Display 0703: Six-Year Graduation Rate, First-Time, Full-Time Freshmen

Learning Support Students, not yet college-ready at the time of admission, are allowed to matriculate at SSU but are required to successfully complete a series of basic skills courses before engaging the college-level curricula. (In many other locales, these students are routed first to a Junior or Community College to hone their academic skills before being admitted to a University. SSU has a track record of raising the academic levels of many of these students and seeing them through to graduation.) Understandably, Learning Support Students require longer to graduate than others and often do not do so within the six-year window tracked by national conventions. For a variety of important reasons, SSU has typically had a larger ratio of Learning Support Students to Non-Learning Support Students than many other institutions.

	6-Year Graduation Rates for Traditional, First-Time, Full-Time Freshmen

	Fall 1991	Fall 1992	Fall 1993	Fall 1994	Fall 1995	Fall 1996	Fall 1997	Fall 1998	Fall 1999	Fall 2000	Fall 2001	3 Year Avg.
Learning Support	22%	17%	14%	13%	11%	14%	13%	26%	20%	23%	25%	23%
Cohort #	405	348	437	376	392	297	256	195	133	125	92	117
Non-Learning Support	37%	34%	31%	29%	31%	28%	26%	28%	35%	43%	51%	43%
Cohort #	216	181	204	195	188	112	128	156	148	155	233	179