No matter what process you select to aid your discernment, the following might be helpful to consider: When it comes to college admissions, rankings abound and data on attrition, graduation rates, graduate school acceptance and student satisfaction are available in a single click.
Every PI should also disclose data on the average time to graduation from her or his lab, the lab's financial picture, and personal or political dynamics that could negatively affect the student's progress.
Injuries during training were obtained from electronic medical records and the training units provided data on student graduation and attrition.
Mr. Obama's first choice is that this data – on tuition, graduation and retention rates, student makeup and graduates' earnings – help determine how much federal money the colleges receive.
Yet for years, the data on Pell recipient graduation rates was mostly hidden from the public eye.
Duncan's staff compiled data on students' graduation and loan repayment rates by accreditor, and the standards they use to grade schools, and publicly released the findings on a new website.
Reliable data on historic graduation and dropout rates is hard to come by because the formulas for tabulating them have evolved and improved over time.
Although Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg tries to interpret the recent data on high school graduation rates as progress, the figures suggest some disappointing conclusions.
National data on high school graduation, college enrollment, choice of major, college graduation, graduate school enrollment, and doctoral degrees were used to quantify the degree of underrepresentation at each level of education and the rate of transition to the next stage.
The report compiles data on high school graduation, by school district, state, race and sex.
