Alumni giving rate average

<p><strong>USN&WR Alumni Giving:</strong>  The nonweighted mean percentage of undergraduate alumni of record who donated money to the college or university. The percentage of alumni giving serves as a proxy for how satisfied students are with the school. A higher average alumni giving rate scores better than a lower rate in the ranking model.</p>

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<p>Following guidelines of reporting to the Voluntary Support of Education Survey, alumni of record are former full- or part-time students who received an undergraduate degree and for whom the college or university has a current address. Graduates who earned only a graduate degree are excluded.</p>

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<p>Undergraduate alumni donors are alumni with undergraduate degrees from an institution who made one or more gifts for either current operations or capital expenses during the specified academic year.</p>

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<p>The alumni giving rate is calculated by dividing the number of alumni donors during a given academic year by the number of alumni of record for that same year. The two most recent years of alumni giving rates that are available are averaged (added together and divided by two) and used in the rankings. </p>

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