A new report issued by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center indicates that 41% of community college graduates with no previous certificates and degrees went on to earn a bachelor’s degree within the next six years, according to Inside Higher Ed.
The report indicated that the most successful community college graduate student population were those students at 20 years of age or younger, with 62% of them achieving a bachelor’s degree by the six-year mark. The center’s report analyzed 575,067 community college students who had graduated from community college in 2011.
While 65% of community college graduates overall enroll in a four-year degree program after receiving their associate degree, the farther a student gets from the traditional age of a student, the less likely he or she is to matriculate to a four-year institution and graduate. 80.4% of students 20 years of age or younger do compared to 67.3% of students between the ages of 20 and 24 and 57.7% of students who were over 24 years of age. 32% of the total community college graduate population over 24 years old would eventually attain a bachelor’s, according to the report.
