{"664600":{"#nid":"664600","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Reaches All-Time High Retention and Graduation Rates","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESince the 2011 inception of Complete College Georgia (CCG) \u0026mdash; a University System of Georgia (USG) initiative to increase the number of students who complete their degrees \u0026mdash; the numbers have continued to rise.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents in the Fall 2016 first-year cohort recorded a six-year graduation rate of 93%, an all-time high for the Institute. (In U.S. public colleges, the average \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.com\/universities-colleges\/college-dropout-rates#:~:text=Four%2Dyear%20institutions%20with%20open,likely%20to%20finish%20their%20degrees.\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eretention rate is about 71%\u003C\/a\u003E.) Underrepresented minorities and women within this cohort also posted record-high graduation rates of 87% and 94%, respectively. Additionally, 98% of students in the Fall 2021 first-year cohort enrolled for a second year. This represents an all-time high for the Institute.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oue.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-all-time-high-retention-grad-rates\u0022\u003ERead more in the Georgia Tech Office of Undergraduate Education newsroom.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech undergraduates are earning their degrees at record rates. During the 2021-22 academic year, the Institute awarded 4,016 undergraduate degrees.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech undergraduates are earning their degrees at record rates. During the 2021-22 academic year, the Institute awarded 4,016 undergraduate degrees.\u00a0\u00a0"}],"uid":"34528","created_gmt":"2023-01-10 17:24:45","changed_gmt":"2023-03-02 19:34:56","author":"jhunt7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"664599":{"id":"664599","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech undergraduates are earning their degrees at record rates. ","body":null,"created":"1673371471","gmt_created":"2023-01-10 17:24:31","changed":"1673371471","gmt_changed":"2023-01-10 17:24:31","alt":"","file":{"fid":"251455","name":"721951e7884f5c11e0c617e5_203xauto.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/721951e7884f5c11e0c617e5_203xauto.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/721951e7884f5c11e0c617e5_203xauto.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":295536,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/721951e7884f5c11e0c617e5_203xauto.jpg?itok=fYSWu7lJ"}}},"media_ids":["664599"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"192259","name":"cos-students"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}