Average Graduation Rate At New York Colleges

The graduation rate is a percentage of graduate candidates who complete their degree in expected completion timeIn general, the graduation rate is computed based on the completion in the 150% of normal time. For example, for the 4-years bachelor's degree programs, the number of completers who completed in 6 years is used to compute the graduation rate.

The average graduation rate of New York colleges is 60.41%. It includes all institutions' rate (i.e. 4-years and 2-years or less) where the graduation data is available. In public colleges, the graduation rate is 52.47% and private schools' rate is 62.25%.

By gender, the female students' graduation rate is 72.82% and male students' rate is 65.49%.

The schools in below list are the top 5 New York colleges that have the highest graduation rate. Columbia University in the City of New York has the highest graduation rate of 97% among New York colleges. Cornell University and New York University also have higher graduation rate of 94% and 87% respectively. For the ranking, we exclude colleges with less than 5,000 students. You can view more schools at New York colleges with high graduation rate.

For the four-years New York institutions where BS degree grants, the average graduation rate is 69.39%. 73,886 students graduated out of 106,476 candidates. 1,369 students are still enrolled in the schools and 17,680 students are no longer enrolled or transferred out to other institutions.

By completion time, 59,122 students have completed their degree in 4 years or less as the rate is 55.53% at New York colleges. 12,079 students completed in 5 years and 16,311 students earned their BS degree in 6 years.

The following table summarizes the graduation rate and number of completers by gender and completion time for New York collegesNumbers in parentheses in each column indicate the number of completers over candidates in the corresponding category.