Freshman
Retention & Graduation Rates
(ranked by avg freshman retention rate)
| Institution |
Freshman
Retention
|
4 YR
Graduation Rate
|
5 yr
Graduation Rate
|
6 yr
Graduation Rate
|
| Cornell University |
96% |
87% |
92% |
93% |
| University of Florida |
95% |
56% |
77% |
82% |
| Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison |
94% |
51% |
79% |
82% |
| Univ. of Illinois – Urbana |
93% |
64% |
80% |
82% |
| Penn State Univ. |
93% |
60% |
82% |
85% |
| Univ. of Maryland |
93% |
63% |
80% |
82% |
| Univ. of Georgia |
93% |
51% |
75% |
80% |
| Georgia Institute of Tech. |
92% |
31% |
70% |
77% |
| Ohio State |
92% |
42% |
68% |
73% |
| Texas A&M Univ. |
92% |
41% |
73% |
78% |
| Michigan State |
91% |
47% |
72% |
75% |
| University of California – Davis |
90% |
47% |
77% |
81% |
| Virginia Polytechnical Institute |
90% |
52% |
75% |
78% |
| NC State Univ. |
89% |
37% |
64% |
70% |
| University of Minnesota |
87% |
41% |
61% |
66% |
| Purdue Univ. - Main Campus |
85% |
38% |
66% |
72% |
| Iowa State University |
85% |
34% |
63% |
67% |
Graduation
Rates: Percentage of freshmen who graduated within a six-year
period for most recent cohort. This excludes transfers into the
school.
Average
Freshman Retention Rate: Percentage of first-year freshmen who
returned to the same college or university the following fall,
averaged over the first-year classes entering between 2003 and
2006.
Source:US
News & World Reports College Comparisons, Fall 2009
For
more information e-mail: karen_helm@ncsu.edu