First-year retention is the proportion of entering freshmen who return for their sophomore year.

Sources: U.S. News and World Report’s America’s Best Colleges, various years. Retention data for Merced are from UC StatFinder files. Additional information can be found at http://statfinder.ucop.edu.

San Francisco has no undergraduates. Average retention rates for the entire group of AAU publics and AAU privates are not readily available as these data have to be individually collected.

You may view or download a table of the raw data used to generate these charts in CSV files, which can be opened in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.

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