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For the third consecutive year, the University of Washington is No. 1 on the undergraduate list in the large schools category, with 104 alumni serving as Peace Corps Volunteers. The University of Colorado-Boulder has risen dramatically from sixth place last year to claim the No. 2 in the large schools category, with 102 Volunteers. Michigan State University has also risen up two spots from fifth place last year to take the No. 3 rank among the country's large schools, with 89 currently-serving Volunteers. </p>
<p>In the medium schools category, George Washington University captured the No. 1 spot this year with a total of 57 alumni serving as Volunteers. The University of California-Santa Cruz takes the No. 2 honors this year with 52 Volunteers, while American University comes in quite closely behind UC Santa Cruz to garner the No. 3 spot with 51 Volunteers. </p>
<p>Among small schools, the University of Chicago tops the list at No. 1 for the second consecutive year in a row, with 35 Volunteers. St. Olaf College rose significantly this year from ninth place last year to take the No. 2 spot with 26 Volunteers, edging out a three-way tie for the No. 3 spot, which is shared this year by Middlebury College, Smith College, and the University of Puget Sound, with 21 alumni serving respectively as Volunteers.
<ol>
<li>U Chicago</li>
<li>St Olaf</li>
<li>Middlebury
Smith
U Puget Sound
6.Gonzaga U
Oberlin
U Mary Washington</li>
<li>Macalester</li>
<li>Colgate
Darmouth
Gustavus Adolphus
Hope
Willamette</li>
</ol>
<p>Don’t have the will at present to re-do this analysis for the latest data…be my guest if you do, as I think its a bit more revealing than the PC’s general “large, medium & small” buckets.</p>
<p>Get some very different rankings if done “per graduate” or per student:</p>
<p>George Washington works out to .53% of students
American works out to .84% of students
Chicago works out to .71% of students
Santa Cruz works out to .36% of students</p>
<p>As a measure of “global do-good vibe” in the undergrad population, I’ve calculated the PC volunteer to undergrad population ratio for each of the schools listed in the recent PC publication. Note that the PC had a volunteer cutoff of 15 for the small group, so if some small school like Kalamazoo (who has shown well in the past with PC), for instance, had a volunteer number of 13, they would not have made the published list, but their ratio would have been high on this ranking due to their small undergrad population…hence, this ranking is probably not inclusive of some very deserving small schools.</p>
<p>As with prior rankings by this method, the LACs stand out, with American U, William & Mary, Chicago, GWU, and Georgetown being the only national U’s to make the Top 25 list.</p>
<p>RANK – SCHOOL #Vol Under# (Vol/under)
51 – UCSB 49 18415 0.0027
52 – U Wisc Mad 81 30618 0.0026
53 – Col St 57 21679 0.0026
54 – U Penn 24 9687 0.0025
55 – Mich St 89 36072 0.0025
56 – U Pitt 42 17208 0.0024
57 – Bost U 45 18733 0.0024
58 – UC Dav 53 23499 0.0023
59 – U Wisc La 19 8521 0.0022
60 – UCSD 49 22048 0.0022
61 – Bing U 24 11515 0.0021
62 – U N Col 21 10177 0.0021
63 – U Minn 65 32294 0.0020
64 – UCLA 50 25928 0.0019
65 – U Tex 70 37459 0.0019
66 – Va Tech 43 23041 0.0019
67 – UNH 22 12067 0.0018
68 – U Ga 44 25335 0.0017
69 – App St 22 13997 0.0016
70 – PSU 57 36815 0.0015
71 – Ga Tech 19 12565 0.0015
72 – U Fla 53 35189 0.0015
73 – N Ariz 23 15569 0.0015
74 – OSU 57 39209 0.0015
75 – Syr U 19 13203 0.0014
76 – UIUC 44 30895 0.0014</p>
<p>ps…I pulled the undergrad #'s from USNews online, so they are either 2007 or 2008 undergrad enrollment (not total enrollment) numbers. The # of PC volunteers is reported by PC for the year 2008.</p>
<p>Post #2 and Post #4 or similar in one huge respect: those are “liberal” colleges and universities. I don’t mean that as a put down. I prefer a liberal school for my Ds</p>