PROVIDENCE – A new study by the National Student Clearinghouse looked at the ways students achieve a college degree.
It found that the overall six-year completion rate for first-time, degree-seeking college students who first enrolled in 2008 was 55 percent, including 13 percent who finished at an institution other than where they started.
The total completion rates for students who started at each of the three largest institution categories ranged from 39.1 percent for students who started at two‐year public institutions to 62.8 percent for those who started at four‐year public institutions and 73.6 percent for students who started at four‐year private nonprofit institutions.