Graduation Rates for Popular Online Colleges

[ashkir]

UMPI publishes their graduation rates. IT's done based upon a 6 year cohort. https://www.umpi.edu/about-umpi/common-data-set/

Their data shows a lot like part/full time and year breakdowns. They only rejected 7 people last year for example.

So 2014 graduation is their last full data set:
33% graduated with a Pell Grant covering 100% of expenses.
29% graduated with Student Loans (Stafford)
37% graduated who paid out of pocket
34% graduated overall

According to Scorecard which uses 8yrs of data:
UMPI Full-time graduation rate for first-time students is 42% and 62% for transfers.  49% overall

Some of these brick-and-mortar community colleges act as feeder schools for other schools so their graduation rate will take a hit when their students transfer out and go to other schools to finish their degrees.

It's not surprising considering that, I found the 62% too! It's pretty cool. UMPI is usually used as people's backup school, not the first choice for brick and mortar. So once they have enough credit and a good GPA I would not be surprised if they transferred to a bigger name for the name.

I am curious of what the CBE graduation rates would be! I wonder if they'd publish those.