Overall grad rate 95% (90% in four years). 1% transfer-out rate. That leaves 4% who don’t finish in six years or I guess “drop out”, per most recent data. Also, 99% freshmen retention rate which means the other three percent are leaving later on. UChicago is distinctive for the Core, so you’d think the dropping out would happen early on, when everyone’s still trying to figure out the fast-paced quarter system, the humanities and other sequences they may not care for, and the grey Chicago winters.
In comparison, Harvard (just one example): 97% freshman retention rate, 97% six year grad rate (85% in four years), 0% transfer out. So 3% drop out but they do so right away rather than later on. I wonder why they don’t transfer. The rest who remain seem to want to hang around for a bit longer than they do at UChicago, since the four-year grad rate is lower.
I think these stats are fairly similar to one another. Not clear to me that either school has relatively more unhappy or depressed students than other schools.