Length of Time to Complete the Bachelor's Degree:
Percent Distribution of OSSHE Degree Recipients
Who Entered as Freshmen in 1988-89*

                                               Within 4 Years     Between 4 and 5 Years       Between 5 and 7 Years

U.S. public institutions                           36.1                   31.1                        32.8
(1990 college graduates)

OSSHE Total                                        33.9                   45.5                        20.6

  University of Oregon                             39.7                   43.1                        17.2
  Oregon State University                          33.6                   47.9                        18.5
  Portland State University                        18.0                   47.4                        34.7
  Western Oregon State College                     30.8                   47.2                        22.0
  Southern Oregon State College                    26.8                   45.2                        28.0
  Eastern Oregon State College                     20.7                   48.6                        30.6
  Oregon Institute of Technology                   31.7                   41.3                        27.0

*As a proportion of degree recipients through spring 1995.
Sources: (1) OSSHE Institutional Research, annual freshman retention and graduation study, March 1996. (2) U.S. Depart-
ment of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The Condition of Education 1993, page 26.
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