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RVCC 2019 NECHE Self-Study

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CCSNH has done an excellent job ensuring its credentials have economic and transfer<br />

value. Our graduates stay in New Hampshire at an average rate of 77 percent over the<br />

last four years, as can be seen in the figure below, and this excludes students who attend<br />

a New Hampshire four-year university without concurrent in-state employment. The share<br />

of students from the bottom fifth of incomes as students that move to the top fifth as<br />

adults is 16 percent, which is among the top 10 percent for all community colleges across<br />

the country. The median income of former students at age 34 is $34,170, which is also a<br />

leader in the New England region for community college systems and also in the top decile<br />

in the country.<br />

If our awards confer economic and transfer value, then we need to increase the rate at which students<br />

attain them. Today, CCSNH has seen growth here, across all graduation cohorts and in terms of total<br />

awards as presented below:<br />

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