Colleges
Graduation Rates for Four Year Schools
Notice anything about the following sentence? Graduation Rates Over Time: Private Research Institutions – Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education We compare here the graduation rates at four-year colleges for the six years ending in 2008 with the rates for the six years ending in 2003. This is showing the six year graduation rate [...]
Numbers that matter: college graduation rates
Another ranking system. the College Grid After helping numerous students with their college applications, we noticed a lack of useful tools to help manage the school selection process. We decided to build a website with a “top-down” approach to researching colleges. Within a week, the College Grid was born. It is improvement over the Princeton [...]
Colleges with 4-1-4 schedules
For those interested in colleges with a January term or “J” term, here’s a list based on information reported to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). I’ll work on getting the table cleaned up and completed as I can. Name ST Total Undergrads Graduate Rate Web Albright College PA 2165 50.9% www.albright.edu Alma College [...]
Because bigger is better…
I recently stumbled across this blog from the Fiske Guide website. He has an interesting link to report by Rice justifying why it needs to increase in size by 30%. Fiske Guide Blog But as one undergrad quoted in the report explains, “I feel that we are too small and that increasing by 30 percent [...]