Delgado Community College’s graduate rate is 5 percent.
It was one of Louisiana’s two-year colleges recording the lowest graduation rates in the state, according to a Watchdog analysis of federal education data.
The analysis is based on numbers from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which is a unit of the U.S. Department of Education. The NCES provides the most current data on graduation rates, pricing, enrollment and accreditation at more than 7,000 post-secondary campuses. It is available through the NCES Web portal, College Navigator.
The analysis includes the graduation rates of students who began in fall 2013 at two-year schools reported to the U.S. Department of Education. Those time periods reflect 150 percent of the “normal time” for students to complete their academic programs.
Louisiana schools with the worst graduation rates
| Rank | School | City | Enrollment | Graduation rate |
| 1 | Delgado Community College | New Orleans | 15,110 | 5% |
| 2 | Southern University at Shreveport | Shreveport | 3,240 | 9% |
| 3 | Bossier Parish Community College | Bossier City | 6,714 | 10% |
| 4 | Baton Rouge Community College | Baton Rouge | 7,297 | 11% |
| 5 | Louisiana State University-Eunice | Eunice | 2,906 | 11% |
| 6 | Nunez Community College | Chalmette | 2,586 | 15% |
| 7 | River Parishes Community College | Gonzales | 1,980 | 18% |
| 8 | Fletcher Technical Community College | Schriever | 2,063 | 24% |
| 9 | Louisiana Delta Community College | Monroe | 3,242 | 27% |
| 10 | Setting the Standard Barbering and Natural Hair Academy | Shreveport | 14 | 30% |
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
This article was first published by Watchdog.org newswire.
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