
10. U. of Chicago
11. California Institute of Technology
12. U. of Pennsylvania
13. Claremont McKenna College
25. Rice University
All 1,090 institutions
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Public institutions
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Yield Rates at the Most-Selective 4-Year Colleges, Fall 2014 - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Public institutions
Filter
Rank for selectivity
Institution
Applicants
Accepted
Admission rate
Enrolled
Yield
1. U. of California at Berkeley
73,782
11,820
16.0%
5,467
46.3%
2. U. of California at Los Angeles
86,537
16,059
18.6%
5,764
35.9%
3. City U. of New York Bernard M. Baruch College
19,768
5,516
27.9%
1,282
23.2%
4. U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
31,332
8,929
28.5%
3,976
44.5%
5. City U. of New York Herbert H. Lehman College
14,605
4,222
28.9%
674
16.0%
6. U. of Virginia
31,021
8,997
29.0%
3,709
41.2%
7. California Polytechnic State U. at San Luis Obispo
43,812
13,533
30.9%
4,662
34.4%
8. U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor
49,776
16,047
32.2%
6,505
40.5%
9. College of William and Mary
14,552
4,805
33.0%
1,511
31.4%
10. U. of California at San Diego
73,448
24,449
33.3%
4,922
20.1%
11. Georgia Institute of Technology
25,884
8,641
33.4%
2,809
32.5%
12. San Diego State U.
56,921
19,625
34.5%
5,054
25.8%
13. City U. of New York Hunter College
28,935
10,031
34.7%
2,080
20.7%
14. City U. of New York Brooklyn College
20,260
7,158
35.3%
1,358
19.0%
15. California State U. at Long Beach
57,322
20,326
35.5%
4,335
21.3%
16. U. of California at Santa Barbara
66,813
24,283
36.3%
4,738
19.5%
17. Colorado School of Mines
12,340
4,501
36.5%
999
22.2%
18. City U. of New York York College
13,726
5,096
37.1%
994
19.5%
19. City U. of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice
13,884
5,180
37.3%
1,763
34.0%
20. U. of California at Irvine
66,515
24,890
37.4%
5,435
21.8%
5,213,060
3,131,404
60.1%
1,008,932
32.2%
All 530 institutions
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Note: Yield refers to the percentage of freshmen accepted for admission who enroll at a given institution. Only first-time,
degree- or certificate-seeking freshmen who enrolled either full time or part time are counted. In the ranking for private
nonprofit institutions, only institutions that reported that they enrolled at least 100 first-time freshmen in 2014 are included. In
the rankings for public institutions, only those that reported that they enrolled at least 500 first-time freshmen in 2014 are
included. Overall figures, however, include institutions of all sizes. Percentages are rounded, but institutions were ranked before
rounding. Send comments or questions to [email protected].
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data
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