--- title: Online Dating: Best And Worst College Alumni To Date description: Colgate has the most dateable alums, according to a new survey of people in New York and San Francisco canonical: https://time.com/3476328/survey-dateable-college-alumni/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-08T12:00:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:37.944Z og:title: These Colleges Have the Most and Least Dateable Alumni og:description: Colgate has the most datable alums, according to a new survey og:url: https://time.com/3476328/survey-dateable-college-alumni/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3634a0d379d28121/6986a743810bbb56e1c93cf5/ba62505.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: BA62505 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Colleges Have the Most and Least Dateable Alumni twitter:description: Colgate has the most datable alums, according to a new survey twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3634a0d379d28121/6986a743810bbb56e1c93cf5/ba62505.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # These Colleges Have the Most and Least Dateable Alumni by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Oct 8, 2014 12:00 PM UTC  Toasting wine glasses Toasting wine glassesGetty Images by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Oct 8, 2014 12:00 PM UTC There’s an abundant stream of college rankings based on anything from “[smartest](http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2013/12/28/the-20-colleges-with-the-smartest-students/)” students to [“sexxxiest”](http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2013/10/16/20-sexiest-colleges-photos.html) students to the mythical students who are “[both hot and smart.](http://www.businessinsider.com/colleges-students-both-hot-and-smart-2014-3?op=1)” But if you thought these never-ending lists are enough to consult for an ideal dinner date — you might want to check out one more ranking before making that reservation. Paid matchmaking service [The Dating Ring](https://datingring.com/) collected 7,500 date feedback reports from 1,600 people over an 18-month period to see which college alumni served as the most enjoyable dates. Datability scores were calculated based on the percent of people who said that they would opt for a second date and ranged from 17% (for Babson College) to 81% (for Colgate University). **The Best:** 1. Colgate University 2. Lehigh University 3. University of Texas Austin 4. University of Southern California 5. McGill University 6. University of Delaware 7. San Francisco State University 8. Boston University 9. Northwestern University 10. Williams College **The Worst:** 1. Babson College 2. University of Chicago 3. Rutgers University 4. University of Washington 5. Michigan State University 6. SUNY, Binghamton (Binghamton University) 7. University of California, Berkeley 8. University of Pennsylvania 9. Princeton University 10. University of California, Santa Barbara Of course, there are caveats. While 316 different colleges were represented, the results weren’t representative of the whole country. 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