4-Year Graduation Rates: Should they be more broadly disclosed?

sybbie719 · May 10, 2007, 10:53pm

also, does it take into consideration students who are in 5 year plans, for example, you listed Dartmouth as having a 84% graduation rate. For students who are in the engineering program, it is a 5 year program so these students would not be graduating in 4 years (they would get an AB the 4th year and complete the engineering degree the 5th year). This is also the case at a few other schools on your list.

For the most part graduation rates are calculated on 6 years not 4 because students change/transfer schools for a variety of reasons, as studnet615 stated students also disrupt their education for a variety or reasons, mostly financial, but alos often family situations at home.

I am looking at the numbers of the US news list (have a paid subscription) and your numbers seem to be off.

for 2005 they list the projected and actual graduation rates as follows:

Harvard University (MA) 
94% 98%
Princeton University (NJ) 
94% 97%
Yale University (CT) 
95% 96%
Brown University (RI) 
93% 95%
University of Notre Dame (IN) 
90% 95%
Dartmouth College (NH) 
93% 93%
Stanford University (CA) 
93% 94%
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 
95% 94%
University of Pennsylvania 
94% 94%
Duke University (NC) 
93% 93%
Columbia University (NY) 
93% 94%
Northwestern University (IL) 
91% 93%
Georgetown University (DC) 
90% 93%
University of Virginia * 
86% 93%
Cornell University (NY) 
90% 92%
Rice University (TX) 
93% 90%
Washington University in St. Louis 
90% 91%
College of William and Mary (VA) * 
84% 91%
Tufts University (MA) 
87% 90%
California Institute of Technology 
96% 90%
University of Chicago 
91% 91%
Johns Hopkins University (MD) 
89% 90%
Boston College 
83% 91%
Univ. of California—Los Angeles * 
88% 87%
Emory University (GA) 
93% 89%
University of California—Berkeley * 
90% 87%
Wake Forest University (NC) 
85% 88%
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor * 
77% 86%
Brandeis University (MA) 
86% 88%

Lehigh University ¶

Carnegie Mellon University ¶ 
88% 86%
U. of North Carolina—Chapel Hill * 
79% 84%

Pennsylvania State U.—University Park * 69% 84%
Univ. of Southern California 
85% 83%
University of Rochester (NY) 
83% 80%
U. of Illinois—Urbana - Champaign * 
74% 83%
New York University 
85% 83%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY) 
81% 81%
University of California—Irvine * 
79% 80%
Yeshiva University (NY) 
75% 82%
Miami University—Oxford (OH) * 
67% 80%
University of California—Davis * 
80% 80%
University of Florida * 
78% 79%
Syracuse University (NY) 
73% 79%
SUNY—Binghamton * 
73% 79%
Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH) 
86% 77%
Univ. of Wisconsin—Madison * 
77% 78%
Pepperdine University (CA) 
78% 80%
Worcester Polytechnic Inst. (MA) 
78% 73%
Fordham University (NY) 
67% 78%
Marquette University (WI) 
71% 80%
Univ. of California—Santa Barbara * 
81% 79%
Boston University 
81% 77%
Texas A&M Univ.—College Station * 
70% 77%
University of Delaware * 
62% 76%
University of Dayton (OH) 
65% 79%
University of Washington * 
66% 74%
University of Texas—Austin * 
72% 75%
Univ. of Maryland—College Park * 
74% 76%
University of Georgia * 
74% 74%
Brigham Young Univ.—Provo (UT)

4-Year Graduation Rates: Should they be more broadly disclosed?

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