Employment, Retention, and Graduation Rates
Employment Rates
Over 87 percent of Berkeley College graduates who graduated during the academic year ending June 30, 2011 secured employment in their chosen fields (as communicated by the graduates) prior to June 30, 2012 (excluding graduates who were not actively pursuing employment or did not provide information).
First-to-Second Year Retention Rates
New Jersey: Fifty percent of first-time, full-time students and 56 percent of first-time, part-time students seeking Bachelor’s degrees who began their studies at Berkeley College in Fall 2010 returned in Fall 2011.
New York: Fifty percent of first-time, full-time students and 25 percent of first-time, part-time students seeking Bachelor’s degrees who began their studies at Berkeley College in Fall 2010 returned in Fall 2011.
The many students who attended another postsecondary institution before enrolling at Berkeley College or who began their studies part-time are not included in those rates. If those students were included, then retention rates would be 53 percent for full-time and part-time New Jersey students and 52 percent for full-time and 36 percent for part-time New York students.
Graduation Rates
Federal law requires colleges that participate in certain financial aid programs to report the percentage of first-time degree or certificate seeking students who successfully completed those programs within one and a half times the “normal time” (for example, that would be six years for a Bachelor’s degree program or three years for an Associate’s degree program). Reported graduation rates for full-time, first-time freshmen who entered Berkeley College in Fall 2005 were 38 percent for New Jersey students and 33 percent for New York students.
If students who attended another postsecondary institution before enrolling at Berkeley College or who began their studies part-time were included, then graduation rates would be 40 percent for New Jersey students and 36 percent for New York students.
