First Generation College Students And Their Post-Secondary Performance

A Statistics in Brief report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) focuses on students whose parents have not attended college and examines these students’ high school success and postsecondary enrollment, persistence, and degree completion once they enrolled in college, and graduate school enrollment and employment outcomes after they attained a bachelor’s degree.

The report can be obtained at https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/2018421.pdf.