Fall 2022

US News rank	College	Transfer rate	Transfers applied	Transfers accepted
1	Princeton University	2.9%	1201	35
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1.4%	1514	21
3	Harvard University	0.9%	1735	15
3.1	Stanford University	1.8%	3141	57
5	Yale University	1.6%	1973	32
6	University of Pennsylvania	5.3%	3513	185
7	California Institute of Technology	5.7%	159	9
7.1	Duke University		N/A	N/A
9	Brown University	5.4%	2836	152
9.1	Johns Hopkins University	6.5%	1634	106
9.2	Northwestern University	13.0%	3264	423
12	Columbia University		N/A	N/A
12.1	Cornell University	13.9%	5761	798
12.2	University of Chicago	6.5%	1256	82
15	University of California, Berkeley	24.3%	19380	4714
15.1	University of California, Los Angeles	24.4%	25099	6130
17	Rice University	5.0%	1319	66
18	Dartmouth College	7.3%	599	44
18.1	Vanderbilt University	16.6%	2833	471
20	University of Notre Dame	26.7%	794	212
21	University of Michigan--Ann Arbor	36.6%	5633	2062
22	Georgetown University	7.3%	2557	186
22.1	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	42.1%	3645	1535
24	Carnegie Mellon University	7.3%	1310	96
24.1	Emory University	19.1%	2020	386
24.2	University of Virginia	34.8%	3556	1239
24.3	Washington University in St. Louis	17.4%	1559	272
28	University of California, Davis		N/A	N/A
28.1	University of California, San Diego	58.7%	19723	11586
28.2	University of Florida	44.4%	5326	2364
28.3	University of Southern California	23.5%	9100	2141
32	University of Texas at Austin	33.9%	6961	2358
33	Georgia Institute of Technology	36.2%	2525	913
33.1	University of California, Irvine	40.7%	22795	9276
35	New York University	20.5%	8361	1712
35.1	University of California, Santa Barbara	58.1%	17632	10246
35.2	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	50.0%	4600	2300
35.3	University of Wisconsin--Madison	52.9%	3974	2102
39	Boston College	14.1%	2405	339
40	Rutgers University--New Brunswick	55.6%	7273	4041
40.1	Tufts University	10.0%	1474	148
40.1	University of Washington	46.2%	4635	2140
43	Boston University	29.0%	5829	1691
43.1	The Ohio State University	88.0%	3828	3370
43.2	Purdue University--Main Campus	48.4%	2937	1422
46	University of Maryland, College Park	58.8%	6016	3540
47	Lehigh University	33.2%	555	184
47.1	Texas A&M University	51.8%	5207	2699
47.2	University of Georgia	74.9%	3003	2248
47.3	University of Rochester	41.3%	800	330
47.4	Virginia Tech	57.6%	2890	1666
47.5	Wake Forest University	28.8%	295	85

Data source: usnews.com, collegeboard.com

Some notes:

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).