According
to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 68.7% of students who
first enrolled in postsecondary education in Fall 2012 returned to the same or
a different institution the following year, compared with a 69.9% persistence
rate for students who first enrolled in Fall 2009.
Persistence
rates declined by 2.8 percentage points in four-year private institutions and
2.3 percentage points in both two-year and four-year public institutions. The
rate increased by 0.7 percentage points in four-year for-profit institutions.