Large Colleges With the Best 6-Year and 3-Year 2011 Graduation Rates
| 4-year public colleges | ||
| Rank | Institution | Graduation rate within 150 percent of normal time to earn degree |
| 1. | U. of Virginia, main campus | 93.9% |
| 2. | College of William and Mary | 90.7% |
| 3. | U. of California at Berkeley | 90.5% |
| 4. | U.S. Naval Academy | 90.4% |
| 5. | U. of California at Los Angeles | 90.0% |
| 6. | U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor | 89.5% |
| 7. | U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 89.0% |
| 8. | Pennsylvania State U. at University Park | 86.7% |
| 9. | College of New Jersey | 86.6% |
| 10. | U. of California at San Diego | 85.3% |
| 4-year private colleges | ||
| Rank | Institution | Graduation rate within 150 percent of normal time to earn degree |
| 1. | Harvard U. | 97.4% |
| 2. | Yale U. | 96.6% |
| 3. | Stanford U. | 96.1% |
| 4. | U. of Notre Dame | 95.9% |
| 5. | U. of Pennsylvania | 95.8% |
| 6. | Princeton U. | 95.5% |
| 7. | Williams College | 95.3% |
| 8. | Brown U. | 95.2% |
| 9. | Dartmouth College | 95.0% |
| 10. | Duke U. | 94.4% |
| 2-year public colleges | ||
| Rank | Institution | Graduation rate within 150 percent of normal time to earn degree |
| 1. | Lake Area Technical Institute (S.D.) | 68.7% |
| 2. | De Anza College (Calif.) | 59.7% |
| 3. | Northwest Louisiana Technical College (La.) | 57.6% |
| 4. | Alexandria Technical & Community College (Minn.) | 55.9% |
| 5. | Rend Lake College (Ill.) | 53.7% |
| 6. | Foothill College (Calif.) | 53.4% |
| 7. | North Dakota State College of Science (N.D.) | 52.0% |
| 8. | Brevard Community College (Fla.) | 47.4% |
| 9. | Northeast Community College (Neb.) | 45.7% |
| 10. | Des Moines Area Community College (Iowa) | 41.7% |
| 2-year for-profit colleges | ||
| Rank | Institution | Graduation rate within 150 percent of normal time to earn degree |
| 1. | WyoTech-Blairsville (Pa.) | 85.1% |
| 2. | Anamarc College-El Paso (Tex.) | 83.6% |
| 3. | Pennco Tech-Bristol (Pa.) | 83.4% |
| 4. | Kaplan College-Vista (Calif.) | 80.3% |
| 5. | WyoTech-Laramie (Wyo.) | 80.1% |
| 6. | Western Technical College (Tex.) | 80.0% |
| 7. | Kaplan College-Riverside (Calif.) | 79.7% |
| 8. | Central Florida Institute (Fla.) | 79.7% |
| 9. | YTI Career Institute-York (Pa.) | 79.6% |
| 10. | Kaplan College-San Diego (Calif.) | 79.4% |
Note: Only colleges with at least 500 students in the degree-seeking cohort were included. At four-year colleges, graduation rates reflect the percentage of first-time, full-time degree-seeking students who entered in the fall of 2005 and graduated within six years. At two-year colleges, graduation rates reflect the percentage of first-time, full-time degree-seeking students who entered in the fall of 2008 and graduated within three years.
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