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For Release The Citadel leads S.C. public colleges
in four-year graduation rates
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Cadets who attend The Citadel are focused and on-track. The Citadel has the top four-year and five-year graduation rates of any public college or university in South Carolina according to the S.C. Commission on Higher Education. In fact, The Citadels four-year graduation
rate of 59.6 percent is twice the states average of 28.7 percent.
Those percentages are from the Statistical Abstract
2000 --the most recent data available. Of the 517 cadets who entered
in the fall of 1993, 308 graduated within four years, 355 (68.7%)
graduated within five years and 364 (70.4%) graduated within six years.
The next closest college was Clemson University, which
graduated 39% of its initial freshman class of 2,300 in four years.
The following chart shows The Citadels graduation
rate compared to that of other South Carolina public colleges and
universities.
Source: Higher Education Statistical Abstract 2000 for South Carolina, South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, page 61. -end-
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