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Selectivity vs. outcomes

Each bubble is a 4-year college: how selective it is (admit rate, more selective to the right) against how many students finish (6-year graduation rate). Bubble size is undergraduate enrollment.

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College Sector Admit rate 6-yr grad rate Enrollment HBCU Tier

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.