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Chen, Xianglei; Caves, Lesa R.; Pretlow, Joshua; Caperton, Samuel Austin; Bryan, Michael; Cooney, Darryl – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
This First Look report presents selected findings from transcript data collected through the Postsecondary Education Transcript Study (PETS) for the 2011-12 cohort of the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:12). The students in the 2011-12 cohort were selected during the 2011-12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study…
Descriptors: Courses, College Credits, Time to Degree, Undergraduate Students
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Ifill, Nicole; Radford, Alexandria Walton; Wu, Joanna; Cataldi, Emily Forrest; Wilson, David; Hill, Jason – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
This report provides a "first look" at selected findings from the 2012/14 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:12/14). It is based on final data describing a nationally representative sample of undergraduates who entered postsecondary education for the first time during the 2011-12 academic year. BPS:12/14 covers the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Postsecondary Education, Academic Persistence, Educational Attainment
Berkner, Lutz; He, Shirley; Cataldi, Emily Forrest – 2002
This report describes the enrollment, persistence, and degree attainment of students who began postsecondary education for the first time in the 1995-1996 academic year. It covers the experiences of these first-time beginners over a period of 6 academic years, from 1995-1996 to 2000-2001, and provides information about the rates at which students…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Career Education
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Perna, Laura Walter – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1998
Examines the total direct and indirect effects of receiving financial aid on persistence to degree using a subsample of 1989 freshmen from the Beginning Postsecondary Student Survey. Analysis shows that although simply receiving financial aid is unrelated to persistence, the effects of financial aid on persistence appear to depend on type and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Dropout Research, Federal Programs, Financial Aid Applicants
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1998
This brief report presents data on employment and postsecondary persistence and attainment of higher education students, based on data from the 1990 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, Second Follow-up. Major findings include: (1) five years after initial enrollment, 89 percent of students had worked at some time while enrolled,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Colleges, Degrees (Academic)
Nunez, Anne-Marie – 1998
This paper provides initial results of a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of first-generation students, their college choices, their academic and social integration into the institution, their postsecondary persistence and attainment outcomes, and their labor market outcomes. The study analyzed data from the 1989-90…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Choice, College Outcomes Assessment, Education Work Relationship
Berkner, Lutz; Horn, Laura; Clune, Michael – 2000
This report, part of the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, provides information about the three-year persistence and degree attainment of students who began their postsecondary education in 1995-96, with a primary focus on students who started at less-than-4-year institutions. The report finds that many of the differences in the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Career Education