LINCOLN -- All three major undergraduate campuses of the University of Nebraska have improved their graduation rates in recent years, although its largest campus, UNL, continues to lag behind its peers, the NU Board of Regents heard today.
According to a research analyst's report, graduation rates at the University of Nebraska-Kearney and the University of Nebraska-Omaha exceed the average of their peers.
At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 63.7 percent of students who started college in 2002 had graduated by 2008. That's a nine percentage-point increase from the 54.4 percent six-year graduation rate in 2002, but still below the 68.4 percent average at comparable institutions.
At UNO, 42.5 percent of students graduated within six years in 2008, an 11 percentage-point increase from 2002 and above the 39.6 percent six-year graduation rate at comparable schools.
At UNK, 58.6 students graduated within six years in 2008, a nine-point increase since 2002 and above the 50.2 percent at comparable colleges.
The Board of Regents has made it a goal for each of the campuses to achieve the average six-year graduate rates of comparable institutions.
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