Length of Time to Complete Undergraduate Degree:
Percent Distribution of OUS Degree Recipients
Who Entered as Freshmen in 1991*

Within 4 Years

Between 4 and 5 Years

Between 5 and 6 Years

U.S. public institutions

36.1

31.1

12.1

(1990 college graduates)

OUS Total

46.5

41.6

11.8

Eastern Oregon University

31.5

50.9

17.6

Oregon Institute of Technology**

51.3

33.0

15.7

Oregon State University

41.4

47.2

11.4

Portland State University

35.3

47.0

17.7

Southern Oregon University

37.0

40.9

22.1

University of Oregon

57.4

34.2

8.4

Western Oregon University

40.7

48.3

11.0

*As a proportion of degree recipients through summer 1997.

**Aproximately one-third of the degrees awarded by OIT are 2-year degrees.

Source: OUS Institutional Research Services, annual freshman retention and graduation study, February 1998.