University of Notre Dame has the highest graduation rate, which is the percentage of graduate candidates who complete their degree or certificate within 150 percent of normal time (for example, within 6 years for 4-years BS degree). Its graduatation rate was 97% last year.
Harvard University with 97% and Princeton University with 97% of graduation rates followed it in the ranking of Private Colleges with Highest Graduation Rate.
For the ranking, we exclude schools with fewer than 5,000 students.
The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $64,414 and graduate tuition & fees is $53,843 for the academic year 2023-2024.
The average acceptance rate is 9.16% and the average SAT score is 1,526 at the schools.
| School Name | Graduation Rate | Undergraduate Tuition & Fees | Yield | Acceptance Rate | SAT Score | Total Population | Students to Faculty Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 5 | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, INPrivate, 4-year | 97.00% 1.10% | $62,693 | 59.12% | 12.38% | 1,500 | 13,105 | 9 to 1 |
| 1 3 | Harvard University Cambridge, MAPrivate, 4-year | 97.00% 0.26% | $59,076 | 83.72% | 3.45% | 1,550 | 30,631 | 7 to 1 |
| 1 - | Princeton University Princeton, NJPrivate, 4-year | 97.00% 0.57% | $59,710 | 76.66% | 4.50% | 1,540 | 8,842 | 5 to 1 |
| 1 4 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PAPrivate, 4-year | 97.00% 0.78% | $66,104 | 69.25% | 5.87% | 1,540 | 28,201 | 8 to 1 |
| 5 2 | Yale University New Haven, CTPrivate, 4-year | 96.00% 0.92% | $64,700 | 70.37% | 4.50% | 1,540 | 14,776 | 6 to 1 |
| 5 6 | Northwestern University Evanston, ILPrivate, 4-year | 96.00% 0.77% | $65,997 | 57.01% | 7.15% | 1,530 | 23,161 | 6 to 1 |
| 5 11 | Dartmouth College Hanover, NHPrivate, 4-year | 96.00% 2.40% | $65,511 | 67.11% | 6.23% | 1,540 | 6,744 | 7 to 1 |
| 5 3 | Duke University Durham, NCPrivate, 4-year | 96.00% 0.13% | $65,805 | 55.39% | 6.78% | 1,550 | 18,023 | 6 to 1 |
| 5 4 | Brown University Providence, RIPrivate, 4-year | 96.00% 0.16% | $68,230 | 63.10% | 5.23% | 1,540 | 11,189 | 6 to 1 |
| 5 15 | Rice University Houston, TXPrivate, 4-year | 96.00% 3.66% | $58,128 | 45.97% | 7.88% | 1,550 | 8,672 | 6 to 1 |
| 11 5 | University of Chicago Chicago, ILPrivate, 4-year | 95.00% 0.90% | $65,619 | 87.94% | 4.79% | 1,550 | 18,339 | 5 to 1 |
| 11 2 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MDPrivate, 4-year | 95.00% 0.38% | $62,840 | 48.18% | 7.56% | 1,550 | 31,275 | 6 to 1 |
| 11 9 | Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NYPrivate, 4-year | 95.00% 2.36% | $68,171 | 63.14% | 4.23% | 1,540 | 34,782 | 6 to 1 |
| 11 3 | Cornell University Ithaca, NYPrivate, 4-year | 95.00% 0.86% | $66,014 | 66.01% | 8.16% | 1,520 | 25,898 | 9 to 1 |
| 15 3 | Georgetown University Washington, DCPrivate, 4-year | 94.00% 1.20% | $65,081 | 47.96% | 13.08% | 1,500 | 20,984 | 11 to 1 |
| 15 3 | Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MOPrivate, 4-year | 94.00% 0.88% | $62,982 | 47.42% | 11.96% | 1,540 | 17,012 | 7 to 1 |
| 17 2 | Tufts University Medford, MAPrivate, 4-year | 93.00% 0.81% | $67,844 | 50.49% | 10.13% | 1,510 | 13,431 | 10 to 1 |
| 17 2 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PAPrivate, 4-year | 93.00% 0.23% | $63,274 | 44.44% | 11.40% | 1,540 | 16,002 | 5 to 1 |
| 17 - | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TNPrivate, 4-year | 93.00% 0.38% | $63,946 | 57.03% | 6.28% | 1,540 | 13,710 | 7 to 1 |
| 17 7 | Stanford University Stanford, CAPrivate, 4-year | 93.00% 2.52% | $62,484 | 80.94% | 3.91% | 1,550 | 18,283 | 5 to 1 |
| 21 - | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CAPrivate, 4-year | 92.00% 0.01% | $68,237 | 44.89% | 10.02% | 1,510 | 48,945 | 9 to 1 |
| 21 6 | Emory University Atlanta, GAPrivate, 4-year | 92.00% 1.96% | $60,774 | 40.25% | 11.10% | 1,520 | 14,841 | 9 to 1 |
| 21 1 | Villanova University Villanova, PAPrivate, 4-year | 92.00% 0.71% | $64,701 | 29.95% | 25.12% | 1,460 | 10,383 | 10 to 1 |
| 24 - | Boston College Chestnut Hill, MAPrivate, 4-year | 91.00% 0.22% | $67,680 | 41.36% | 15.65% | 1,490 | 15,287 | 12 to 1 |
| 24 2 | Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NCPrivate, 4-year | 91.00% 0.75% | $64,758 | 36.76% | 21.56% | 1,460 | 8,963 | 10 to 1 |
| Average | 94.48% | $64,414 | 57.38% | 9.16% | 1,526 | 18,859 | 7 to 1 |