87%

Second-year retention rate
(Indicator Number: 3)

Category: Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment

What It Measures: Relative quality of new freshmen & their success in their freshman year

Data Reporting Lag: The reporting for this indicator has a 2 year difference. The latest data available is from 2022 for the indicator reporting year of 2024

Value Comparison: When comparing this value for Adequacy and Improvement, a higher value is better.

Data Source For Indicator Value: IPEDS

Data Source For Peer Value: IPEDS

Benchmark Set By: Peers

IMPROVEMENT

87%
is currently at or above the average of the 3 previous years (87%)


ADEQUACY

87%
is currently at or above the benchmark set by Peers (87%)



University of Maryland, Baltimore County's peers as of 2015

University of California, Riverside
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Massachusetts - Lowell
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
New Jersey Institute of Technology
State University of New York at Albany
Binghamton University
North Carolina State University
Miami University
George Mason University