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Name the United States universities and liberal arts colleges with the highest yield (the percentage of applicants accepted by a college who enroll there in the fall). These are the schools where more than half of accepted students enrolled.
Separate campuses of public university systems are listed separately.
Figures are for fall 2018 entering class.
Source: U.S.News & World Report
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Yield
Universities
82%
Harvard
82%
Stanford
79%
Brigham Young University–Provo
77%
University of Chicago
76%
MIT
71%
Gallaudet University
70%
Yale
69%
Princeton
67%
Penn
65%
Harding University
63%
Columbia
61%
Brown
61%
Dartmouth
61%
Kennesaw State University
61%
Mississippi College
60%
Cornell University
59%
Yeshiva
57%
Notre Dame
56%
Georgia Southern
56%
Northwestern
55%
Duke
52%
UC Davis
52%
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
50%
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Yield
Liberal Arts Colleges
98%
U.S. Air Force Academy
87%
U.S. Naval Academy
74%
Thomas Aquinas College
73%
Berea College
73%
Principia College
62%
Purchase College
62%
Soka University
56%
Claremont McKenna
55%
Barnard
55%
Bowdoin
53%
Pomona
52%
Virginia Military Institute
2 Comments
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Level 89
Jan 29, 2015
There is clearly a lot of dubious data here, even for U.S. News & World Report.
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Level 80
Feb 19, 2016
Maryville University is a liberal arts school. Its the first thing they say on their website.