Retention & graduation of UConn students:*

• 73 percent of students graduate from UConn in four years.
The U.S. average for four-year public colleges is 46 percent.

• 84 percent of students graduate from UConn in six years.
The U.S. average for four-year public colleges is 64 percent.

*According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (latest data 2023), the National Center for Education Statistics and the UConn Retention & Enrollment Task Force 2024 report.

Retention & graduation of journalism majors:

We are able to track retention and progress toward graduation from the time our students are formally accepted as journalism majors, which is usually in their third or fourth semester.

Of the 22 students who entered the major in 2020-21 (COVID year):

• 22 (100 percent) graduated from UConn.
• 22 (100 percent) graduated as journalism majors.
• Of the 22 journalism majors, 11 (50 percent) completed second majors. Those majors include Communication, Political Science, English, History, Philosophy and Sociology.
• The average time to graduation was 4.59 semesters, which is what we would anticipate given that most students are in their third or fourth semester when they formally are entered into the major.

Updated June 2025