Grateful Graduates Index

It’s a pretty simple formula that measures of the amount of private gifts given to a four year college over time, divided by the number of full time students it has. After all, private donations are typically an indicator of two things: how successful an alumnus is and how grateful he or she feels toward her alma mater.

I also ranked schools by median donations per student over the last decade rather than average donations ...

While our Grateful Grads Index contains most of the usual suspects of the best colleges lists – Caltech, MIT and Stanford top it — there are a few surprises, like tuition-free Berea College of Kentucky. (а также Bard, Claremont McKenna & Mills)

1 California Institute of Technology

2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3 Stanford University

4 Duke University

5 Yale University

6 Princeton University

7 Dartmouth College

8 Harvard University

9 Johns Hopkins University

10 Williams College

11 Brown University

12 Columbia University

13 Wellesley College

14 Bowdoin College

15 Bard College

16 University of Pennsylvania

17 Claremont McKenna College

18 University of Chicago

19 Amherst College

20 Mills College

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