Certificate and Associate Degrees – 2016 (PDF)
Of all associate degrees reported to the National Student Clearinghouse for the 2009-10 academic year, 536,351 were earned by students with no previous degrees or certificates. Within the next six academic years, over 64 percent of these students enrolled at a...Completing College – 2023 (PDF)
Completing College – 2023 (PDF) As the twelfth in the Completing College series, this report updates the six-year college completion rates nationally and by state, by tracking the enrollment and completion outcomes for the fall 2017 cohort of beginning college...
Yearly Success and Progress Rates – 2018 (PDF)
Shows yearly success and progress rates for individuals who began college in Fall 2011 as full-time degree-seeking students. It shows the highest level of academic progress made by these students at the end of each subsequent academic...
Yearly Success and Progress Rates – 2016 (PDF)
The data shows yearly success and progress rates for individuals who began college in Fall 2009 as full-time degree-seeking students. It shows the highest level of academic progress made by these students at the end of each subsequent academic...
Yearly Success and Progress Rates – 2017 (PDF)
Shows yearly success and progress rates for individuals who began college in Fall 2010 as full-time degree-seeking students. It shows the highest level of academic progress made by these students at the end of each subsequent academic...
Degree Pathways – 2015 (PDF)
Of all associate degrees earned in 2008-09 that were reported to the National Student Clearinghouse, 488,046 were found to be the first postsecondary credential earned by a student. Forty-one percent of these students went on to earn a bachelor’s degree within six...Yearly Success and Progress Rates – 2020 (PDF)
Yearly Success and Progress Rates - 2020 (PDF) The Yearly Success and Progress Rates report goes beyond traditional student outcome measures by showing year-by-year rates of retention, persistence, transfer, completion, and stop-out. The report is designed to help...
Yearly Success and Progress Rates – 2019 (PDF)
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...
High School Benchmarks – 2014
Our second annual report provides high school-to-college transition rates for graduates of public non-charter, public charter, and private high schools. For students of public non-charter high schools the rates are reported in 12 categories based on the school-level demographic and geographic characteristics.
Post-Bachelor’s Two Year Enrollment – 2016 (PDF)
During the Great Recession, there was a slight increase in the percentage of bachelor’s degree earners who opted to continue their educations at two-year institutions. However, that percentage has now dropped well below pre-recession levels, with only 5.8 percent of...
Completing College – State – 2013 (PDF)
As a supplement to Completing College: A National View of Student Attainment Rates, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s fourth publication in the Signature Report series, this report focuses on six-year student success outcomes and college completion...
NSC as an Integral Part of the National Postsecondary Data Infrastructure (PDF)
This paper is part of the larger series Envisioning the National Postsecondary Data Infrastructure in the 21st Century. In August 2015, the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) first convened a working group of national postsecondary data experts to discuss...
Science and Engineering Degree Attainment – By Gender- 2013 (PDF)
Over the last five years, the overall number of science and engineering (S&E) bachelor’s degree completions has grown by 19%, compared to 9% growth for non-S&E disciplines. Among women, S&E bachelor’s degree completions grew by 20%, compared to 12%...