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Highest first-year retention
2,737 colleges in the U.S. with this figure reported (500+ students).
1Baptist Health College Little Rock · AR · Private (nonprofit)100%2Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology · MA · Private (nonprofit)100%3Brazosport College · TX · Public100%4Career Networks Institute · CA · Private (for-profit)100%5Chamberlain University-Florida · FL · Private (for-profit)100%6Chamberlain University-Louisiana · LA · Private (for-profit)100%7Charter Oak State College · CT · Public100%8Helene Fuld College of Nursing · NY · Private (nonprofit)100%9Humphreys University · CA · Private (nonprofit)100%10Lackawanna College · PA · Private (nonprofit)100%11Miami Lakes Educational Center and Technical College · FL · Public100%12Polytech Adult Education · DE · Public100%13Rasmussen University-Minnesota · MN · Private (for-profit)100%14Red Rocks Community College · CO · Public100%15Santa Ana College · CA · Public100%16Sinclair Community College · OH · Public100%17Sinte Gleska University · SD · Public100%18Southeastern College-Boynton Beach · FL · Private (for-profit)100%19The King's University · TX · Private (nonprofit)100%20Trine University-Regional/Non-Traditional Campuses · IN · Private (nonprofit)100%21Turtle Mountain College · ND · Private (nonprofit)100%22West Coast University-Texas · TX · Private (for-profit)100%23Brown University · RI · Private (nonprofit)99%24Harvard University · MA · Private (nonprofit)99%25Massachusetts Institute of Technology · MA · Private (nonprofit)99%26United States Coast Guard Academy · CT · Public99%27University of Chicago · IL · Private (nonprofit)99%28Yale University · CT · Private (nonprofit)99%29Bowdoin College · ME · Private (nonprofit)98%30California Institute of Technology · CA · Private (nonprofit)98%31Cornell University · NY · Private (nonprofit)98%32Dartmouth College · NH · Private (nonprofit)98%33Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus · GA · Public98%34Johns Hopkins University · MD · Private (nonprofit)98%35Northeastern University · MA · Private (nonprofit)98%36Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion · NY · Private (nonprofit)98%37Rice University · TX · Private (nonprofit)98%38Stanford University · CA · Private (nonprofit)98%39University of Michigan-Ann Arbor · MI · Public98%40University of Notre Dame · IN · Private (nonprofit)98%
Source: U.S. Department of Education, IPEDS (latest survey year). Sorted only by highest first-year retention — this is not an overall quality ranking. Open-admission colleges do not report an admit rate and are not listed here.