How Will the Next Recession Impact U.S. College Enrollment, Persistence and Completions?
Discover how the Research Center’s data may help clarify how postsecondary pathways transpire during a recession.
Overall College Completion Rate Rises in 43 States; Top-to-Bottom Gap Narrows
Completing College State Report shows a rise or stable overall college completion rate in 46 states and a narrowing of the top-to-bottom state completion rates.
National Six-Year and Eight-Year College Completion Rates Reach New Highs, 59.7% and 61.8%, Respectively
The completion rates of the more than 2.3 million students who entered postsecondary education for the first time in the fall of 2013 increased across all types of starting institutions.
Research Center Releases Completing College: A State-Level View of Student Completion Rates
These outcomes provide context for institutions and state policy researchers around their own results as well as an understanding of where to look for best practices among their peers.
Latest State-Level Completion Rates Includes Race and Ethnicity For First Time Students at 4-Year Public Institutions
The Research Center’s Completing College: A State-Level View of Student Completion Rates, which includes for the first-time, state-level completion results by race and ethnicity for four-year public institutions, provides a state-by-state look at the six-year outcomes for students who began postsecondary education in fall 2012.
New Report: Multi-Year Trend Shows College Students Graduating with Prior Credential Increases by 4.4 Percent
Students with prior credentials are gradually making up a bigger share of the bachelor’s degree earner population, according to a new Research Center report.
60 Percent of All College Students Graduate with a Bachelor’s, Associate or Certificate Degree within Eight Years
Research Center’s College Completions Signature Report series now includes an expanded examination of the eight-year completion outcomes.
National Six-Year Completion Rate Reaches Highest Level, 58.3 Percent, Since the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Began Tracking
The seventh annual report on national college completion rates offers a look at the six-year outcomes for students who began postsecondary education in fall 2012.
Clearinghouse Data Helps Brigham Young University’s Salt Lake Center Understand Non-Traditional Students
Brigham Young University Salt Lake Center’s Scott L. Howell and Julie Swallow discuss how they leveraged Clearinghouse data to analyze, understand, and connect with non-traditional students while exposing administrators to the changing realities of higher education.
Only 60,000 of More Than 1 Million Community College Students Transferred With a Credential, Research Center’s Transfer and Mobility Report Reveals
This report analyzes student enrollment patterns across two-year and four-year, public and private institutions, and examines the distribution of transfers and mobility across state lines and over multiple years.
