Men havenât a clue about why they prefer certain body shapes or why their brains light up when they see narrow waists and well-rounded hips and thighs. But the preferences encoded in their genes by millennia of evolution help reveal what it is about womenâs bodies that foretells success in having children.
All states and the District of Columbia have reported ACGR rates. Based on those state-reported data, the U.S. Department of Education indicates that the nationâs graduation rate reached an all-time high, 82 percent for the class of 2014. Thatâs an increase of 1 percentage point over the prior year.
Most colleges report four-, five-, and six-year graduation rates. For colleges in our database, the average five-year graduation rate is 52% and the average six-year graduation rate is 55%. We provide a college's four-, five-, and six-year graduation rates on the Students page of its College Profile.