Cal State Northridge is one of 23 CSU System institutions.
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As the end of a decade-long push to graduate more students nears, California State University made slight progress in 2024 on increasing the four-year graduation rate for freshmen but saw six-year freshmen rates stall and four-year transfer rates drop, new statistics show.
Those numbers show the difficulties the university system faces in its final efforts to improve its graduation rates, even after significant overall improvement toward ambitious goals over the previous nine years.
The data were presented Tuesday at a two-day symposium on graduation goals ahead of spring 2025, when the CSU system’s much-scrutinized Graduation Initiative 2025 effort is supposed to end. CSU officials urged colleagues to learn more about why many students are dropping out or taking so long to finish.
Across the CSU system, freshmen six-year…
