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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Less than half of the students graduate in four years and nearly a quarter don't even return for sophomore year.[/quote]

What you mean is "fewer than half of the students..."[/quote]

Right.  Fewer than half.  But unlike them, I actually graduated.[/quote]

Where is your cite? I don’t believe you [/quote]

Go to the College Navigator website. Look up Longwood University. Look at the tab for graduation and retention rates.

80% of full-time freshmen who started in fall 2023 returned for fall 2024.
48% of the full-time, first-time students starting in fall 2018 graduated in four years(spring 2022); 61% graduated in six years (spring 2024).
 Keep in mind this spans the Covid years, so a good number may have taken a semester or two off, artificially reducing their four-year grad rate.

College Navigator has just been updated within the last few weeks with the most recent IPEDS data in this category.[/quote]

So their graduation rate is above 50% lol as expected PP was full of $hit [/quote]

Four year graduation rate is 48 percent.  Last I checked, 48 is less than 50.[/quote]

Colleges always cite the 6 year rate. [/quote]

And?  That doesn't mean the 4 year rate is over 50 percent.

Here are the 4 year rates:

https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=gradrates.GRS04_Report[/quote]

4 year rate is meaningless.[/quote]

Then why does the Commonwealth of Virginia track it for all of its colleges?  Why does US News report it?  And why is it the goal of virtually every parent whose kid attends a decent college?[/quote]

It’s a benchmark to see how students are progressing. What matters is that students do indeed finish, the 6 year rate helps with that. [/quote]

Actually you have it backwards.

https://hechingerreport.org/how-the-college-lobby-got-the-government-to-measure-graduation-rates-over-six-years-instead-of-four/[/quote]

4 years is an arbitrary number. Graduation rates seek to measure what percentage of a cohort graduates. 6 years takes into account kids that need to take time off for health issues or family emergencies. [/quote]

Not true.  Cite?[/quote]

Financial constraints are a key driver in taking time off: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/retention/2024/08/13/academic-struggles-compel-many-students-leave-college[/quote]

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