U. of Colorado-Boulder Leads Ranking of Peace Corps Volunteers

The University of Colorado at Boulder has topped the Peace Corps’s annual ranking, released today, of the colleges and universities that sent the most volunteers to serve last year in the U.S. government program. According to a news release and list of top colleges, the Boulder campus sent 117 volunteers, leading the category of large colleges and universities. The Universities of Florida, Michigan, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Washington rounded out the top five. In the medium-college category, George Washington University and the University of Virginia were the top two, with 72 and 71 volunteers, respectively. The University of Mary Washington led the small-college category, with 32 volunteers. Over the Peace Corps’s 50-year history, the University of California at Berkeley has cumulatively provided the most volunteers of any college, with 3,457.