Purdue freshman retention rate

boneh3ad
Mon, 17 May 2010 21:25:09 +0000

aglages:

Is it reasonable to assume the “better” college engineering programs graduate a higher percentage of their engineering students in 6 years?



Not really. It is more dependent on public vs. private and large vs. small than anything else.



aglages:

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.



Not necessarily. The vast majority of people who drop out of engineering do so in the first two years, with more of them being the first year than the second. The engineering population levels out after 3 or 4 semesters and there isn’t usually an appreciable change in total size.