This report shows retention (% of students who return to a college to begin their 2nd year after entering the year prior) for individual colleges. Tables are sorted by 2019 retention. Please use the searchable blocks to find specific colleges. Tables include the average retention for 2010-2014, 2015-2018 and then for 2019 (the most recent data provided by the Department of Education).
College | City | Avg Retention Percentage 2010 to 2014 | Avg Retention Percentage 2015 to 2018 | Retention Percentage 2019 |
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Vaughn Tech | Flushing | 73 | 75 | 76 |
Adelphi | Garden City | 81 | 81 | 78 |
Adirondack CC | Queensbury | 57 | 57 | 55 |
Alfred | Alfred | 72 | 73 | 72 |
American MusDram Academy | New York | 84 | 74 | 79 |
Bard | Annandale-On-Hudson | 87 | 84 | 85 |
Barnard | New York | 95 | 95 | 95 |
Berkeley-New York | New York | 55 | 58 | 67 |
SUNY Broome | Binghamton | 57 | 52 | 50 |
Canisius | Buffalo | 82 | 83 | 83 |
Cayuga County CC | Auburn | 52 | 54 | 52 |
Clarkson | Potsdam | 86 | 86 | 87 |
Colgate | Hamilton | 94 | 94 | 94 |
Columbia | New York | 96 | 97 | 98 |
Concordia-New York | Bronxville | 71 | 75 | 63 |
Cornell | Ithaca | 96 | 97 | 97 |
Corning CC | Corning | 53 | 56 | 57 |
Culinary Inst of America | Hyde Park | 98 | 76 | 80 |
CUNY Baruch | New York | 89 | 89 | 89 |
CUNY Manhattan | New York | 62 | 59 | 57 |
CUNY Bronx | Bronx | 57 | 55 | 54 |
CUNY Brooklyn | Brooklyn | 83 | 81 | 79 |
CUNY Staten Island | Staten Island | 81 | 77 | 74 |
CUNY City College | New York | 85 | 85 | 84 |
CUNY Hostos CC | Bronx | 62 | 59 | 56 |
CUNY Hunter | New York | 85 | 83 | 81 |
CUNY John Jay College | New York | 78 | 77 | 79 |
CUNY Kingsborough | Brooklyn | 65 | 67 | 63 |
CUNY LaGuardia | Long Island City | 62 | 59 | 57 |
CUNY Lehman | Bronx | 80 | 82 | 82 |
CUNY Medgar Evers | Brooklyn | 64 | 63 | 61 |
CUNY NYC Technology | Brooklyn | 75 | 74 | 66 |
CUNY Queens | Flushing | 85 | 83 | 81 |
CUNY Queensborough | Bayside | 68 | 62 | 61 |
CUNY York | Jamaica | 76 | 70 | 61 |
D'Youville | Buffalo | 73 | 78 | 79 |
Daemen | Amherst | 76 | 77 | 77 |
Dominican Blauvelt | Orangeburg | 67 | 71 | 68 |
Dutchess CC | Poughkeepsie | 60 | 61 | 63 |
Erie CC | Buffalo | 50 | 51 | 53 |
Fashion Inst of Technology | New York | 86 | 88 | 89 |
Finger Lakes CC | Canandaigua | 51 | 54 | 52 |
Fordham | Bronx | 88 | 90 | 90 |
Fulton-Montgomery CC | Johnstown | 53 | 53 | 56 |
Genesee CC | Batavia | 53 | 54 | 49 |
Hamilton | Clinton | 95 | 94 | 94 |
Hartwick | Oneonta | 74 | 72 | 73 |
Herkimer County CC | Herkimer | 54 | 57 | 61 |
Hobart William Smith | Geneva | 87 | 85 | 88 |
Hofstra | Hempstead | 79 | 80 | 82 |
Hudson Valley CC | Troy | 54 | 56 | 58 |
Iona | New Rochelle | 82 | 75 | 72 |
Ithaca | Ithaca | 84 | 84 | 86 |
Jamestown CC | Jamestown | 58 | 57 | 58 |
Jefferson CC | Watertown | 52 | 52 | 48 |
Keuka | Keuka Park | 74 | 69 | 79 |
LIM | New York | 68 | 72 | 70 |
Le Moyne | Syracuse | 85 | 85 | 86 |
Long Island | Brookville | 71 | 74 | 75 |
Manhattan College | Bronx | 85 | 84 | 80 |
Manhattanville | Purchase | 73 | 75 | 70 |
Marist | Poughkeepsie | 90 | 89 | 88 |
Marymount Manhattan | New York | 68 | 72 | 69 |
Medaille | Buffalo | 63 | 63 | 60 |
Mercy | Dobbs Ferry | 67 | 73 | 76 |
Mohawk Valley CC | Utica | 55 | 57 | 59 |
Molloy | Rockville Centre | 87 | 87 | 83 |
Monroe | Bronx | 71 | 75 | 78 |
Monroe CC | Rochester | 56 | 58 | 55 |
Mount St Mary | Newburgh | 70 | 79 | 79 |
Mt St Vincent | Bronx | 70 | 75 | 77 |
Nassau CC | Garden City | 69 | 67 | 62 |
Nazareth | Rochester | 81 | 83 | 83 |
New Rochelle | New Rochelle | 55 | 56 | |
The New School | New York | 82 | 81 | 82 |
NYU | New York | 91 | 93 | 94 |
Niagara County CC | Sanborn | 59 | 60 | 62 |
Niagara | Niagara University | 81 | 83 | 87 |
New York Institute of Tech | Old Westbury | 69 | 72 | 79 |
Nyack | Nyack | 66 | 67 | 62 |
Onondaga CC | Syracuse | 53 | 53 | 50 |
Orange County CC | Middletown | 58 | 60 | 59 |
Pace | New York | 75 | 78 | 78 |
Pratt Institute-Main | Brooklyn | 84 | 86 | 88 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic | Troy | 93 | 92 | 92 |
Roberts Wesleyan | Rochester | 79 | 78 | 79 |
Rochester Inst of Tech | Rochester | 87 | 88 | 88 |
Rochester U | Rochester | 95 | 96 | 93 |
Rockland CC | Suffern | 70 | 65 | 63 |
Sage | Troy | 77 | 78 | 72 |
St Bonaventure | Saint Bonaventure | 81 | 84 | 83 |
St Francis | Brooklyn Heights | 79 | 75 | 75 |
St Lawrence | Canton | 90 | 90 | 90 |
St Rose | Albany | 78 | 76 | 69 |
St. Thomas Aquinas | Sparkill | 75 | 77 | 71 |
Sarah Lawrence | Bronxville | 86 | 83 | 83 |
Schenectady County CC | Schenectady | 53 | 51 | 49 |
Siena | Loudonville | 87 | 88 | 86 |
Skidmore | Saratoga Springs | 93 | 92 | 91 |
St John Fisher | Rochester | 84 | 85 | 87 |
St John's | Queens | 78 | 82 | 81 |
SUNY Alfred | Alfred | 78 | 72 | 77 |
SUNY Canton | Canton | 74 | 77 | 69 |
SUNY Delhi | Delhi | 71 | 75 | 72 |
SUNY Ag Cobleskill | Cobleskill | 77 | 72 | 76 |
Farmingdale State | Farmingdale | 81 | 80 | 79 |
SUNY Morrisville | Morrisville | 68 | 63 | 67 |
SUNY at Albany | Albany | 82 | 82 | 79 |
Binghamton | Binghamton | 89 | 91 | 89 |
Buffalo | Buffalo | 87 | 86 | 86 |
Stony Brook | Stony Brook | 90 | 89 | 88 |
SUNY Environmental | Syracuse | 85 | 85 | 82 |
SUNY Polytechnic Institute | Utica | 74 | 77 | 74 |
SUNY Brockport | Brockport | 81 | 79 | 73 |
SUNY Buffalo State | Buffalo | 74 | 66 | 58 |
SUNY Cortland | Cortland | 82 | 78 | 79 |
SUNY Fredonia | Fredonia | 77 | 76 | 70 |
SUNY Geneseo | Geneseo | 90 | 86 | 84 |
SUNY New Paltz | New Paltz | 88 | 86 | 85 |
SUNY Oneonta | Oneonta | 85 | 84 | 80 |
SUNY Oswego | Oswego | 78 | 78 | 77 |
SUNY Potsdam | Potsdam | 76 | 74 | 72 |
SUNY Purchase | Purchase | 81 | 81 | 80 |
SUNY Old Westbury | Old Westbury | 78 | 78 | 75 |
SUNY Plattsburgh | Plattsburgh | 80 | 80 | 74 |
SUNY Empire State | Saratoga Springs | 52 | 52 | 52 |
SUNY Maritime | Bronx | 79 | 85 | 78 |
Syracuse | Syracuse | 91 | 90 | 91 |
Tompkins Cortland CC | Dryden | 51 | 46 | 45 |
Touro | New York | 71 | 62 | 74 |
Ulster County CC | Stone Ridge | 56 | 58 | 55 |
Union College | Schenectady | 92 | 92 | 93 |
United Talmudical Seminary | Brooklyn | 89 | 90 | 91 |
Utica | Utica | 68 | 72 | 70 |
Vassar | Poughkeepsie | 95 | 95 | 96 |
School of Visual Arts | New York | 80 | 85 | 86 |
Wagner | Staten Island | 82 | 80 | 80 |
SUNY Westchester | Valhalla | 60 | 60 | 63 |
Yeshiva | New York | 93 | 89 | 90 |
Suffolk County CC | Selden | 61 | 65 | 64 |
ASA College | Brooklyn | 38 | 40 | |
Uta Mesivta of Kiryas Joel | Monroe | 95 | 97 | 96 |