Re: data on college graduation rates

[Peter Campbell <campbellp@mail.montclair.edu>]

As I dig deeper, I get closer to what I'm looking for  . . . but not  
exactly.

If you go to http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/index.asp, you can select  
"Any" for the search fields and select "Public, 4-year or above" from  
"Type of institution."

If you do so, you get a list of 672 institutions. If you click on the  
linked name of one the institutions, it takes you to a detailed  
analysis of that institution. At the top of the page is a link to  
"Graduation Rates."

Voila.

But why is there no top-level, aggregation of all these data?

Anyone out there looking for a project????

:-)

Peter

On Apr 10, 2006, at 9:52 AM, WMZEMKA@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/10/2006 8:26:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
> campbellp@mail.montclair.edu writes:
> Can anyone point me to some reliable sources or studies
> on the drop-out/graduation rate at public and private 4-year
> universities as a whole? How does this translate into lost dollars
> per year?
> Peter,
> I don't think this data is kept publicly.  Maybe individual schools  
> have it.  I can search, in VA, for the number of freshmen entering  
> each year.  There was a study about 7 years ago in VA but the data  
> were very unreliable; kids simply aren't tracked like they are in  
> high school.
> Mickey