| |
Completed (highest level)
|
|
No degree or certificate
|
Type of first institution
and year first enrolled |
Bachelor’s
degree |
Associate’s
degree |
Vocational
certificate |
|
Still enrolled
at 4-year
institution |
Still enrolled
at 2-year
institution or less |
Not
enrolled |
|
| Total |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1989–90 |
25.8 |
11.2 |
13.0 |
|
8.1 |
5.2 |
36.8 |
| 1995–96 |
25.1 |
9.9 |
11.7 |
|
11.6 |
6.6 |
35.2 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| All 4-year |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1989–90 |
53.3 |
4.2 |
2.9 |
|
13.3 |
1.9 |
24.4 |
| 1995–96 |
53.4 |
3.7 |
2.3 |
|
17.2 |
3.2 |
20.4 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Public 4-year |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1989–90 |
46.9 |
4.7 |
3.2 |
|
16.1 |
2.3 |
26.8 |
| 1995–96 |
46.6 |
4.1 |
2.6 |
|
20.9 |
3.7 |
22.1 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Private not-for-profit 4-year |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1989–90 |
66.6 |
3.0 |
2.3 |
|
7.4 |
1.2 |
19.6 |
| 1995–96 |
65.3 |
2.9 |
1.6 |
|
10.7 |
2.2 |
17.3 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Public 2-year |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1989–90 |
6.3 |
17.5 |
12.9 |
|
5.1 |
9.6 |
48.6 |
| 1995–96 |
6.9 |
15.9 |
9.3 |
|
9.7 |
10.5 |
47.8 |
|
NOTE: Total includes private not-for-profit 2-year and less-than-2-year institutions and public less-than-2-year institutions. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
|
SOURCE: Horn, L., and Berger, R. 2004. College Persistence on the Rise? Changes in 5-Year Degree Completion and Postsecondary Persistence Between 1994 and 2000 (NCES 2004–156), table 5-A. Data from U.S. Department of Education, NCES, 1989/90 and 1995/96 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Studies (BPS:90/94 and BPS:96/01).
|
