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This set of Web Tables is the third in a series of four that together provide key information about 2011-12 first-time postsecondary students' characteristics and their 6-year retention, persistence, attainment, withdrawal, stopout, and transfer rates. The series draws on data collected for the 2012/17 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:12/17)--a nationally representative longitudinal sample survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)--which followed first-time students for 6 years after they began their postsecondary education. This set of Web Tables highlights 6-year persistence and attainment rates at "any institution attended." The tables indicate the percentage of 2011-12 first-time postsecondary students who attained a certificate, an associate's degree, or a bachelor's degree at any institution by spring 2017. They also show whether those who had not yet attained a credential were enrolled at a 4-year institution, enrolled at a less-than-4-year institution, or not enrolled in spring 2017. There are two sections of tables. Section 1 provides persistence and attainment rates at any institution for all first-time postsecondary students (tables 1.1-A through 1.1-D) and then for first-time postsecondary students by the control (i.e., public, private nonprofit, and private for-profit) and level (i.e., less-than-2-year, 2-year, or 4-year) of the first institution they attended. Section 2 of this publication focuses on the same outcomes addressed in section 1, persistence and attainment at any institution, but provides estimates for first-time postsecondary students who were pursuing different types of degree programs when they began in 2011-12. [For the second set of Web Tables in this series, see ED607119.]

This set of Web Tables is the fourth in a series of four that together provide key information about 2011-12 first-time postsecondary students' characteristics and their 6-year retention, persistence, attainment, withdrawal, stopout, and transfer rates. The series draws on data collected for the 2012/17 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:12/17)--a nationally representative longitudinal sample survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)--which followed first-time students for 6 years after they began their postsecondary education. This fourth set of Web Tables has two sections. Section 1 focuses on withdrawal, presenting the year-by-year, cumulative rates at which first-time students withdrew from postsecondary education without a degree. These withdrawal rates are shown in terms of the academic years (from July 1 to June 30) in which students were not enrolled and had not returned by spring 2017. Section 2 of these Web Tables explores stopout and transfer. "Stopout" is defined as a break in enrollment of 5 or more consecutive months. [For the third set of Web Tables in this series, see ED607249.]

This set of Web Tables is the first in a series of four that together provide key information about 2011-12 first-time postsecondary students' characteristics and their 6-year retention, persistence, attainment, withdrawal, stopout, and transfer rates. The series draws on data collected for the 2012/17 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:12/17)--a nationally representative longitudinal sample survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)--which followed first-time students for 6 years after they began their postsecondary education. There are two sections of tables. Section 1 provides percentage distributions of first-time postsecondary students' personal, precollege academic, and beginning enrollment characteristics and postsecondary experiences by control and level of the institution they first attended (tables 1.1-A through 1.1-D) and by the degree programs they first pursued (tables 1.2-A through 1.2-D). Section 2 focuses on 2011-12 tuition, price of attendance, and financial aid receipt, by personal, precollege academic, and beginning enrollment characteristics and postsecondary experiences. It provides estimates for all first-time postsecondary students (tables 2.1-A through 2.1-D and 2.2-A through 2.2-D) as well as the 58 percent of all first-time postsecondary students who attended full-time, full-year only (tables 2.3-A through 2.3-D and 2.4-A through 2.4-D). For each of these populations of students, the first of the two tables includes information on their average tuition and fees; their average total price of attendance; the percentage who received financial aid, grants, and loans; and the average amounts received in these forms of aid. The second of the two tables spotlights grant receipt, displaying the percentage who received Pell, state, institution, and merit-only grants and the average amounts received for each of these types of grants. Amounts are averaged only among aid recipients (e.g., students who did not receive any grant aid are not included when computing average grant amounts).