The number of graduates from the state’s community colleges has seen a marked increase, according to data released Wednesday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Overall, the number of Colorado college students earning credentials within six years is holding steady.
The report tracks cohorts of students over six years. Colorado’s college completion rate for the cohort of students who started college in the fall of 2018 stayed about the same at 59.1 percent graduating in 2024, a slight bump from the 2017 cohort where 58.9 percent completed.
Nationally, completion rates inched up to 61.1 percent for students who entered college in 2018, a .5 percentage-point increase compared to the previous cohort. This is after several years of stalled progress in national college completion rates. It’s the highest rate since 2007 when the organization began tracking data. The eight-year completion rate for students starting in fall 2016 reached 64.7 percent, also the highest of the cohorts tracked.
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