More news on completion rates from the CEO of the American Association of Community College Trustees:
A
new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
examines pathways that students take toward college completion. The
"new and improved data," according to
Inside Higher Ed,
"show that America is doing better on college completion than had
previously been revealed." The report reveals important and sometimes
surprising findings.
Among the study's findings:
- Within six years, 12 percent of first-time students completed a degree or certificate at an institution other than the one where they started, raising the overall completion rate from 42 to 54 percent.
- More than one in five students who completed a degree did so at an institution other than the one where they started - students whose successful outcomes are invisible to traditional graduation rate calculations.
- Out of the full starting cohort, 3.5 percent received a degree within six years in a state different from where they started representing 6.5 percent of all completions.
- Overall, 15 percent of two-year starters completed a degree at a four-year institution within six years, and nearly two-thirds of those did so without first obtaining a two-year degree.
- Gains from completions elsewhere were greater for traditional-age students (age 24 or younger at first entry) than for older students (age over 24 at first entry).
- Older students who enrolled exclusively part time actually had a higher completion rate than traditional-age part-time students.
Click here to access the report, and be sure to share the information with your college.
Keep in mind that the report is one piece of the enormously complex completion puzzle. ACCT will keep you informed of other new findings, resources, and tools as they are developed.
Sincerely,
J. Noah Brown, President and CEO
Association of Community College Trustees
(20,602)
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