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Black and Hispanic College Freshmen Return for Their Second Year at Highest Rate in a Decade
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- monitoring Jun 25, 2026, 01:00 PM UTC
Nearly 86 percent of the 2.62 million students who entered college in the fall of 2024 returned for their second semester — and more than 77 percent returned the next fall, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Those rates held steady from the prior year.