Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ is the top Peace Corps Volunteer-Producing Small College for 2026.
For the second year in a row, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ ranks as the number one for institutions with fewer than 5,000 undergraduate students. This ranking considers the number of alumni serving as Peace Corps volunteers from October 2024 through September 2025.
Seventeen Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ alumni served in 12 countries this past year, including Albania/Montenegro, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
These alumni volunteers join a long history of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and the Peace Corps. In 1962, Sue Hoyt Aiken ’62 was the first Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ graduate to join the Peace Corps, and since then, 410 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ alumni have served around the world as Peace Corps volunteers. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ is also one of only a few liberal arts colleges in the United States to offer the Peace Corps Prep Program, a pathway program jointly administered by the Career Center and the Advising Hub.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ was named a Top Producing Small College in 2025 when 13 alumni served as Peace Corps volunteers. In 2024, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ ranked seventh on the Top Small Colleges and Universities Historically Producing the Most Peace Corps Volunteers .
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Kenyon College, Macalester College, and Carleton College earned the second through fifth place rankings, respectively, for the 2026 Top Producing Small Colleges list.
