Top Colleges and Universities Contributing to Teach For America's ...

Top Colleges and Universities Contributing to Teach For America’s 2011 Teaching Corps

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Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. During the 2010-11 academic year, Teach For America received a record 48,000 applications—the largest applicant pool in its history—from graduating seniors, graduate students, and professionals. This fall, more than 5,200 new corps members will start teaching in 43 regions across the country. They represent more than 1,500 colleges and universities, and 77 percent are 2011 graduates. The schools below are ranked by the number of graduates they contributed to the 2011 corps.*

Large Schools (10,000+ Undergrads)** University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

119

University of Maryland-College Park

56

University of California-Berkeley

89

Pennsylvania State University-University Park

55

University of Texas at Austin

87

The Ohio State University-Main Campus

54

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

80

University of Pennsylvania

53

University of Florida

75

University of Georgia

50

University of Southern California

75

Cornell University

49

University of Wisconsin-Madison

70

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

48

University of Virginia

66

Boston University

46

University of Washington-Seattle

62

University of California-Santa Barbara

42

University of California-Los Angeles

61

Syracuse University-Main Campus

41

Medium Schools (3,000-9,999 Undergrads) Harvard University

66

Columbia University in the City of New York

36

Boston College

56

Dartmouth College

29

Georgetown University

54

Tulane University

28

Duke University

53

Howard University

25

Brown University

49

Johns Hopkins University

25

Northwestern University

49

Tufts University

25

Vanderbilt University

47

University of Chicago

24

Yale University

41

Princeton University

23

Stanford University

39

American University

22

Emory University

37

Washington University in St. Louis

22

Small Schools (2,999 or Fewer Undergrads) Spelman College

36

Wesleyan University

15

Wellesley College

24

Colorado College

14

Barnard College

21

Morehouse College

14

Amherst College

18

Mount Holyoke College

14

Claremont McKenna College

17

Pomona College

14

College of the Holy Cross

17

Smith College

14

DePauw University

16

Williams College

14

Colby College

15

Bates College

13

Trinity College (Connecticut)

15

University of Puget Sound

13

*Data as of June 14, 2011 **Categories are based on the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s basic size classification for colleges and universities