New report shows Kentucky leads the way in improving 6-year college completion rates

Kentucky’s beneficial properties in six-year school completion charges tied for second finest within the nation, in line with a Nationwide Scholar Clearinghouse Analysis Middle report.

Finishing School: Nationwide and State Experiences updates the six-year school completion charges nationally and for every state by monitoring the enrollment and completion outcomes for the autumn 2016 cohort of starting school college students by June 2022.

Kentucky’s six-year school completion charge elevated by 1.1 proportion factors, making it certainly one of solely 5 states that noticed beneficial properties of 1 proportion level or extra. Though six-year completion charges improved in over half of states, solely Kentucky, Rhode Island at 2.1 proportion factors, Utah at 1.1 proportion factors, Louisiana and Maryland, each at 1 proportion level, noticed beneficial properties of 1 proportion level or extra.

“These knowledge present that Kentucky is main the pack in rising school completion charges, and that could be a testomony to our campuses’ and state leaders’ dedication to making sure each Kentuckian has entry to the sources they should succeed—no matter revenue or background,” stated Council on Postsecondary Training President Aaron Thompson. “Right here at CPE, we’ve doubled down on our funding in serving to our establishments meet college students’ wants—whether or not they be tutorial, social, emotional and even fundamental wants like meals and housing—in order that they have the assist they should make it to commencement.”

Breaking down the information, Kentucky was certainly one of simply 4 states that grew completion charges at group schools by greater than 2.5 proportion factors. Kentucky’s group school completion charge elevated by 3 proportion factors, the second highest achieve within the nation after South Dakota with beneficial properties of 4.1 proportion factors.

The nationwide completion charge counts all college students who enter postsecondary training for the primary time every fall, enroll full-time or part-time at two-year or four-year establishments and full at any U.S. degree-granting establishment. The info additionally embrace details about college students who full after switch, along with those that full at their beginning establishment. These knowledge extra precisely seize scholar success, which more and more includes mobility throughout establishments, re-entry after stop-out and modifications in enrollment intensities.

Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Training