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from the May 9, 2008 edition

Fresh from college, Peace Corps volunteers scatter

Students at some of the largest and best-known universities in the US postpone their entry into their careers to serve two years overseas in the Peace Corps, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2011. The corps, however, draws its volunteers from schools of all sizes and keeps track of which ones send the most volunteers. Statistics are grouped according to school size: large (more than 15,000 undergraduates), medium (5,000 to 15,000), and small (fewer than 5,000). The colleges and universities that produced the most Peace Corps volunteers last year in each of the three categories, with the numbers from each school:

Large schools
• University of Washington 113
• University of Wisconsin (Madison) 99
• University of Colorado at Boulder 94
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 81

Medium-size schools
• University of Virginia 72
• George Washington University 66
• Western Washington University 53
• Cornell 52

Small schools
• University of Chicago 34
• Gonzaga University 32
• Willamette University 27
• University of Puget Sound 26