The people we tend to call “traditional” students finish high school, march to college, and keep at it until they graduate, more or less on schedule.
National data-collection systems are set up to track the progress of those people: first-time, full-time students who enroll in the fall and get degrees from the places they started, in at most three years for an associate degree or six for a bachelor’s.
Making Sense of Graduation Rates
How important are completion rates? The Chronicle‘s new site presents the numbers, puts them in context, and allows you to compare rates across the nation.
Completion in Context
The Rise and Fall of the Graduation Rate
The way students go to college now makes the government’s measure less useful than ever.
Do Completion Rates Really Measure Quality?
Seven experts assess the meaning behind the measurements.
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