The "6 year" graduation rate

rjkofnovi
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:51:18 +0000

“Michigan … 76% … 16%”

Over 20% of undergraduates at Michigan are engineering majors. I noticed Kiplinger’s got Princeton’s percentages correct, but completely screwed up on Michigan’s. So much for accuracy. I have to wonder what else they screwed up on with these figures?

Enrollment figures from winter semester 2015:

http://www.ro.umich.edu/report/15wn105.pdf

27,047 undergraduate students enrolled, including 5,709 of them in the College of engineering.

Michigan has 21.1% of its undergraduate student body enrolled in engineering. That 16% figure is not even close to being accurate. Both Princeton and Michigan have comparable percentages of students enrolled in undergraduate engineering. Here is an example where you can see that the quality of the student body in a comparable discipline is a bit higher at Princeton, which of course comes as no surpise.