College Graduation
New Haven Promise graduation rate, which tops 65% for students who attended four-year colleges, outpaces national rates in every measure. Virtually every segment of students – disaggregated by race, household income or parent education – attains a graduation rate above 60 percent.
Graduation Rate In Bachelor’s Programs
Promise Makes A Difference
- A student who qualifies for New Haven Promise is 3.5 times more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree than a student who does not.
- Promise qualifiers are 1.5 times more likely to enroll in college or university directly after high school.
- Promise qualifiers are 1.4 times more likely to persist into a second year of college or university.
- 80% of all scholarship funds that Promise disbursed have resulted directly into a bachelor’s degree.
Graduation Rate Disaggregated
Disparities in college graduation rates persist among student groups with varying household incomes, parental education levels, and high school GPAs.
Promise Graduation Rate Leaderboards
| High School | College Graduation Rate |
| Career | 79.0% |
| ESUMS | 72.7% |
| Sound | 72.1% |
| Common Ground | 71.4% |
| NH Academy | 71.4% |
| AF Amistad | 70.3% |
| Cross | 65.9% |
| MBA | 61.3% |
| Co-Op | 58.2% |
| Hillhouse | 56.4% |
| Creed/Hyde | 50.0% |
| HSC | 49.0% |
| In-State Colleges & Universities | College Graduation Rate |
| Yale | 95.0% |
| * Sacred Heart, Trinity, Conn College, Wesleyan | 93.1% |
| Quinnipiac | 74.2% |
| UConn | 72.1% |
| SCSU | 66.4% |
| UNewHaven | 61.7% |
| Albertus | 60.4% |
| CCSU | 58.5% |
| ECSU | 58.1% |
| * U Bridgeport, Fairfield U, U Hartford | 53.1% |
| WCSU | 47.3% |
* Due to limited sample sizes, universities with fewer scholars are grouped together for calculating graduation rates.
| New Haven Neighborhoods | College Graduation Rate |
| Westville | 77.7% |
| East Shore | 75.6% |
| Annex | 74.5% |
| Fair Haven Heights | 71.6% |
| East Rock | 68.1% |
| Beaver Hills | 67.1% |
| Fair Haven | 65.4% |
| Amity | 63.8% |
| Dwight | 63.3% |
| The Hill | 62.0% |
| Newhallville | 61.5% |
| West River | 60.0% |
| Downtown | 58.3% |
| Quinnipiac Meadows | 57.0% |
| Wooster Square/Mill River | 56.3% |
| Prospect Hill | 56.0% |
| West Rock | 50.0% |
| Edgewood | 48.9% |
| Dixwell | 44.9% |