The Institutional Research Office maintains statistics about retention and graduation rates for our students at Daemen University. Typically, retention and graduation rates are determined for cohorts of first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who matriculate in a specified fall term. The most recent retention and graduation rates for these cohorts are shown below.
Fall-to-fall retention rate:
- Fall 2023 cohort: 75.5%
- Fall 2022 cohort: 80.4%
- Fall 2021 cohort: 73.5%
- Fall 2020 cohort: 81.2%
- Fall 2019 cohort: 79.1%
4-year graduation rate:
- Fall 2020 cohort 47.5%
- Fall 2019 cohort 45.6%
- Fall 2018 cohort: 47.3%
- Fall 2017 cohort: 45.0%
- Fall 2016 cohort: 42.9%
6-year graduation rate:
- Fall 2018 cohort 58.9%
- Fall 2017 cohort 58.4%
- Fall 2016 cohort: 54.8%
- Fall 2015 cohort: 57.3%
- Fall 2014 cohort: 58.7%