Top Colleges and Universities Contributing to Teach For America's 2008 Teaching Corps

Teach For America is building the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting our nation’s future leaders in the effort. During the 2007-08 academic year, Teach For America saw a record 24,700 applicants. This Fall approximately 3,700 new corps members will start teaching in schools across our country. The 2008 corps comes from over 500 colleges and universities and 85 percent are graduating seniors. The schools that appear below are ranked by the number of graduating seniors they contributed to the 2008 corps.

Medium Schools (3,000-9,999)
Georgetown University 44
Duke University 43
Washington University in St. Louis 40
Harvard University 33
Yale University 33
University of Notre Dame 31
University of Pennsylvania 31
Brown University 28
College of William and Mary 28
Emory University 25
Stanford University 24
Columbia University 23
University of Chicago 23
Northwestern University 22
Princeton University 22
Tulane University 22
Gonzaga University 21
Loyola University Chicago 21
Vanderbilt University 21
University of Rochester 20

Small Schools (2,999 or under)
Wesleyan University 19
Barnard College 14
Mount Holyoke College 14
Spelman College 14
DePauw University 13
Trinity College-Connecticut 13
University of Richmond 12
Bowdoin College 11
Middlebury College 11
Denison University 10
Gustavus Adolphus College 9
Loyola University of New Orleans 9
Occidental College 9
Scripps College 9
Amherst College 8
Colorado College 8
Grinnell College 8
Lewis and Clark College 8
Macalester College 8
Rhodes College 8
Smith College 8
Wellesley College 8
Whitman College 8
Willamette University 8

Large Schools (10,000+ Undergrads)
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 79
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 57
University of Wisconsin-Madison 52
University of Georgia 49
University of Texas at Austin 47
University of California-Berkeley 46
George Washington University 44
Pennsylvania State University 42
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 42
Cornell University 41
University of Florida 37
University of California-Los Angeles 34
Syracuse University 31
Arizona State University Main 29
University of Southern California 29
New York University 28
University of Virginia 27
Florida State University 26
University of Arizona 26
University of Maryland-College Park 25
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 25
University of Missouri-Columbia 25