National Universities Where Students Are Eager to Enroll

High school seniors aren't the only ones who have to worry about making a good impression during the college admissions process. The schools themselves have to stand out from their competitors in the race to enroll the best students.
In fact, of the 265 research-oriented National Universities that provided data to U.S. News in an annual survey, only 25 could say that they enrolled more than half of the students they accepted for fall 2014.
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Harvard University reported the highest yield, or percentage of accepted students who enrolled, of any National University for fall 2014. National Universities are schools that offer a full range of undergraduate majors, as well as master's and doctoral degrees, and tend to emphasize research. Harvard had a yield of 80.9 percent, while Princeton University, the No. 1 National University in the 2016 Best Colleges rankings, had a yield of 66.2 percent.
The public university with the highest yield was the University of Alaska—Fairbanks, which enrolled 70.6 percent of its 1,164 accepted students in fall 2014. In all, 11 public universities had more than half of their admitted students go on to enroll during this period.
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The average yield among all reporting schools was 33.6 percent, slightly lower than the average of 34.1 percent for fall 2013.
Below are the fall 2014 yields for every National University that reported data to U.S. News. The rate can be affected by a school's early decision or early action options, as some of those programs bind students to attend if accepted. The data reflect first-time, first-year, degree-seeking students only.
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