Data on Retention of Most Recent CSU Student Cohort Examined

A recent post here at Turner Business discusses the drop in enrollment that the Turner College is currently experiencing. Given the interest in that post, we collected the most recent longitudinal retention data for CSU from the USG. Four years ago, a cohort of 1,096 new students entered CSU. As the table below points out, only 711 of these students returned to CSU for a second year. By the beginning of the third year, only 540 of these students were still attending CSU. Heading into what would have been the senior year for these original 1,096 students, only 479 remained. 

The next table (below) provides a deeper dive into the data concerning these 1,096 students by examining retention by race/ethnicity. 

With the recent drop in overall enrollment, CSU officials will likely need to consider efforts to boost retention of students who choose to enroll.