Purdue freshman retention rate

aglages
Mon, 17 May 2010 21:09:10 +0000

bigtrees:

In general, only about 50% of incoming freshman will graduate in engineering within 6 years of the time that they initially applied. Whether they drop out after 1 semester, 2 semesters, 3 semesters, I have no idea.

Is it reasonable to assume the “better” college engineering programs graduate a higher percentage of their engineering students in 6 years? If the overall graduation rate for freshman college students is 50%, wouldn’t there be some programs below 50% to compensate for the better programs that graduate 66%+? If Purdue loses 50% of it’s engineering students before their sophomore year, what is the 6 year graduation rate for those students? It seems as though it would be substantially less.