Every bar in the chart below is a slice of all the students who started at 4-year colleges nationally, ordered by that college's completion rate. Bar width shows how many students are in each slice, so you can see how many seats sit at low- vs. high-completion colleges.
| Completion rate | Students who started | Students who graduated | Share who graduated |
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Data: IPEDS graduation-rate figures for students who started college in 2021-2023, U.S. Department of Education, with those three years' worth of students pooled together. Figures for a racial or ethnic group are hidden where fewer than 30 students in that group are in the data. Selectivity tiers are calculated by this site from admission rate and test-score midpoints.