The new report delivers good news to the higher ed sector, and especially for community colleges, which have been battered by pandemic-related costs and enrollment challenges since the health crisis began. It comes two weeks after a separate Clearinghouse report found transfer enrollment appears to have steadied in fall 2021 after plummeting the year before. It also marks the third straight year that six-year completion rates have exceeded 60%.
“Students who started college six years ago have been completing degrees and certificates at higher rates in recent years,” Doug Shapiro, executive director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, said in a statement.
