Riverside, Ca –
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) - UC Riverside is one of a handful of comprehensive universities that have achieved near parity in graduation rates across racial, socio-economic, and gender boundaries. That success has now been recognized by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), which represents 236 public and land-grant institutions in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
UC Riverside won the 2016 "Project Degree Completion Award" for innovation in boosting graduation rates, the APLU announced at its annual meeting last weekend. UCR's four-year graduation rates in 2015 reached 53 percent, and six-year graduation rates were 73 percent - up 11 percent and 7 percent, respectively, from four years earlier.