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 |
