Average Retention Rate At New York Colleges

The retention rate is the percentage of first-time students who attend and continue their study in next year at colleges. The low retention rate means that more students transfer out to or stop/pause the program at a school. In general, high ranked colleges or special purpose colleges' retention rate is higher than others.

The average retention rate of New York colleges is 75.05% for full-time students and 57.43% for part-time students. 117,249 out of 156,137 full-time first-year students continued their study in next year at New York colleges. In public New York colleges, the retention rate is 68% and private schools' rate is 80% By school levels, the retention rate at four-years colleges is 79% and community colleges' rate is 62% in New York.

The next schools are the top 5 New York colleges that have the highest retention rate. Columbia University in the City of New York has the highest retention rate of 99% among New York colleges. Cornell University and New York University also have higher rate of 97% and 94% respectively. For the ranking, we exclude community colleges and four-colleges with less than 1,000 first-time students.

The following table summarizes the retention rate and number of students by attending status for New York collegesNumbers in parentheses in each column indicate the number of students in the corresponding category.