{"id":1191,"date":"2019-05-30T12:40:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2019-05-31T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:58:43","slug":"u-s-college-graduation-rates-costs-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/u-s-college-graduation-rates-costs-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. College Graduation Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Persistence, Retention, and Attainment of 2011\u201312 First-Time Beginning Postsecondary Students as of Spring 2017:&nbsp;First Look<\/em><\/strong>.  This First Look report provides findings from the&nbsp;<em>2012\/17 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study<\/em>, a national survey of undergraduate students entering postsecondary education for the first time.&nbsp;&nbsp;It looks at a cohort of beginning students over a six-year period of time, examining persistence, retention and attainment (degrees conferred).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The overall graduation rate for first-time, full-time undergraduate students who began seeking a bachelor\u2019s degree at a 4-year degree-granting institution in fall 2012 was 60 percent. That is, by 2017 approximately 60 percent of students had completed a bachelor\u2019s degree. The 6-year graduation rate was 59 percent at public institutions, 74 percent at private nonprofit institutions, and 14 percent at private for-profit institutions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Such low graduation rates are certainly cause for concern for a host of reasons, not the least because the 40% students not graduating have acquired student debt that cannot be offset by the value of having a degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following data examines postsecondary graduation rates over the past seven years by Institutional control: public, private non-profit, and private for-profit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-31-at-1.56.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-31-at-1.56.29-PM.png 676w, https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-31-at-1.56.29-PM-250x125.png 250w, https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-31-at-1.56.29-PM-120x60.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption>Data from The Conditions of Education (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/surveys.nces.ed.gov\/bb\/img\/IES_NCES_logo.png\">https:\/\/surveys.nces.ed.gov\/bb\/img\/IES_NCES_logo.png<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Postsecondary graduation rates in public institutions have stayed virtually the same for seven years, with 57% of students graduating in 2011 and 59% in 2017.&nbsp;&nbsp;Private non-profit institutions remained at 65-66% graduation for the first six years, increasing by 8 percentage points in 2017.&nbsp;&nbsp;Private for-profit institutions fared the worst, decreasing consistently from 42% in 2011 to 14% in 2017.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Citation:  <\/strong>Chen, X., Elliott, B.G., Kinney, S.K., Cooney, D., Pretlow, J., Bryan, M., Wu, J., Ramirez, N.A., and Campbell, T. (2019).&nbsp;<em>Persistence, Retention, and Attainment of 2011\u201312 First-Time Beginning Postsecondary Students as of Spring 2017&nbsp;<\/em>(First Look) (NCES 2019-401). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Link:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/pubs2019\/2019401.pdf\">https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/pubs2019\/2019401.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Persistence, Retention, and Attainment of 2011\u201312 First-Time Beginning Postsecondary Students as of Spring 2017:&nbsp;First Look. 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