Tracking Transfer
Tracking Transfer Measures of Effectiveness in Helping Community College Students to Complete Bachelor’s Degrees Updated September 4, 2025 This series was first developed in 2016 as a collaborative effort among…
Transfer and Progress
…recovery with upward transfers among community college students increasing for the first time since the start of the pandemic. This report series was created to help educational leaders and policymakers…
Undergraduate Degree Earners – 2023 Appendix (XLSX)
Insights into undergraduate credential earners in the 2021-22 academic year by demographic and educational profiles….
SHEEO – NSCRC College Closures Report – 2022 (PDF)
The College Closures Report seeks to quantify the impacts of college closures on students’ subsequent postsecondary enrollment and completion outcomes and to identify the policy levers states may have to…
High School Benchmarks
…to college transition and earn a credential in a timely manner. The current report examines first-fall (immediate) college enrollment for the high school graduating class of 2024, persistence for the…
Current Term Enrollment Estimates – Fall 2023 Appendix (XLSX)
Undergraduate enrollment grew 1.2 percent (+176,000) in fall 2023, the first increase since the pandemic. Among the three largest sectors, growth was highest at community colleges, which gained 118,000 students…
Transfer and Progress – Fall 2022 (PDF)
A new series on pandemic recovery, enduring enrollment impacts for economically disadvantaged students, and early outcomes for pandemic-impacted community college beginners.
Undergraduate Degree Earners – 2022 Appendix (XLSX)
After the initial standstill in the growth of undergraduate degree earners at the start of the pandemic, the number of undergraduate degree earners has started to increase, continuing the pre-pandemic…
Current Term Enrollment Estimates – Spring 2023 Appendix (XLSX)
Community college enrollment grew slightly this spring (up 0.5%, 22,000 students from spring 2022), after large declines in the previous two years. A growing number of younger students, primarily dual…
Undergraduate Degree Earners – 2021 (PDF)
The total number of undergraduate credential earners in 2019-20 remained the same as the prior year, halting its steady annual rise for the first time since 2012-13 when tracking started….
Yearly Progress and Completion
…education in one of twelve cohorts (the fall semesters of 2008 through 2019). All full-time and part-time degree-seeking students at any U.S. degree-granting institution are included in this report. The…
Postsecondary Data Partnership Insights
…not complete in either a timely manner or at all, on several key early indicators. This report uses a sample of credential-seeking (associate/certificate or bachelor’s degree) full-time starters who first…
Persistence and Retention – 2020 (PDF)
Seventy-six percent of first-time freshmen in fall 2018 returned to college for their second year. This rate represents the third straight year of little improvement in this important early success…
Undergraduate Degree Earners – 2022 (PDF)
The total number of undergraduate credential earners increased by 1.1 percent or 39,000 to 3.7 million graduates. After a brief standstill in the previous year, graduate numbers began to rise…
Completing College – 2022 (PDF)
This is the eleventh report in the Completing College report series, featuring the completion trends nationally and for states, updated with the fall 2016 entering cohort’s six-year outcomes tracked through…