For the first time in 21 years, the University of Wisconsin at Madison is not at the top of the Peace Corps’s annual list of the colleges and universities that have sent it the most graduates to serve as volunteers in other countries. The new No. 1 among large universities is the University of Washington, which produced 110 of this year’s volunteers, according to a news release issued this week. Wisconsin fell to second place, with 106, and the University of Colorado at Boulder was third, with 100. The top medium-size institution was George Washington University, and the University of Puget Sound led small institutions. Over all, the University of California at Berkeley has graduated the most volunteers since the Peace Corps was founded, in 1961, with 3,282.

Background articles from The Chronicle:

In Producing Volunteers for the Peace Corps, U. of Wisconsin at Madison Leads Again, 2/1/2006 Where Peace Corps Finds Its Volunteers, 3/5/2004 Wanted: Life Experience, 7/30/2004