Retention and Graduation Rates and Types of Graduate and Professional Education

First-to-Second-Year Retention Rates

The retention rate measures the rate at which students persist in their educational programs at an institution. For Berkeley College, this is the percentage of first-time Bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduates from the previous Fall who are again enrolled in the current Fall.

The retention rate, as reported to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (“IPEDS”), for first-time, full-time (“FTFT”) freshman Bachelor’s degree-seeking students who enrolled in Fall 2022 and continued their enrollment in Fall 2023 was 69 percent for New Jersey students and 50 percent for New York students. The retention rate for first-time, part-time freshman Bachelor’s degree-seeking students who enrolled in Fall 2022 and continued their enrollment in Fall 2023 was 50 percent for New Jersey students and 40 percent for New York students.

Among FTFT freshman Associate’s degree-seeking students enrolled in Fall 2022, 43 percent of the New Jersey students and 39 percent of the New York students continued their enrollment in Fall 2023. Among FTFT freshman certificate-seeking students enrolled in Fall 2022, 44 percent of New Jersey students either graduated or continued their enrollment in Fall 2023.

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). These rates do not include part-time students or students who previously attended another post-secondary institution.

Overall
The overall graduation rate, as reported to IPEDS, for FTFT degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in Fall 2017 and successfully completed their programs within 150 percent of “normal time” was 45 percent for New Jersey students and 40 percent for New York students.

Bachelor’s Degree Programs
The graduation rate, as reported to IPEDS, for FTFT freshman bachelor’s degree-seeking students who entered in Fall 2017 and successfully completed their programs by August 31, 2023, was 42 percent for New Jersey students and 42 percent for New York students.

Additional information is available on the College Navigator:
New York: http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=berkeley+college&s=all&id=189228
New Jersey: http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=berkeley+college&s=all&id=183789

Associate’s Degree and Certificate Programs
The graduation rate for FTFT associate’s freshman degree-seeking students who entered in Fall 2020 and successfully completed their programs by August 31, 2023, was 31 percent for New York students.

Among FTFT freshman associate’s degree-seeking students who entered in Fall 2020, 39 percent of New Jersey students successfully completed their programs by August 31, 2023. Among FTFT freshman certificate-seeking students who entered in Fall 2020, 44 percent of New Jersey students successfully completed their programs at Berkeley College and graduated by August 31, 2023.

For information about graduation rates broken down by gender, ethnicity, and Pell Grant recipients, go to https://berkeleycollege.edu/pdf/disagg-rates.pdf. 

Types of Graduate and Professional Education

Federal law also requires colleges to make available information regarding the types of graduate and professional education in which graduates of the institution’s four-year degree programs enroll.

In communications between graduates and Career Services staff, students graduating from Berkeley College with Bachelor's degrees between September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023, have reported pursuing the following: (i) Master’s, Public Health, (ii) Master’s, Social Work, (iii) Master’s, Criminal Justice, (iv) Master’s, Accounting and Financial Management, (v) Master’s, Cyber Security, (vi) Master’s, Business Administration, (vii) Master’s, Nursing, (viii) MBA, Database Management.