Students Entering Fall 2020*

US News rank	College	Transfer rate	Transfers applied	Transfers accepted
1	Princeton University	1.7%	905	15
2.1	Columbia University	10.1%	2222	224
2.2	Harvard University	1.2%	1376	17
2.3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	3.1%	673	21
5	Yale University	1.7%	1311	22
6.1	Stanford University	3.9%	2216	86
6.2	University of Chicago	21.2%	679	144
8	University of Pennsylvania	7.9%	2506	197
9.1	California Institute of Technology	5.2%	96	5
9.2	Duke University	5.5%	1274	70
9.3	Johns Hopkins University	7.1%	1526	109
9.4	Northwestern University	15.4%	2434	375
13	Dartmouth College	28.6%	273	78
14.1	Brown University	3.5%	2293	81
14.2	Vanderbilt University	36.8%	1738	640
14.3	Washington University in St. Louis	26.4%	1108	292
17.1	Cornell University	18.4%	4740	872
17.2	Rice University	12.4%	816	101
19	University of Notre Dame	43.5%	734	319
20	University of California, Los Angeles	24.5%	26127	6396
21	Emory University	32.6%	1368	446
22	University of California, Berkeley	20.6%	20443	4212
23.1	Georgetown University	14.1%	2195	310
23.2	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	45.8%	4513	2066
25.1	Carnegie Mellon University	8.2%	999	82
25.2	University of Virginia	40.4%	2970	1200
27	University of Southern California	26.8%	8846	2368
28.1	New York University	41.5%	7906	3279
28.2	Tufts University	28.0%	1063	298
28.3	University of California, Santa Barbara	59.3%	18984	11250
28.4	University of Florida	42.9%	5931	2546
28.5	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	44.6%	3289	1468
28.6	Wake Forest University	22.7%	269	61
34.1	University of California, San Diego	55.9%	21123	11816
34.2	University of Rochester	46.3%	806	373
36.1	Boston College	23.7%	1589	376
36.2	University of California, Irvine	11.2%	24214	2723
38.1	Georgia Institute of Technology	38.3%	2253	862
38.2	University of California, Davis	55.4%	17840	9876
38.3	University of Texas at Austin	32.4%	6925	2241
38.4	William & Mary	60.1%	766	460
42.1	Boston University	53.7%	5164	2773
42.2	Brandeis University	32.4%	629	204
42.3	Case Western Reserve University	33.5%	570	191
42.4	Tulane University	25.8%	1221	315
42.5	University of Wisconsin, Madison	51.9%	3525	1830
47	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	47.3%	4254	2012
48	University of Georgia	79.0%	2525	1995
49.1	Lehigh University	29.5%	555	164
49.2	Northeastern University	48.4%	3099	1499

Data sources: usnews.com, collegeboard.org, school websites

*Some notes:

Why Fall 2020? US News releases its Top 50 every September, based on information from the previous fall. So these transfer stats for students transferring and starting school Fall 2020 is for the US News Top 50 rankings released September 2020.

Why these schools? They happen to be the Top 50 National Universities according to US News. We wanted a sampling of the most popular schools that students might be curious about. Keep in mind there are about 2,500 four-year colleges in the US.

As with all statistics, take them with a grain of salt. The numbers change each year, and, if you can make a strong case for transferring, your odds will be much better than what you see here (and, of course, the opposite is true too).