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Degree Attainment Rates at Colleges & Universities: The Latest

Degree Attainment Rates at American Colleges and Universities
Alexander W. Astin & Leticia Oseguera
December 2002

This publication is a major revision of a similarly-titled monograph published by HERI in 1996. Using retention data for over 56,000 students attending 298 baccalaureate-granting institutions which administered the CIRP Freshman Survey in 1994, the authors examine the effect of various student and institutional characteristics on retention. The authors also develop a method for computing an "expected" retention rate based on entering student characteristics, and provide formulae that individual institutions can use to compute their own expected retention rates for comparison with their actual rates.

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