College Results Online

Recent Education Trust Reports on College Graduation Rates

College Results Online Brief: Top Gap Closers

Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation-rate gaps.
http://www.edtrust.org/sites/edtrust.org/files
/publications/CRO Brief (Top Gap Closers).pdf

College Results Online Brief: Top Gainers

Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates.
http://www.edtrust.org/sites/edtrust.org/files
/publications/CRO Brief (Top Gainers).pdf

One Step from the Finish Line: Higher College Graduation Rates are Within Our Reach

This report challenges the conventional wisdom about college graduation rates by highlighting the strategies of some successful colleges and universities.
http://www.edtrust.org/sites/edtrust.org/files
/publications/files/one_step_from.pdf

Choosing To Improve: Voices from Colleges and Universities with Better Graduation Rates

Offers a detailed examination of the practices of these colleges and outlines a growing body of research that tells us that what colleges do matters a great deal -- from their efforts to keep new students engaged to their use of data to uncover obstacles to completion.
http://www.edtrust.org/sites/edtrust.org/files
/publications/files/Choosing_to_improve.pdf

A Matter of Degrees: Improving Graduation Rates in Four-Year Colleges and Universities

An analysis reveals deep problems in the graduation rates at four-year colleges and universities but finds that some institutions do a much better job graduating some students than others.
http://www.edtrust.org/sites/edtrust.org/files
/publications/files/highered.pdf