Completion rates reach 8-year high, report finds – Education Dive

Dive Brief:

• Nearly 60% of students who entered college in 2013 earned a credential within six years, raising the completion rate to an eight-year high, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC).
• Three major institution types — public and private four-years and public two-years — all reached their highest completion rates since the NSCRC began tracking such data, starting with the 2006 cohort.
• However, completion rates for Hispanic and African-American students still lag that of white and Asian students, and adult students are completing at lower rates than their peers in the traditional college-age range.

Dive Insight:

The rise in completion rates marks the fourth-straight year of growth, suggesting that “institutional efforts to improve retention, progression and success from the start of each student’s college career are increasingly effective,” Doug Shapiro, executive director of NSCRC, said in a statement.

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