The DHE, collaborating with the Executive Office of Education and the Commonwealth’s public colleges and universities, is engaged in a wide-ranging effort to modernize data and analytics systems, and improve analytic capabilities. Our mission is to “Drive organizational transformation by prioritizing evidence over intuition, with data at the center of every conversation.”

The link below provides the following DHE reports pertaining to Success & Completion.

Community Colleges:

Annual Credit Course Complete Rate

First-Year Retention Rate

Number of Annual Degrees and Certificates Awarded

State Universities:

First-Year Retention Rate

Six-Year Graduation Rate

Data on the number of degrees and certificates awarded annually can be found on the E2C Research and Data Hub.

This report provides the number and percentage of Massachusetts public high school graduates who completed the MassCore curriculum each year since 2009.

MassCore is a state-recommended program of study intended to align high school coursework with college and workforce expectations. The program of studies includes the successful completion of four units of English, four units of mathematics, three units of a lab-based science, three units of history, two units of the same world language, one unit of the arts, and five additional "core" courses. A computer science course that includes rigorous mathematical or scientific concepts and aligns with the 2016 Digital Literacy and Computer Science Framework can substitute for either a mathematics course or a laboratory science course. For more information on MassCore please click here.

MassCore completion rates are not reported for any student group where the number graduated is less than 6.

This dataset contains the same data that is also published on our DESE Profiles site:
MassCore