Students Entering Fall 2017*

US News rank	College	Transfer rate	Transfers applied	Transfers accepted
1	Princeton University	N/A	N/A	N/A
2	Harvard University	1.00%	1553	16
3.1	Columbia University	6.70%	2536	170
3.2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4.10%	581	24
3.3	University of Chicago	5.40%	881	48
3.4	Yale University	2.50%	1240	31
7	Stanford University	1.40%	2234	31
8.1	Duke University	6.70%	1197	80
8.2	University of Pennsylvania	8.10%	2715	221
10.1	Johns Hopkins University	10.20%	1105	113
10.2	Northwestern University	15.10%	1872	282
12.1	California Institute of Technology	1.90%	155	3
12.2	Dartmouth College	0.50%	829	4
14.1	Brown University	5.10%	1862	95
14.2	Vanderbilt University	29.70%	1359	404
16.1	Cornell University	17.90%	4762	852
16.2	Rice University	9.70%	555	54
18	University of Notre Dame	26.60%	884	235
19.1	University of California - Los Angeles	25.90%	22050	5720
19.2	Washington University in St. Louis	20.20%	1131	228
21	Emory University	25.60%	1000	256
22.1	Georgetown University	15.90%	2175	346
22.2	University of California - Berkeley	23.20%	18609	4316
22.3	University of Southern California	24.30%	8833	2143
25.1	Carnegie Mellon University	6.90%	825	57
25.2	University of Virginia	39.70%	2591	1028
27.1	Tufts University	9.60%	1131	109
27.2	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	37.90%	4141	1571
27.3	Wake Forest University	24.70%	373	92
30.1	New York University	25.80%	7820	2014
30.2	University of California - Santa Barbara	55.70%	16619	9261
30.3	University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	34.50%	3526	1218
33.1	University of California - Irvine	52.70%	19557	10309
33.2	University of Rochester	29.20%	1053	308
35.1	Brandeis University	31.40%	599	188
35.2	Georgia Institute of Technology	37.80%	1909	721
35.3	University of Florida	41.10%	7194	2954
38.1	Boston College	16.60%	1384	230
38.2	College of William and Mary	44.90%	858	385
38.3	University of California - Davis	61.50%	16763	10317
41	University of California - San Diego	54.30%	17823	9682
42.1	Boston University	52.00%	3931	2044
42.2	Case Western Reserve University	23.40%	487	114
44.1	Northeastern University	26.10%	3519	920
44.2	Tulane University	26.50%	1149	305
46.1	Pepperdine University	29.80%	717	214
46.2	University of Georgia	72.80%	2537	1848
46.3	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	45.80%	4940	2263
49.1	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	49.40%	451	223
49.2	University of Texas - Austin	36.80%	8189	3012
49.3	University of Wisconsin - Madison	51.70%	3858	1996
49.4	Villanova University	31.70%	877	278

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

*Some notes:

Why Fall 2017? 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 2017 is for the US News Top 50 rankings released September 2018.

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).