When prospective college students begin looking for their future homes, one statistic they may want to evaluate is a school's freshman retention rate. This information—how many first-year students return to campus the following year—can be an important indicator in determining whether freshmen are satisfied with their experience at a particular school.
Among the 1,303 institutions that offered freshman retention rate data to U.S. News, the average retention rate is roughly 75 percent. The data provided in a 2010 survey of schools is a four-year average that covers freshmen entering college from fall 2005 through fall 2008 who returned to school the following fall. According to the data, 137 schools had a retention rate of at least 90 percent during that time period.
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