UMass Boston

Reports and Metrics Overview

Our office provides retention and graduation rate data to support student success initiatives, institutional planning, and compliance reporting. These measures track students' progress from enrollment through degree completion and offer insight into persistence and graduation outcomes across different student cohorts at UMass Boston. More detailed retention and graduation reports, data, and metrics are available in the resources provided below. Retention and graduation rate data can also be found in the Statistical Portrait, Tables 15 and 16.

Reports

AY18-19 

• Measuring the Success of Community College Transfer Students (Published February 2019)
• Tracking Undergraduate Student Success for International Students at UMass Boston, Fall 2018 (Published January 2019)
• Declaring a Major and Student Success Measures for the Undecided Students (Published January 2019)
• Major Switching Analysis Fall 2011 Cohort (Published January 2019)
• Developing Key Performance Indicators for Graduate Student Degree Progress (Published November 2018)
• Attrition Attribute Analysis, Fall 2017 Cohort (Published October 2018)
• Orientation Date Analysis, Fall 2018 (Published October 2018)

AY17-18 

• Socioeconomic Factors and Student Retention (Published April 2018)
• Graduate Student Success Indicators at UMass Boston, Fall 2017 (Published January 2018)
• Tracking Graduate Student Success for International Students at UMass Boston, Fall 2017 (Published January 2018)
• Tracking Undergraduate Student Success for International Students at UMass Boston, Fall 2017 (Published January 2018)
• Factors and Techniques Affecting Enrollment (Published November 2017)
• International Student Enrollment (Published September 2017)

AY16-17 

• Navitas Graduate Student Success at UMass Boston, Spring 2017 (Published June 2017)
• Tracking Undergraduate Navitas Students at UMass Boston, Spring 2017 (Published May 2017)
• Transfer Student Retention and Graduation Rate 2017 (Published March 2017)
• Retention Graduation Summary 2017  (Published March 2017)
• Graduate Student Success Indicators at UMass Boston, Fall 2016 (Published January 2017)
• Student Success Measures for Ross Center for Disability Services at UMass Boston (Published August 2016)

AY15-16 

• Effect of Registering Late on Student Retention (Published May 2016)
• First-Time Freshman Student Success across Colleges (Published May 2016)
• Student Success Measures across Admit Types at UMass Boston, Fall 2009 Cohort (Published April 2016)
• Factors that Influence NCLEX Pass Rates (Published March 2016)
• The Impact of High School Grade Point Average on Student Outcomes (Published February 2016)
• Effects of Withdrawing in the First Semester on Graduation Rates (Published September 2015)

AY14-15 

• Persistence of Students with Low First Year GPAs (Published June 2015)
• The Six-Year Graduation Rate of the Fall 2008 Cohort of First-Time Full-Time Freshmen (Published December 2014)
• The Second Year Retention of Fall 2013 First-Time Full-Time Freshmen (Published December 2013)
• Retention/Graduation Rates of Fall 2013 Entering Transfer Students (Published Oc (Published October 2014)
• The Second Year Retention of Fall 2013 First-Time Full-Time Freshmen (Published (Published October 2014)

Metrics 

• Detailed Retention and Grad rates for FTFT Freshmen by Ethnicity Gender STEM Discipline (Published June 2019)
• Detailed Retention & Grad Rates for Community College Transfer Students, 2008-2017 Cohorts  (Published June 2019)
• Detailed Retention and Grad rates for FTFT Freshmen by Ethnicity Gender STEM Discipline, 2008-2017 Cohort  (Published February 2019) 
• Transfer Student Retention and Graduation Rate 2017 (Published March 2017)
• Retention Graduation Summary 2017  (Published March 2017)