The share of students who were still enrolled at any college in their second fall term has slipped slightly in the past few years, according to a report released recently by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
The report examines all first-time students who started college in the fall of 2012 and tracks where they were a year later. While the retention rate (students returning to the same institution) stayed about the same as in recent years, the persistence rate (students remaining enrolled anywhere) declined by 1.2 percentage points from 2010.
A greater share of the students who left, then, didn’t re-enroll anywhere else. In the 2012 cohort, about one in nine freshmen had transferred by their sophomore year. All figures varied considerably by sector.
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