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Appendix D
Georgetown and its peer institutions
Compiled by Peter Pulsifer, 27 August 2000.
The table below lists information about Georgetown University and the institutions with which it competes for applicants ("peer institutions"). Despite community requests, the University has never supplied a list of peer institutions. Those listed here are the 15 institutions with which Georgetown shared the greatest number of applications in 1999 and in 1990, as published in the Chronicle of Higher Education on January 28, 2000. There are actually 18 institutions listed because of differences between the 1990 and 1999 lists. Institutions are listed in order of the percentage of undergraduates housed on campus. (The percentage housed at Georgetown differs from the figures submitted for the campus plan because certain students were excluded in obtaining the "traditional undergraduate full-time" count for the campus plan.) All figures in the table (except "US News") were obtained from the Barrons 2001 College Guide.
Listed are the percentage of undergraduates from out of state, the total undergraduate and graduate enrollment of each school, the number of dormitory beds, the percentage of undergraduates housed on campus, and the cost for tuition, and for room and board. Also listed are indications of the quality and selectivity of the institutions (admittedly a subjective concept):
- The ranking in the 2000 US News & World Report annual list of "National Universities". (In this list, only the top 50 are given numerical rankings; institutions ranked in the second 50 are marked "2T", for "second tier").
- The percentage of total applicants that were admitted (lower numbers are more selective), and the percentage of those admitted students who actually enrolled at the school (higher numbers indicate greater popularity with qualified applicants).
The table shows:
- Georgetown University is in the lower range of its peers in terms of providing on-campus housing for its undergraduates.
- There is a rough correlation between desirability and housing: the more housing, the higher the institution's ranking and the more popular with applicants.
In Appendix H of the 1990 campus plan, the University stated that it was "committed to increasing the percentage of students living on campus, not only in response to community concerns but, more importantly, because the University believes that on-campus residence as a member of an academic community is a critical component of a student's university experience. To this end, the University has adopted as a long-term goal, the ability to provide housing for 100% of its undergraduate students on campus."
The data presented here seem to show that the 1990 campus plan's approach has merit.
Appendix D Table:
Georgetown and its peer institutions, ranked by percentage of undergraduates housed on campus.
| Institution | % out-of-state | Total FT undergrads | Total PT undergrads | Total Grad students | Dorm beds | % on-campus | Tuition | Resident cost | US News | % Admitted | % Enrolled |
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| 1. | Princeton U. | 86% | 4600 | 0 | 1730 | 4400 | 98% | $24,700 | $7,000 | 4 | 11% | 69% |
| 2. | Harvard U. | 81% | 6692 | 12 | 10971 | 6325 | 97% | $24,407 | $7,757 | 2 | 11% | 80% |
| 3. | Stanford U. | 51% | 6594 | 0 | 9044 | 9500 | 94% | $23,058 | $7,881 | 6 | 15% | 65% |
| 4. | Columbia U. | 77% | 3913 | 0 | 0 | | 90% | $24,974 | $7,732 | 10 | 14% | 55% |
| 5. | Yale U. | 90% | 5257 | 0 | 5733 | 4690 | 85% | $24,500 | $7,440 | 4 | 16% | 65% |
| 6. | Brown U. | 97% | 5777 | 331 | 1650 | 4331 | 85% | $25,372 | $7,094 | 14 | 17% | 56% |
| 7. | U. of Notre Dame | 91% | 7983 | 31 | 2640 | 6242 | 85% | $22,187 | $5,750 | 19 | 35% | 56% |
| 8. | Duke U | 87% | 6322 | 46 | 5443 | 5476 | 81% | $24,751 | $7,088 | 7 | 28% | 43% |
| 9. | Tufts U. | 75% | 4931 | 46 | 4292 | 3550 | 75% | $24,751 | $7,375 | 29 | 32% | 31% |
| 10. | Boston College | 73% | 9190 | 0 | 4663 | 6475 | 74% | $22,256 | $8,250 | 39 | 35% | 33% |
| 11. | Georgetown U. | 99% | 6085 | 276 | 6137 | 4270 | 67% | $23,295 | $8,693 | 23 | 23% | 49% |
| 12. | American U. | 87% | 4761 | 772 | 4048 | 3500 | 65% | $20,373 | $7,982 | 2T | 74% | 21% |
| 13. | Boston U. | 77% | 15873 | 2145 | 10469 | 9539 | 64% | $24,100 | $8,130 | 2T | 55% | 27% |
| 14. | New York U. | 47% | 15983 | 2221 | 18928 | 9000 | 60% | $23,456 | $8,676 | 34 | 32% | 38% |
| 15. | George Washington U. | 92% | 7427 | 1268 | 11651 | 4243 | 58% | $23,960 | $8,210 | 2T | 49% | 30% |
| 16. | Cornell U. | 58% | 13669 | 0 | 5352 | 7381 | 56% | $23,848 | $7,827 | 11 | 33% | 48% |
| 17. | U. of Pennsylvania | | 9323 | 504 | 9985 | 6500 | 53% | $24,230 | $7,362 | 7 | 26% | 54% |
| 18. | U. of California at Berkeley | 11% | 22705 | 0 | 8642 | 5000 | n.a. | $13,802 | $8,266 | 20 | 28% | 44% |
| 19. | U. of Virginia | 32% | 12640 | 930 | 8863 | 6875 | n.a. | $16,603 | $4,589 | 22 | 34% | 52% |
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