National Retention & Completion Reports:

ACT:

• The Condition of College and Career Readiness 2016, via ACT
• 2010 ACT retention data summary, via ACT
• 2010 ACT what works in student retention, via ACT

​Complete College America:

• 2011 College completion data by state, via Complete College America

National Center for Education Statistics:

• College Navigator, via the National Center for Educational Statistics (individual college retention and graduation rates)
• Enrollment in postsecondary institutions, fall 2010; financial statistics, fiscal year 2010; and graduation rates, selected cohorts, 2002-07 - First look, via National Center for Educational Statistics (2012 report)
• 2008-2009 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study, via National Center for Educational Statistics
• Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 - Beginning postsecondary students: After three years, via National Center for Educational Statistics

Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA (HERI): 

• Completing college: Assessing graduation rates at four-year institutions (2011)

Lumina Foundation:

• A Stronger nation through higher education (2010), via Lumina (report of degree attainment by state)

The National Student Clearinghouse: 

• First-Year Persistence and Retention Rates by Starting Enrollment Intensity: 2009-2012 with rates aggregated by students' age  

US Dept. of Education:

• Answers in the tool box: Academic intensity, attendance patterns, and bachelor's degree attainment, (1999) via, Longitudinal study, by Clifford Adelman, Senior Research Analyst, U.S. Department of Education.

Student Success Reports:

• CCRC Predictors of Postsecondary Success
• Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University (2011), via Pell Institute report
• Promising and practical strategies to increase postsecondary success, via U.S Dept. of Education

Attrition Reports:

• Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America’s four-year colleges and universities, (2010), via American Institute for Research
• Retention-attrition in the nineties, via ERIC Clearinghouse

Student Engagement:

• National survey of student engagement (NSSE)
• Are college students satisfied: A National analysis of changing expectations (2000), via ERIC
• What student engagement data tells us about college readiness, 2007

Community Colleges:

• Simplifying complexity in the student experience (2014), via Community College Research Center
• Partnerships that promote success: Lessons and findings from the evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke foundation & community college transfer initiative (2014)
• What community college management practices are effective in promoting student success? A study of high- and low-impact institutions (2007), via Community College Research Center

Toolkits

• Academics and professional services in partnership summary report and self - assessment toolkit, via joint Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Leadership Foundation for Higher Education project - United Kingdom (2014)

Other reports:

• 2014 Great jobs great lives, via Gallup-Purdue Index Report
• Comparing college completion rates for students beginning in 2004, via The Chronicle of Higher Education 

Related topics:

See Retention 

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