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80% Graduation Rate.
davezhan
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wikipedia.org wrote:Caltech has a relatively low four-year graduation rate, compared to most leading US universities. This rate is currently about 80 percent."
80% is pretty good for a top-tier tech school, which boasts an extremely rigorous curriculum. Think about it.
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It's a great university, though. I'm applying this autumn.
- Total number of students entering the university: 214
- Total number of students graduating in four years or less (before August 2005): 175 (81.8%)
- Total number of students graduating in five years or less (before August 2006): 189 (88.3%)
- Total number of students graduating in six years or less (before August 2007): 191 (89.3%)
...but I'm too lazy to look up the numbers for other universities, so I'm still not exactly sure how this compares. =P
Data for the class entering Caltech in Fall 1996:
- Total number of students entering the university: 216
- Total number of students graduating in four years or less (before August 2000): 156 (72.2%)
- Total number of students graduating in five years or less (before August 2001): 177 (81.9%)
- Total number of students graduating in six years or less (before August 2002): 183 (84.7%)
But this isn't really cause for concern, I think, because it's getting better. Clearly, if we assume that the rate of change of the four-year-graduation rate is constant, then the current prefroshies here should enjoy a four-year graduation rate of 97.1%. And by the entering class of 2011, more than 100% of entering freshmen will graduate on time! Yay!
I graduated last year, and I remember being surprised by how few of the entering freshmen in 2004 didn't get their degree in four years.
Stats (based off manually counting from http://pr.caltech.edu/commencement/08/bs.pdf with help from donut, facebook, and memory):
Entering freshmen: 212
Graduated in four years with honors: 96 (45.3%)
Graduated in four years without honors: 69 (32.5%)
Didn't graduate in four years: 47 (22.17%)
well we're certainly not georgia tech