The other seven universities average a total of about 64 percent of students not graduating in four years.Īmanda Yale, Associate Provost for Enrollment Services, said that there are several reasons why a student may not graduate in four years. An outlier in the PASSHE system is Cheyney University, as 95 percent of students beginning in 2010 didn’t graduate in four years. West Chester University comes in second in comparison to SRU as about 45 percent of their students who began in 2010 graduated in four years. PASSHE universities on the east side of Pennsylvania include Bloomsburg University, Cheyney University, East Stroudsburg University, Kutztown University, Lock Haven University, Mansfield University, Millersville University, Shippensburg University and West Chester. Of students who began at each of those universities in 2010, about 64 percent didn’t graduate in four years from Clarion, about 64 percent didn’t graduate from Indiana in four years, about 63 percent didn’t graduate from California in four years and about 72 percent didn’t graduate in four years from Edinboro. PASSHE universities on the west side of Pennsylvania and in close proximity to SRU include California University, Edinboro University, Clarion University and Indiana University. Birckbichler added that the numbers do not reflect transfer data. Overall, Slippery Rock University ranks first as about half of the 1,568 students who began their undergraduate degree at Slippery Rock University in 2010 were able to graduate in four years.Ĭarrie Birckbichler, Associate Provost for Academic Financial Management and Institutional Research, said that SRU’s statistics for graduation rates are very high in comparison to other PASSHE universities.

Thirty-seven percent of students who began their undergraduate degree at one of the 14 universities in the Pennsylvania System of Higher Education (PASSHE) system in 2010 graduated in four years, according to PASSHE System Research Office.

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