21% 4-year graduation rate...is this a bad sign?

<p>It is a decent school.</p>

<p>It’s worth thinking about your goals for college. If you are mostly looking for the education and credential, then what other students are doing doesn’t matter much. But if the social and community aspects of college are important to you, the fact that there’s a lot of turnover among your classmates is a significant down side. It’s hard to build a tight group of friends if a lot of them don’t return from one semester to the next, and even harder to build continuity in an organization like a newspaper, fraternity, or sports team.</p>

<p>There’s no right answer as to whether the second set of concerns ought to be a problem for you or not. If those things don’t matter to you, then don’t worry about them.</p>