The "6 year" graduation rate

rjkofnovi
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:37:42 +0000

“So your point @rjkofnovi is that an additional 8 hours of credit requires a full year of time in school?”

No. My point is it might take an additional quarter or semester of schooling to complete a degree in engineering. That being the case, the student would not graduate within four years and subsequently make the school look a bit weaker. Strong schools that have large engineering programs, way more times than not, will have lower four year graduation rates than those other strong schools who don’t. Look at the listing provided in post #35. Notice that even MIT and Caltech have lower 4 year graduation rates than their peer schools who typically have a much lower percentage of students studying in the discipline.