How To Succeed in the USN&WR Rankings - Without Really Trying

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It’s more relevant to rank the # of transfer students as a % of overall undergraduate student body. Here’s hawkette’s list re-ranked by %:</p>

<p><school> <# of transfers> <% transfers></school></p>

<p>UCLA … 3321 … 12.8%
UC-Berkeley … 2036 … 8.3%
UC-David … 1875 … 8.0%
UC-San Diego … 1742 … 7.9%
UC-Santa Barbara . 1273 … 6.9%
USC … 1116 … 6.8%
UC-Irvine … 1448 … 6.7%
U Texas-Austin … 2128 … 5.7%
U Florida … 1706 … 4.8%
U Washington … 1345 … 4.7%
UNC-Chapel Hill … 793 … 4.5%
Cornell … 571 … 4.2%
U Wisconsin … 1276 … 4.2%
U Virginia … 590 … 3.9%
New York U … 736 … 3.5%
William and Mary … 192 … 3.3%
Georgetown … 227 … 3.2%
Georgia Tech … 380 … 3.0%
U Michigan … 779 … 3.0%
U Illinois … 866 … 2.8%
Northwestern … 190 … 2.3%
Notre Dame … 171 … 2.0%
U Penn … 197 … 2.0%
Rochester … 102 … 2.0%
Vanderbilt … 126 … 1.9%
Rice … 56 … 1.8%
RPI … 92 … 1.8%
Boston College … 149 … 1.6%
Lehigh … 70 … 1.5%
Case Western … 57 … 1.4%
WUSTL … 93 … 1.3%
Emory … 82 … 1.2%
Columbia … 81 … 1.1%
Brandeis … 34 … 1.1%
Wake Forest … 45 … 1.0%
Pennsylvania State … 366 … 1.0%
Brown … 55 … 0.9%
U Chicago … 41 … 0.8%
Carnegie Mellon … 44 … 0.8%
Cal Tech … 6 … 0.7%
Yale … 33 … 0.6%
Dartmouth … 23 … 0.6%
Tufts … 27 … 0.5%
Johns Hopkins … 26 … 0.5%
MIT … 15 … 0.4%
Stanford … 20 … 0.3%
Princeton … 0 … 0.0%</p>

<p>While public universities have an obligation to the state to take in community college grads, it’s interesting to see some private universities also have significant transfers: USC(6.8%), NYU(3.5%), G’town(3.2%).</p>