{"id":20537,"date":"2024-02-01T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/?p=20537"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:15:08","slug":"expanding-the-timeframe-for-success-introducing-the-8-year-graduation-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/2024\/02\/01\/expanding-the-timeframe-for-success-introducing-the-8-year-graduation-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding the Timeframe for Success: Introducing the 8-Year Graduation Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We continue our blog series on graduation outcomes by introducing what will be a new metric framework for some readers: the\u00a0IPEDS Outcome Measures<\/a>. When most people in higher education talk about graduation rates, they are typically referring to the percentage of students who start at a college or university as first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students (i.e., traditional first-time entering students (FTICs)) and complete a bachelor’s degree at that first institution.\u00a0While including this main group of students,\u00a0<\/span>the Outcome Measures (OM) also track outcomes for full-time, non-first-time entering (or transfer) students, as well as those who start as part-time students for both FTIC and transfer cohorts. Building on the traditional\u00a0<\/span>4- and 6-year\u00a0<\/span>graduation rates, the OM data also extends graduation rate calculations to 8-years post-matriculation for student cohorts. Throughout the course of the next few blog posts, we will delve into the data for these respective cohorts, beginning with the traditionally defined group of full-time FTIC students using the most-recent OM data for the 2014 cohort.<\/span><\/p>

Statewide Averages for Public Universities in Texas<\/u><\/b><\/p>