<p>jerzgrlmom, 6,000 from Towson? That sounds nice from an oos public that is a little less than some of the other larger ones.</p>
<p>Thank you all for your help!</p>
<p>In my college research it seems that generally grad rates are directly tied to the number of students at the school. All of the schools we've looked at with populations over 5,000 (with the exception of James Madison) have grad rates below 50% (Towson, George mason, & Suny New Paltz were all below 30%). All schools below 3,000 have had rates above 60% (Manhattan College was tops with 82%). I also understand that a certain percentage of this can be attributed to larger schools generally being in more populated areas which lends itself to more part timers.</p>
<p>I have not found that to be true.
Off hand:</p>
<p>University of Connecticut has a 4 year grad rate of45.5%-not stellar but much better
Suny Bing- 69.9%
University of Vermont has a 4 year grad rate of 53%
Suny Albany-53.5%- 4 years
Syracuse U- more outstanding at 69.2%- 4 years</p>
<p>These are just some arbitrary schools where I had the #s at my fingertips.</p>
<p>I do see the correlation between smaller schools and higher grad rates. I think you are absolutely right about that.</p>
<p>my school's 4 year rate is like 49 percent and the 6 year is like 68, or something like that.. and the freshman retention rate i believe is 83 or something similar. and for undergrad students i think we have about 4300.</p>
<p>I think that the over vs. under 5000 rule various with the admission's quality of the school. I would imagine that schools like Harvard, Berkeley, and Virginia have very high graduation rates. However, I am not going to research these stats for proof.</p>
<p>Yes grad rates are very sensitive to admissions selectivity at the most selective schools. I was referring to moderately selective schools. Of the large schools we have looked at (George Mason, Towson, SUNY New Paltz,JMU) the smaller schools with comparable "selectivity ratings" (taken from Princeton Review) have a significantly higher grad rate with the exception of JMU.</p>