NOTE: Total estimates include students of unknown race/ethnicity who are not reported separately.
The percentage of students graduating with an associate's degree within 150 percent of normal time of entry from the 2-year degree-granting institutions where the students started as full-time, first-time students, in the U.S. was lower for the cohort entry year of 2006 than it was for the cohort entry year of 2001.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2008-09 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Spring 2010.