Four-Year Colleges and Universities Report Over Half of Undergraduate Students Completed Degrees Within 8 Years
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- More than half of undergraduate students who entered a four-year, degree-granting U.S. postsecondary institution in 2014-15 – 54 percent –completed their degree or certificate at the institution where they started within 8 years, according to provisional data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center within the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The comparable figure for completion for undergraduate students who entered four-year degree granting postsecondary institutions the prior year (2013-14) was 52 percent.
- The comparable figure for completion for undergraduate students who entered four-year degree granting postsecondary institutions the prior year (2013-14) was 52 percent.
- At two-year degree granting postsecondary institutions in the U.S., 31 percent of undergraduate students completed a degree or certificate within 8 years of entering in 2014-15.
- For those who entered two-year institutions one year earlier (2013-14), 30 percent completed a degree or certificate within 8 years.
- They reflect outcomes for the cohort of degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduate students who began postsecondary education in 2014-15.