LELAND'S JOURNAL

The Corps Score

November/December 1997

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For 36 years, the Peace Corps has sent college graduates overseas to teach children, build communities and fight hunger and disease. Now the agency has released a list of the schools that have produced the greatest number of Peace Corps volunteers. Stanford ranks tenth (yes, they ranked first), second among private colleges and universities. The top ten:

UC-Berkeley 2,960
University of Wisconsin-Madison 2,237
University of Washington 1,990
Harvard 1,966
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 1,821
Michigan State University 1,756
University of Colorado-Boulder 1,633
University of Illinois-Urbana 1,550
UCLA 1,445
Stanford 1,240

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