<p>Those kinds of graduation rates are not at all uncommon for urban commuter schools. As others have said, lots of people work and attend college part-time. That’s compounded by the fact that they don’t have very good financial aid—they meet full need for only 5% of their students, and on average meet only 63% of need. So a lot of students need to work to pay their tuition bills. That puts them on “the six-year plan,” which can easily slip to 7 or 8.</p>
<p>For an urban commuter school, the University of Cincinnati is actually a pretty good one.</p>