Persistence and Retention - Fall 2021 Beginning Postsecondary Student Cohort National Highlights

Persistence and Retention Fall 2021 Beginning Postsecondary Student Cohort July 2023 The Persistence and Retention report series examines Nearly 76 percent of the 2.4 million first-year persistence and retention rates for beginning postsecondary students. [...] Students attaining a credential in their first year are accounted for in persistence and retention rates. [...] trends and patterns in this important early success indicator, and identify disparities by institutional type, Persistence rate gains are notable state, credential level sought, starting enrollment intensity, major field, and student demographic among full-time students, Native characteristics such as age, gender, and race and American students, and computer ethnicity. [...] Both persistence and retention rates declined for part-time students at public and private for-profit four-year institutions, as well as at PABs. [...] Public four-year institutions have the smallest gender disparity in both persistence and retention (1.7 pp and 1.4 pp, respectively), while private for-profit four-year institutions have the largest (10.2-pp gap for persistence and 9.6-pp for retention).