by NSC Research Center | Jul 10, 2019 | 2019, National, Persistence, Postsecondary, Snapshot Report
First-Year Persistence and Retention for Fall 2017 Cohort Of the 3.5 million students who enrolled in college for the first time in fall 2017, 74 percent or 2.6 million students persisted as of fall 2018. The overall first-year persistence rate has improved slightly,...
by NSC Research Center | May 30, 2019 | 2019, Current Enrollment, Current Term Enrollment Estimates, National, Postsecondary
Overview In spring 2019, overall postsecondary enrollments decreased 1.7 percent from the previous spring. Figure 1 shows the 12-month percentage change (fall-to-fall and spring-to-spring) for each term over the last three years. Enrollments increased 3.2 percent at...
by NSC Research Center | Apr 4, 2019 | 2019, National, Postsecondary, Progress, Snapshot Report
This snapshot goes beyond traditional measures of postsecondary attainment by tracking the fall 2012 entering cohort over time, and showing persistence, stop-out, and completion rates at the end of each subsequent academic year. The model tracks outcomes for both...
by NSC Research Center | Mar 6, 2019 | 2019, Completions, Postsecondary, Signature Report, State
In the state supplement to our seventh annual report on national college completion rates, we take a state-by-state look at the six-year outcomes for students who began postsecondary education in fall 2012. Download Report (pdf) Results Data Tables (xlsx) Appendix A...
by NSC Research Center | Feb 20, 2019 | 2019, Completions, National, Postsecondary, Reports, Undergraduate Degree Earners Report
First-Time Graduates and Graduates with Prior Awards The number of students earning their first undergraduate degree in 2017-18 (first-time graduates) was 2,254,846, an increase of 1.5 percent compared to 2016-17 (Figure 1). The number of graduates earning their...
by NSC Research Center | Feb 12, 2019 | 2019, Completions, National, Postsecondary, Signature Report
This supplemental feature to our Signature Report on College Completions released in December 2016, contains an analysis of the eight-year completion outcomes for the fall 2010 cohort. In our previous signature reports on college completions, we provided a brief...
