Graduation rate

[Hwt673]

Has anyone seen graduation statistics on UMPI YourPace degrees?

[rachel83az]

If it helps any, I don't think anyone from this forum has dropped out fully. Maybe I just don't remember if they have. But 1 or 2 out of dozens would still be pretty good odds.

[grogers14]

Has anyone seen graduation statistics on UMPI YourPace degrees?

So graduation rate for any college with online, degree completion, adult learner type programs might not always be a good reflection on the quality of the program. 

A quick google , according to the US Dept. of Ed. " Graduation rate is the percentage of a school's first-time, first-year undergraduate students who complete their program within 150% of the published time for the program. For example, for a four-year degree program, entering students who complete within six years are counted as graduates." 

So transfer students aren't factored into graduation rate. Programs like  WGU, Capella, U of PHX , etc. which are geared mostly towards undergraduate degree completion could have a sad graduation rate of like 11% , but that doesn't mean people don't graduate from their programs in a timely fashion. 

I dont know if UMPI has this data , but you could ask about like average degree completion time through YourPace, or how many degrees have been granted through YourPace.

[Duneranger]

Grad rates for low barrier to entry (not a bad thing) online schools are sort of irrelevant. People come and go for various reasons. People also hop schools A LOT more than they used to

[PrettyFlyforaChiGuy]

The 2021-22 Common Data Set for UMPI as a whole is available on the Common Data Set 21-22. The total UMPI graduation rate seems to hover around 35%. Irrelevant aside: there was only one single applicant who was not admitted. That poor soul.

I can't find raw YourPace data, whether checking their Common Data Set or IPEDS. That's not super surprising. However, this file notes that the rate of competency completion for HTY/POS and Accounting courses (87%) is higher than UMPI's equivalent completion rate in those traditional programs (83%).

That previous file provides slightly different numbers, but this Fall 2022 self-study "as reflected in UMPI’s Data First data, the growth of YourPace programs has been rapid and impressive. In fall 2018, total credit hours were 1,143. In fall 2019, they were 1,182. In fall 2020, they were 2,091, and in fall 2021 they reached 3,886." This shows that YourPace students are churning out success, but I'm unsure how much of this increase could be explained just by increased enrollment.

But yeah, since YourPace students represent 25% of UMPI's entire student body now, they're completing competencies at a higher rate, the number of credit hours being generated is rocketing upward, and they're transferring in other credit to boot, I'd guess we can assume that the YourPace rate would be higher than that the overall 35%. 

[bjcheung77]

Graduation rates are just a portion of the statistics you want to review, it's an overview of the institution, I wouldn't put too much weight on any of these as it's very skewed. An example why is that some students start their education, but their rates to graduation is different do to 'commitments, life happens, etc' and other various variables...