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Retention and Graduation Rates

Student Retention Studies and Graduation Reports
Description: Retention Rates: The percentage of students who registered in the fall term who also registered the following fall term.
 
Graduation Rates: The percentage of a freshman cohort that graduates within a subsequent number of years.
Glossary of Terms: All Terminology definitions used in OIEP dashboards and reports.
Availability:

Official Retention and Graduation Rates Dashboards


Retention and Graduation Reports (PDF)

Production Schedule: Reports and dashboards are updated annually in November.
Data Source: Fall cohorts are based on the official fall student enrollment census. Graduation info is based on OIEP’s official degree conferred data.
Notes:

Many of our documents are in pdf format. If you do not have the free Acrobat Reader installed on your machine, you can download it from [Adobe Systems].