Guide to performance indicators in higher education
Non-completion rates - projected outcomes (Table T5)
Another way to look at non-completion rates is to use information on current movements of students to project what would happen in the long run. Thus the indicators in Table T5 project what proportion of students will eventually gain a degree, what proportion will leave their current university or college but transfer into higher education elsewhere, and what proportion will leave higher education altogether without any qualification.
Findings
Nationally, 82 per cent of students who start on a first degree course are projected to get a degree eventually, although some may transfer to another institution along the way. Only 16 per cent of students are projected not to gain any qualification; the remaining 2 per cent are expected to achieve a qualification below degree level.
For the majority of universities and colleges, between 70 and 90 per cent of entrants are projected to graduate from the institution where they started. At a small number of institutions this figure is less than 60 per cent.
Last updated 11 December 2003