Educational Policy Institute

Approximately 59.6 percent of students who begin their studies at a four-year institutions and are BA-degree seekers, graduate within six years of entering their program. Women have a slightly higher graduation rate than men (62.3 vs. 56.5 percent), and, besides students with Asian backgrounds, White students still graduate at much higher rates than minority students.

Table 1. Graduation rates within 150 percent of normal program completion time at Title IV institutions among students who started as full-time, first-time students, by race/ethnicity, level and control of institution, and gender (cohort year 2008)
Percent graduating
Level and control of institution and gender	Overall	American Indian or Alaska Native	Asian	Black or African American	Hispanic or Latino	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White
All 4-year institutions (cohort year 2008) All Students	54.4	36.2	69.4	36.2	49.4	41.4	59.5
Degree Seekers
All Students	59.6	41.0	71.2	40.9	53.5	50.0	63.2
Men	56.5	38.6	68.0	35.3	48.9	49.9	60.1
Women	62.3	42.8	74.1	44.8	57.0	50.1	65.9
SOURCE: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2015/2015181.pdf