Note: Only degree-granting U.S. colleges that are eligible to participate in Title IV federal financial-aid programs, with at least 50 students in the degree-seeking cohort, are included. Four-year graduation rates reflect the percentage of first-time, full-time, bachelor’s-degree-seeking students who entered in the fall of 2013 and completed bachelor’s or equivalent degrees at the same institution within four years (by August 31, 2017). Those are the latest available data for four-year graduation rates. Cohorts are adjusted to exclude students who died, were permanently disabled, or left to serve in the military or with a foreign-aid agency or official church mission. Students who transferred and then graduated from another institution are not counted as having graduated. Colleges’ residential category is based on the “size and setting” classification of the 2018 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. “Highly residential” campuses are those where more than 50 percent of degree-seeking undergraduates live on campus and more than 80 percent of those students attend full time. “Primarily residential” campuses are those where 25 percent to 49 percent of degree-seeking undergraduates live on campus and at least 50 percent attend full time. “Primarily nonresidential” campuses are those where fewer than a quarter of degree-seeking undergraduates live on campus or more than half of the students attend part time. Percentages are rounded, but ranks are ordered on the basis of unrounded figures.
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data Get the data