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Office designed to improve graduation, retention rates

By Brian Singer | October 17, 2012

There’s an office on campus dedicated to making sure students graduate. The Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning (OSEEL), a Vision 2020 initiative, was put into place to help improve graduation and retention rates among students to...

The average graduation rate for NIU students from fall 2011 to fall 2006 stands at 26 percent for four-year students, 47.8 percent for five-year students and 52.5 percent for six-year students.

Retention and graduation rates affect students, university

By Jessica Sabbah | May 3, 2011

Since fall 2006, NIU has seen a decline in enrollment by about 5.8 percent. Although NIU is not the only four-year Illinois public institution to suffer a dip in enrollment between fall 2006 and fall 2010, other schools have grown over the past four years....