Top Colleges and Universities Contributing TFA to Teach For America’s 2011 Teaching Corps

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. During the 2010-11 academic year, Teach For America received a record 48,000 applications—the largest applicant pool in its history—from graduating seniors, graduate students, and professionals. This fall, more than 5,200 new corps members will start teaching in 43 regions across the country. They represent more than 1,500 colleges and universities, and 77 percent are 2011 graduates. The schools below are ranked by the number of graduating seniors they contributed to the 2011 corps.*

Large Schools (10,000 or More Undergrads)** University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 119 University of Maryland-College Park 56 University of California-Berkeley 89 Pennsylvania State University-University Park 55 University of Texas at Austin 87 The Ohio State University-Main Campus 54 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 80 University of Pennsylvania 53 University of Florida 75 University of Georgia 50 University of Southern California 75 Cornell University 49 University of Wisconsin-Madison 70 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 48 University of Virginia 66 Boston University 46 University of Washington-Seattle 62 University of California-Santa Barbara 42 University of California-Los Angeles 61 Syracuse University-Main Campus 41

Medium Schools (3,000-9,999 Undergrads) Harvard University 66 Columbia University in the City of New York 36 Boston College 56 Dartmouth College 29 Georgetown University 54 Tulane University 28 Duke University 53 Howard University 25 Brown University 49 Johns Hopkins University 25 Northwestern University 49 Tufts University 25 Vanderbilt University 47 University of Chicago 24 Yale University 41 Princeton University 23 Stanford University 39 American University 22 Emory University 37 Washington University in St. Louis 22

Small Schools (2,999 or Fewer Undergrads) Spelman College 36 Wesleyan University 15 Wellesley College 24 Colorado College 14 Barnard College 21 Morehouse College 14 Amherst College 18 Mount Holyoke College 14 Claremont McKenna College 17 Pomona College 14 College of the Holy Cross 17 Smith College 14 DePauw University 16 Williams College 14 Colby College 15 Bates College 13 Trinity College (Connecticut) 15 University of Puget Sound 13

*Data as of June 14, 2011 **Categories are based on the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s basic size classification for colleges and universities