WIAReport has compiled the graduation rates of men and women at the nation’s 30 highest-ranked universities (according to U.S. News & World Report) and ranked them accordingly. The rates are for students who enter the particular school and earn a bachelor’s degree at the same institution over the ensuing six years.
At 26 of the 30 highest-ranked universities, the graduation rate for women was higher than the rate for men. Men and women at three of the top 30 universities had identical graduation rates. At Caltech, the graduation rate for women was one percentage point lower than the rate for men.
| Institution | Male Rate | Female Rate | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University | 90% | 95% | +5 |
| Stanford University | 90% | 95% | +5 |
| University of Virginia | 93% | 97% | +4 |
| University of Southern California | 90% | 94% | +4 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | 90% | 94% | +4 |
| Emory University | 90% | 93% | +3 |
| New York University | 87% | 90% | +3 |
| University of California, San Diego | 86% | 89% | +3 |
| Rice University | 94% | 97% | +3 |
| Dartmouth College | 95% | 97% | +2 |
| Princeton University | 96% | 98% | +2 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 91% | 93% | +2 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 93% | 95% | +2 |
| Columbia University | 94% | 96% | +2 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 95% | 97% | +2 |
| University of Chicago | 94% | 96% | +2 |
| Georgetown University | 93% | 95% | +2 |
| University of California, Berkeley | 92% | 94% | +2 |
| University of Michigan | 92% | 84% | +2 |
| Duke University | 95% | 97% | +2 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 94% | 95% | +1 |
| Harvard University | 97% | 98% | +1 |
| University of Pennsylvania | 96% | 97% | +1 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 92% | 93% | +1 |
| Northwestern University | 95% | 96% | +1 |
| Cornell University | 95% | 96% | +1 |
| Brown University | 96% | 96% | 0 |
| University of Notre Dame | 97% | 97% | 0 |
| Yale University | 96% | 96% | 0 |
| California Institute of Technology | 94% | 93% | -1 |