Retention & Graduation Rates
The retention & graduation reports detail retention, continuation, and graduation rates for first-time, full-time baccalaureate students from the fall 2016 through fall 2025 incoming cohorts at UMaine and UMaine Machias, both overall and disaggregated by college. The non-retained student report examines where first-time, full-time undergraduate students who were not retained at UMaine went.
Rates by College
College of Education & Human Development
EDHD Retention and Graduation Rates – 2016-2025 Cohorts (Opens in new tab)
Maine College of Engineering and Computing
MCEC Retention and Graduation Rates – 2016-2025 Cohorts (Opens in new tab)
MCEC Retention and Graduation Rates (Excluding Pre-Engineering Explorations) – 2016-2025 Cohorts (Opens in new tab)
MCEC Retention and Graduation Rates (Pre-Engineering Explorations Only) – 2016-2025 Cohorts (Opens in new tab)
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
LAS Retention and Graduation Rates – 2016-2025 Cohorts (Opens in new tab)
LAS Retention and Graduation Rates (Excluding Explorations & Foundations) – 2016-2025 Cohorts – (Opens in new tab)
LAS Retention and Graduation Rates (Explorations Only) – 2016-2025 Cohorts (Opens in new tab)
College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences
ELH Retention and Graduation Rates – 2016-2025 Cohorts (Opens in new tab)
Non-Retained and Peer Comparison Reports
First-Time Undergraduate Non-Retained Report (Fall 2023)
IPEDS Peer Comparison Report – Retention and Graduation Rates (Updated 2026) (Opens in new tab)
The Student Achievement Measure (SAM) Project
The purpose of the SAM Project is to enhance transparency and provide the public with a more comprehensive measure of college student progress and completion. It is a collaborative effort of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), the American Council on Education (ACE), the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU).