A college’s graduation rate is a good indicator of a college’s success as it relates to their students achieving their educational goals. A college with a lower graduation rate may be less successful at helping its students achieve their education goals than a college with a higher graduation rate.
The graduation rates listed below are provided by the College Navigator database (http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/) from the Institute of Education Sciences, an agency within the US Department of Education. College Navigator defines graduation rate, for given year, as the percentage of full-time, first-time undergraduate students beginning a program in who graduated within 150% of the normal time required to complete a program. That means, if a program were 2 years long, a student who graduates within 3 years would be included in the graduation rate.
*Ranking by Graduation Rate, 2011
| Rank | College | Graduation Rate | ||||||||
| 1 | Champlain College | 86% | ||||||||
| 2 | Everglades University | 65% | ||||||||
| 3 | Nova Southeastern University | 60% | ||||||||
| 4 | Keiser University | 55% | ||||||||
| 5 | Rasmussen College | 51% | ||||||||
| 6 | Liberty University Online | 50% | ||||||||
| 7 | North Central University | 48% | ||||||||
| 8 | Grand Canyon University | 47% | ||||||||
| 9 | Westwood College | 47% | ||||||||
| 10 | Ashford University | 42% | ||||||||
| 11 | Kaplan University | 39% | ||||||||
| 12 | Western Governors University | 36% | ||||||||
| 13 | Post University | 36% | ||||||||
| 14 | Upper Iowa University | 36% | ||||||||
| 15 | Salem International University | 35% | ||||||||
| 16 | Everest University | 34% | ||||||||
| 17 | DeVry University | 34% | ||||||||
| 18 | Jones International University | 30% | ||||||||
| 19 | Western International University | 25% | ||||||||
| 20 | South University | 24% | ||||||||
| 21 | Bellevue University | 18% | ||||||||
| 22 | University of Phoenix | 15% | ||||||||
| 23 | Walden University | no data | ||||||||
| 24 | Capella University | no data | ||||||||
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For more information regarding these rankings, we invite you to consult the in-depth documentation on our ranking methodology. Disclaimer: Many online colleges are not included in above rankings due to lack of publicly available data. |
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