Continuing Student enrollment The third factor determining total enrollment is the number of college students who continue to enroll at the same university after their first year and subsequent years until graduating.. All postsecondary institutions are required annually to report institutional data to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) as a Title IV fulfillment. A university’s retention and persistence rates are two measures. The persistence rate is the percentage of new first time students who return to any college for their second year, while the retention rate is the percentage of students who return to the same institution. United States First-year Persistence and Retention rates by age: <20 years, 20-24 years, >24 years
Source: https://nscresearchcenter.org/snapshotreport-persistenceretention22/
National retention and persistence rates for traditional age students haven’t changed since 2009, although they remain the highest for the three age groups. Both retention and persistence for non-traditional students have continued to hover in the high 40s and low 50s percent.
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