As a supplement to Completing College: A National View of Student Attainment Rates–Fall
2009 Cohort (https://nscresearchcenter. org/signaturereport10)(2015), hereafter “Completing
College,” this report focuses on six-year student success outcomes and college completion
rates by state. The results are displayed in three sets of tables organized by institution type,
showing each state's outcomes for students who started postsecondary education at four-
year public institutions, two-year public institutions, and four-year private nonprofit …

This second annual report on national college completions rates continues to respond to the
limitations of institution-based research by focusing on student-level data, tracking the
completion of postsecondary certificates and degrees among first-time degree-seeking
students who started their postsecondary education in fall 2007 and tracking their
enrollments nationwide for six years, through the spring of 2013. The report also introduces
an enhancement to the first Completions Report by including in the cohort students who …

This report on national college completion rates offers a look at the six-year outcomes for
students who began postsecondary education in Fall 2011. It looks at the various pathways
students took toward degree completion, as well as the completion rates through June 2017
for the different groups of students who followed each pathway.