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Giving Peace a Chance: UW Again Is Top University for Peace Corps Volunteers |
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For the second year in a row, the University of Washington has contributed more volunteers to the Peace Corps than any other college or university in the nation. The UW is also the top-ranked university for sending graduate students to the organization. Since 1961, the University has sent 2,504 volunteers into the Peace Corps. Currently there are more than 8,000 volunteers in the field, the highest total in 37 years.
Rank Number of Alumni Volunteers
1 University of Washington 113
2 University of Wisconsin-Madison 99
3 University of Colorado at Boulder 94
4 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 81
5 (tie) Michigan State University 80
University of Michigan 80
7 University of Texas at Austin 78
8 University of California, Berkeley 75
9 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 71
10 University of Oregon 67
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