Student Outcome Measures

This graph shows retention rates for new full-time degree-seeking students through the years 2020-2024:

This graph shows retention rates for new full-time, bachelor degree-seeking students through the years 2020-2024:

Excluded from data are students who left Columbia College due to death, became totally and permanently disabled, to serve in the armed forces, to serve with a foreign aid service of the Federal Government, or to serve on official church missions.

This graph shows graduation rates for undergraduate degree-seeking students as well as bachelor degree-seeking students through the years 2020-2024:

Rates of students graduating within 150% of standard time e.g., 6 years for a bachelors degree. Reported to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.

This graph shows the quantity of certificates, associates, bachelors, and masters programs completed by students each academic year. Individual students may have received more than one award in that academic year.  This info is represented through the years 2020-2024:

This graph shows Columbia College student career outcome rate trends through academic years 2020-2024:

Source: Student Exit Survey.

Career Outcomes Rate: This is the number of graduates who have landed in any of the employment categories plus service and military plus continuing education divided by the number of students for whom an outcome is known minus those graduates identified as not seeking an outcome.

(updated 10/30/2026)