Highest graduation rate (150% normal time)
Bachelor’s-predominant four-year institutions ranked by completion within 150% of normal time (often read as a six-year-style window for bachelor’s programs in federal consumer data).
Method notes
- Underlying institution file: EDsmart Data processed College Scorecard extract merged to IPEDS 2023 directory for HBCU and Carnegie fields.
- ROI column matches the processed college_roi_rankings series in this site build; see College Scorecard ROI methodology.
- School profile links use generated slugs; not every campus has a published profile page yet—use the Scorecard site as fallback.
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| Rank | Institution | State | Control | Enrollment | Primary metric | Also see |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chamberlain University-Virginia | VA | Private for-profit | 557 | 100.0% | 100% time 100.0% |
| 2 | Gnomon | CA | Private for-profit | 294 | 100.0% | 100% time 100.0% |
| 3 | Amridge University | AL | Private nonprofit | 241 | 100.0% | 100% time 100.0% |
| 4 | Strayer University-Florida | FL | Private for-profit | 1,107 | 100.0% | 100% time 100.0% |
| 5 | Grace School of Theology | TX | Private nonprofit | 229 | 100.0% | 100% time 100.0% |
| 6 | Chamberlain University-Missouri | MO | Private for-profit | 284 | 100.0% | 100% time 100.0% |
| 7 | Lincoln University | CA | Private nonprofit | 204 | 100.0% | 100% time 100.0% |
| 8 | World Mission University | CA | Private nonprofit | 207 | 100.0% | 100% time 0.0% |
| 9 | University of Fort Lauderdale | FL | Private nonprofit | 314 | 100.0% | 100% time 0.0% |
| 10 | Chamberlain University-Michigan | MI | Private for-profit | 629 | 100.0% | 100% time 100.0% |
| 11 | Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing | NY | Private nonprofit | 311 | 100.0% | 100% time 100.0% |
| 12 | Princeton University | NJ | Private nonprofit | 5,709 | 97.6% | 100% time 75.3% |
| 13 | Harvard University | MA | Private nonprofit | 7,601 | 97.6% | 100% time 55.7% |
| 14 | Duke University | NC | Private nonprofit | 6,442 | 96.8% | 100% time 87.0% |
| 15 | University of Pennsylvania | PA | Private nonprofit | 10,650 | 96.5% | 100% time 86.5% |
| 16 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MA | Private nonprofit | 4,535 | 96.4% | 100% time 82.8% |
| 17 | Franklin W Olin College of Engineering | MA | Private nonprofit | 377 | 96.4% | 100% time 63.9% |
| 18 | Columbia University in the City of New York | NY | Private nonprofit | 8,973 | 96.1% | 100% time 81.0% |
| 19 | University of Chicago | IL | Private nonprofit | 7,569 | 95.9% | 100% time 87.2% |
| 20 | Yale University | CT | Private nonprofit | 6,758 | 95.7% | 100% time 57.5% |
| 21 | Brown University | RI | Private nonprofit | 7,226 | 95.7% | 100% time 77.1% |
| 22 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | VA | Public | 17,597 | 95.6% | 100% time 92.3% |
| 23 | Dartmouth College | NH | Private nonprofit | 4,541 | 95.5% | 100% time 74.9% |
| 24 | Cornell University | NY | Private nonprofit | 15,995 | 95.4% | 100% time 86.9% |
| 25 | Bowdoin College | ME | Private nonprofit | 1,873 | 95.3% | 100% time 72.4% |
| 26 | University of Notre Dame | IN | Private nonprofit | 8,818 | 95.2% | 100% time 89.2% |
| 27 | Northwestern University | IL | Private nonprofit | 9,201 | 95.1% | 100% time 83.4% |
| 28 | Georgetown University | DC | Private nonprofit | 7,569 | 94.8% | 100% time 87.2% |
| 29 | Rice University | TX | Private nonprofit | 4,776 | 94.6% | 100% time 87.0% |
| 30 | California Institute of Technology | CA | Private nonprofit | 987 | 94.4% | 100% time 77.1% |
| 31 | Washington University in St Louis | MO | Private nonprofit | 7,857 | 94.3% | 100% time 85.1% |
| 32 | Carnegie Mellon University | PA | Private nonprofit | 7,304 | 94.1% | 100% time 81.4% |
| 33 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | GA | Public | 18,785 | 94.0% | 100% time 63.6% |
| 34 | Amherst College | MA | Private nonprofit | 1,911 | 93.9% | 100% time 75.0% |
| 35 | Washington and Lee University | VA | Private nonprofit | 1,881 | 93.9% | 100% time 89.5% |
| 36 | Johns Hopkins University | MD | Private nonprofit | 5,693 | 93.8% | 100% time 87.1% |
| 37 | Williams College | MA | Private nonprofit | 2,076 | 93.6% | 100% time 71.2% |
| 38 | Vanderbilt University | TN | Private nonprofit | 7,208 | 93.5% | 100% time 87.2% |
| 39 | Tufts University | MA | Private nonprofit | 7,061 | 93.5% | 100% time 82.6% |
| 40 | Pomona College | CA | Private nonprofit | 1,666 | 93.2% | 100% time 60.9% |
| 41 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | MI | Public | 34,177 | 93.2% | 100% time 81.7% |
| 42 | Babson College | MA | Private nonprofit | 2,728 | 93.1% | 100% time 83.8% |
| 43 | Barnard College | NY | Private nonprofit | 3,264 | 93.0% | 100% time 80.9% |
| 44 | United States Naval Academy | MD | Public | 4,474 | 92.9% | 100% time 91.5% |
| 45 | University of California-Berkeley | CA | Public | 33,068 | 92.8% | 100% time 79.9% |
| 46 | United States Coast Guard Academy | CT | Public | 1,108 | 92.7% | 100% time 89.8% |
| 47 | Wesleyan University | CT | Private nonprofit | 3,067 | 92.6% | 100% time 80.9% |
| 48 | University of California-Los Angeles | CA | Public | 33,475 | 92.6% | 100% time 85.3% |
| 49 | The Juilliard School | NY | Private nonprofit | 468 | 92.6% | 100% time 85.1% |
| 50 | Swarthmore College | PA | Private nonprofit | 1,613 | 92.3% | 100% time 75.8% |
| 51 | Stanford University | CA | Private nonprofit | 7,554 | 91.9% | 100% time 50.8% |
| 52 | Harvey Mudd College | CA | Private nonprofit | 921 | 91.9% | 100% time 80.8% |
| 53 | Villanova University | PA | Private nonprofit | 6,938 | 91.9% | 100% time 89.4% |
| 54 | University of Southern California | CA | Private nonprofit | 20,443 | 91.8% | 100% time 74.5% |
| 55 | Soka University of America | CA | Private nonprofit | 484 | 91.8% | 100% time 79.1% |
| 56 | Wellesley College | MA | Private nonprofit | 2,300 | 91.5% | 100% time 77.7% |
| 57 | Middlebury College | VT | Private nonprofit | 2,738 | 91.4% | 100% time 65.6% |
| 58 | Claremont McKenna College | CA | Private nonprofit | 1,388 | 91.4% | 100% time 75.3% |
| 59 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | NC | Public | 20,752 | 91.2% | 100% time 83.6% |
| 60 | Colgate University | NY | Private nonprofit | 3,180 | 91.2% | 100% time 84.9% |
| 61 | University of Florida | FL | Public | 35,629 | 91.1% | 100% time 75.7% |
| 62 | Emory University | GA | Private nonprofit | 7,298 | 91.1% | 100% time 80.9% |
| 63 | Vassar College | NY | Private nonprofit | 2,444 | 91.1% | 100% time 84.1% |
| 64 | Davidson College | NC | Private nonprofit | 1,867 | 91.1% | 100% time 85.6% |
| 65 | Boston College | MA | Private nonprofit | 10,085 | 90.8% | 100% time 86.4% |
| 66 | Hamilton College | NY | Private nonprofit | 2,030 | 90.6% | 100% time 79.6% |
| 67 | Northeastern University | MA | Private nonprofit | 17,326 | 90.5% | 100% time 0.0% |
| 68 | Hillsdale College | MI | Private nonprofit | 1,573 | 89.7% | 100% time 76.2% |
| 69 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | MA | Private nonprofit | 5,447 | 89.7% | 100% time 84.5% |
| 70 | Bates College | ME | Private nonprofit | 1,760 | 89.7% | 100% time 82.3% |
| 71 | University of Georgia | GA | Public | 32,137 | 89.7% | 100% time 75.5% |
| 72 | Haverford College | PA | Private nonprofit | 1,430 | 89.6% | 100% time 76.2% |
| 73 | Carleton College | MN | Private nonprofit | 2,086 | 89.6% | 100% time 81.8% |
| 74 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | WI | Public | 36,902 | 89.5% | 100% time 75.2% |
| 75 | William & Mary | VA | Public | 7,055 | 89.4% | 100% time 84.4% |
| 76 | Wake Forest University | NC | Private nonprofit | 5,485 | 89.1% | 100% time 84.2% |
| 77 | Smith College | MA | Private nonprofit | 2,544 | 89.0% | 100% time 69.8% |
| 78 | The University of Texas at Austin | TX | Public | 42,855 | 88.9% | 100% time 73.5% |
| 79 | Arizona College of Nursing-Tempe | AZ | Private for-profit | 1,202 | 88.9% | 100% time 88.9% |
| 80 | Colby College | ME | Private nonprofit | 2,407 | 88.8% | 100% time 75.3% |
| 81 | Rhode Island School of Design | RI | Private nonprofit | 2,084 | 88.8% | 100% time 48.7% |
| 82 | Boston University | MA | Private nonprofit | 18,248 | 88.7% | 100% time 74.7% |
| 83 | University of Maryland-College Park | MD | Public | 30,760 | 88.6% | 100% time 77.1% |
| 84 | Grinnell College | IA | Private nonprofit | 1,729 | 88.1% | 100% time 74.7% |
| 85 | Santa Clara University | CA | Private nonprofit | 6,552 | 87.9% | 100% time 81.2% |
| 86 | Lehigh University | PA | Private nonprofit | 5,898 | 87.9% | 100% time 79.7% |
| 87 | Ohio State University-Main Campus | OH | Public | 45,638 | 87.7% | 100% time 72.3% |
| 88 | Colorado College | CO | Private nonprofit | 2,014 | 87.7% | 100% time 71.1% |
| 89 | Lafayette College | PA | Private nonprofit | 2,757 | 87.6% | 100% time 80.2% |
| 90 | New York University | NY | Private nonprofit | 28,663 | 87.6% | 100% time 73.7% |
| 91 | United States Air Force Academy | CO | Public | 4,114 | 87.5% | 100% time 83.5% |
| 92 | College of the Holy Cross | MA | Private nonprofit | 3,106 | 87.3% | 100% time 85.2% |
| 93 | Case Western Reserve University | OH | Private nonprofit | 6,437 | 87.2% | 100% time 72.8% |
| 94 | Macalester College | MN | Private nonprofit | 2,131 | 87.1% | 100% time 73.7% |
| 95 | United States Military Academy | NY | Public | 4,408 | 87.1% | 100% time 84.3% |
| 96 | Stevens Institute of Technology | NJ | Private nonprofit | 4,222 | 86.9% | 100% time 71.0% |
| 97 | University of California-Irvine | CA | Public | 30,197 | 86.9% | 100% time 73.4% |
| 98 | Bentley University | MA | Private nonprofit | 4,474 | 86.8% | 100% time 80.6% |
| 99 | Clemson University | SC | Public | 23,300 | 86.6% | 100% time 68.3% |
| 100 | California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo | CA | Public | 21,996 | 86.4% | 100% time 61.2% |