WASHINGTON--(COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Mar 6, 2002--Top 25 Large Colleges and Universities (more than 5,000 undergraduates)
School / Rank (2001 rank in parentheses) / Number of Alumni Volunteers
1. University of Wisconsin-Madison (1) / 96 2. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (6) / 76 3. University of California-Berkeley (3) / 70 4. University of Texas-Austin (4) / 69 5. University of Colorado-Boulder (2) / 64 6. University of Oregon (5) / 63 7. University of Virginia (7) / 58 University of Washington (9) 8. University of California-Santa Cruz (8) / 53 9. Boston University (18) / 51 10. Indiana University-Bloomington (14) / 50 University of California-Davis (17) University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (14) 11. University of Illinois-Urbana (13) / 49 12. Colorado State University (12) / 48 13. Ohio State University-Columbus (15) / 46 Pennsylvania State University (10) University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (18) 14. Michigan State University (11) / 43 15. Northwestern University (14) / 42 University of California-Santa Barbara (16) 16. University of California-Los Angeles (17) / 41 17. Cornell University (24) / 40 University of Iowa (21) 18. James Madison University (21) / 39 19. University of Montana (21) / 38 20. University of Florida (24) / 37 University of Missouri-Columbia (18) 21. New York University (24) / 35 University of Arizona (*) Virginia Polytechnic Institute State University (*) 22. American University-DC (24) / 34 Arizona State University-Tempe (*) George Washington University (22) Georgetown University (21) Texas A&M; University-College Station (19) Western Washington University (*) 23. University of Maryland-College Park (23) / 33 24. University of Georgia-Athens (25) / 32 25. Miami University-Oxford (22) / 31
Top 10 Small Colleges and Universities (less than 5,000 undergraduates)
School / Rank (2001 rank in parentheses) / Number of Alumni Volunteers
1. Tufts University (2) / 23 2. Colby College (3) / 22 Middlebury College (1) 3. Johns Hopkins University (4) / 21 St. Olaf College (5) 4. Luther College (*) / 19 University of Puget Sound (9) 5. Carleton College (10) / 18 Dartmouth College (4) Smith College (6) Wesleyan University (*) 6. Oberlin College (7) / 17 7. Gonzaga University (*) / 16 Grinnell College (*) Kenyon College (*) Wellesley College (8) 8. Evergreen State College (9) / 15 Haverford College (10) Pomona College (7) University of Chicago (5) Whitman College (4) 9. Colorado College (7) / 14 Wake Forest University (8) 10. Bucknell University (10) / 13 Kalamazoo College (*) Santa Clara University (9) Seattle Pacific University (*) Seattle University (10)
PEACE CORPS FACTS
Current number of Volunteers and trainees: 7,000
Total number of Volunteers and trainees to date: 165,000
Current number of countries served: 70
Total number of countries served: 135
Top three historic rankings (since 1961): 1. University of California-Berkeley 3,111 2. University of Wisconsin-Madison 2,473 3. University of Washington 2,166
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