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- Not everyone who starts college finishes on time.
- We ranked the top schools on U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best National Universities and Best National Liberal Arts Colleges lists by the share of students who did not complete their degrees within six years of starting college.
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Not everyone who starts college finishes on time.
We took the top 50 schools on U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best National Universities and Best National Liberal Arts Colleges lists and found the share of first-time, full-time, degree-seeking undergraduate students who completed a four-year degree within six years for each school using data from the US Department of Education.
The group of students used in this analysis started college during the 2011-2012 school year, six years before the 2017-2018 year, the most recent year for which data was available.
We ranked the top-rated schools by the share of that group that did not complete a degree at the school within six years. That share includes students who withdrew, transferred to other schools, or did not finish within six years for some other reason.
Here are the 20 highly rated colleges and universities with the lowest six-year graduation rates:
20. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 15.0% of students did not graduate within six years.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
U.S. News & World Report rank: Tied for 46th among national universities
Location: Champaign, Illinois
18. University of California – Irvine: 15.1% of students did not graduate within six years.
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U.S. News & World Report rank: Tied for 33rd among national universities
Location: Irvine, California
18. Pepperdine University: 15.1% of students did not graduate within six years.
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U.S. News & World Report rank: Tied for 46th among national universities
Location: Malibu, California
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Source: Business Insider – akiersz@businessinsider.com (Andy Kiersz)