Admission Rate/Graduation Rate

CMA22
Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:46:32 +0000

The overall graduation rate can be affected by SO many things that it is hard to compare apples to apples looking at the number for the entire school.

My D22’s school produces a report and numbers can vary a great deal within the school.

For instance, the overall grad rate is at 70%, but the Honors College grad rate is somewhere like 85% or more. Just checked - it is over 90%. Rates for Pell Grant recipients and under-represented minorities are lower 70% — unless they are in the Honors College. Rates for students in the College of Engineering are higher than in other colleges. And I don’t know how many students are traditional on-campus students versus the growing segment of 100% online students.

So the number at a particular school can be a reflection of the number of engineering versus non-engineering students it has, the percent of the student body that receives Pell Grants, etc. Because that can vary so much school-to-school, it is hard to do a side-by-side comparison.

And now the cohorts will reflect COVID years, which could skew the results more based on geography, school policy, number of international students who withdrew, etc.