65. Graduation Rates in Ohio

As the cost of college increases, more attention is being paid to the percentage of students who graduate from particular schools. A report entitled "Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don’t)," dated June 2009, was written by Frederick M. Hess, Mark Schneider, Kevin Carey, and Andrew P. Kelly as A Project of the American Enterprise Institute.

Using 6-year percentages reported by the colleges and universities to the U. S. Department of Education for the student cohort enrolling in 2001, the authors compared graduation rates by various levels of schools' selectivity, according to groupings in Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges. The 6-year graduation rates for colleges and universities in Ohio from this report (pp. 59-61) have been copied and pasted below:

College/Univ Grad % Tuition Enr Carnegie Class Type
Antioch College 34 28,573 225 Baccalaureate Private
Ashland University 59 23,006 4,988 Master’s Private
Baldwin-Wallace College 67 22,404 3,796 Master’s Private
Bluffton University 56 21,780 1,046 Baccalaureate Private
Bowling Green State University, Main Campus 57 9,060 17,043 Research Public
Capital University 57 26,360 3,252 Master’s Private
Case Western Reserve University 81 33,538 8,454 Research Private
Cedarville University 69 19,680 2,947 Baccalaureate Private
Central State University 21 5,294 1,900 Baccalaureate Public
Cleveland State University 31 7,945 11,303 Research Public
College of Mount St. Joseph 51 21,200 1,819 Master’s Private
College of Wooster 73 31,870 1,771 Baccalaureate Private
David N. Myers University 23 10,950 379 Baccalaureate Private
Defiance College 51 20,630 827 Baccalaureate Private
Denison University 79 33,010 2,223 Baccalaureate Private
DeVry University, Ohio 32 13,220 2,587 Master’s Private
Franciscan University of Steubenville 69 18,180 2,224 Master’s Private
Heidelberg College 59 18,618 1,360 Master’s Private
Hiram College 61 24,885 1,130 Baccalaureate Private
John Carroll University 74 26,434 3,397 Master’s Private
Kent State University, Kent Campus 49 8,430 20,025 Research Public
Kenyon College 84 38,140 1,657 Baccalaureate Private
Lake Erie College 50 23,886 809 Baccalaureate Private
Lourdes College 53 11,232 1,490 Baccalaureate Private
Malone College 56 18,870 2,030 Master’s Private
Marietta College 56 24,842 1,534 Baccalaureate Private
Miami University, Oxford 80 10,554 15,531 Research Public
Mount Union College 65 22,050 2,092 Baccalaureate Private
Mount Vernon Nazarene University 51 18,064 2,377 Baccalaureate Private
Muskingum College 61 17,970 1,822 Master’s Private
Notre Dame College 51 21,090 1,118 Baccalaureate Private
Oberlin College 82 36,282 2,747 Baccalaureate Private
Ohio Dominican University 44 21,700 2,489 Master’s Private
Ohio Northern University 69 29,685 3,526 Baccalaureate Private
Ohio State University, Lima Campus 36 5,664 1,196 Associates Public
Ohio State University, Main Campus 71 8,676 48,583 Research Public
Ohio State University, Newark Campus 36 5,664 2,270 Associates Public
Ohio University, Main Campus 71 8,907 19,805 Research Public
Ohio Wesleyan University 68 31,930 1,975 Baccalaureate Private
Otterbein College 63 25,065 2,648 Master’s Private
Shawnee State University 29 5,832 3,292 Baccalaureate Public
Tiffin University 34 16,800 2,001 Master’s Private
University of Akron, Main Campus 36 8,382 19,179 Research Public
University of Cincinnati, Main Campus 43 9,399 24,986 Research Public
University of Dayton 76 25,950 9,219 Research Private
University of Findlay 57 23,890 4,077 Master’s Private
University of Rio Grande 41 16,400 1,886 Master’s Private
University of Toledo, Main Campus 44 7,982 17,098 Research Public
Urbana University 35 17,704 1,132 Baccalaureate Private
Ursuline College 49 22,910 1,117 Master’s Private
Walsh University 55 18,960 2,072 Master’s Private
Wilberforce University 32 11,560 825 Baccalaureate Private
Wilmington College 54 22,078 1,446 Baccalaureate Private
Wittenberg University 61 31,400 1,996 Baccalaureate Private
Wright State University, Main Campus 43 7,018 14,100 Research Public
Xavier University 80 25,270 5,201 Master’s Private
Youngstown State University 36 6,721 11,486 Master’s Public

State Average 54.5%

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