Length of Time to Complete the Bachelor's Degree:
Percent Distribution of OSSHE Degree Recipients
Who Entered as Freshmen in 1988-89*

Within 4 Years

Between 4 and 5 Years

Between 5 and 7 Years

U.S. public institutions

36.1

31.1

32.8

(1990 college graduates)

OSSHE Total

33.9

45.5

20.6

University of Oregon

39.7

43.1

17.2

Oregon State University

33.6

47.9

18.5

Portland State University

18.0

47.4

34.7

Western Oregon State College

30.8

47.2

22.0

Southern Oregon State College

26.8

45.2

28.0

Eastern Oregon State College

20.7

48.6

30.6

Oregon Institute of Technology

31.7

41.3

27.0

*As a proportion of degree recipients through spring 1995.
Sources: (1) OSSHE Institutional Research, annual freshman retention and graduation study, March 1996. (2) U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The Condition of Education 1993, page 26.