Average Retention Rate At Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island colleges is 81.24% for full-time students and 55.82% for part-time students. 10,840 out of 13,650 full-time first-year students continued their study in next year at Rhode Island colleges. In public Rhode Island colleges, the retention rate is 71% and private schools' rate is 84% By school levels, the retention rate at four-years colleges is 83% and community colleges' rate is 67% in Rhode Island.

The next schools are the top 4 Rhode Island colleges that have the highest retention rate. Brown University has the highest retention rate of 98% among Rhode Island colleges. University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College also have higher rate of 85% and 74% 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 Rhode Island collegesNumbers in parentheses in each column indicate the number of students in the corresponding category.