Chart (B) | How are retention rates of students of color trending vs. white students?

Race/ethnicity % of total undergraduate population:

First-year retention rate¹ of FTIC² students by race/ethnicity for undergraduate students

Students	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24
White	39%	39%	33%	36%	36%	35%	34%	34%	32%	32%	33%
Other	8%	8%	8%	7%	8%	7%	8%	6%	7%	7%	8%
Hispanic	8%	8%	8%	10%	10%	8%	9%	9%	10%	11%	11%
Black/AA	32%	32%	30%	38%	38%	41%	39%	41%	41%	40%	39%
Asian	5%	5%	4%	5%	4%	5%	4%	6%	5%	5%	5%

1. Rate of first-year students retained into second year.
2. First time in college full-time students.
3. Excludes populations comprising less than 5% of student population each year.
4. Retention rate for students of color at Total Public Four-Year Institutions.
5. Foreign Students & Unknown/Unreported figures omitted from the data.
Source: SCHEV Research Sub-Cohort Retention and Completion Rate Trends; SCHEV Research RT01: Retention Report (First-time, Full-time Students); SCHEV Research E22: Fall Headcount Trends in Race Ethnicity.