The four-year-college graduation rate metric is one of many that factor into the overall Best States rankings. See the Best States methodology for a detailed look at the data behind the analysis.

Instead of the usual setup — a volunteer professor announcing students’ names as they cross the graduation stage — it would ... to retain human parts of the college experience that students ...

5 Years after the events of College Life Atlanta ... do their best to band together so they can all walk across the graduation stage together.

Inside Rockford University’s Burpee Center, the dean of student support programming assembles the finishing touches for a ...