Graduation Rates

IPEDS collects data for full-time, first-time degree and certificate-seeking undergraduate students. Data collected include information about number of students entering the institution as full-time, first-time degree or certificate-seeking students in a particular year (cohort), by race/ethnicity and gender; number of students completing their program within a time period equal to one and a half times (150%) the normal period of time, by race/ethnicity, gender, and Pell status; and number of students who transferred to other institutions.