Success Across Student Dimensions: New Data From the 2025 SCCO

Jun 16, 2026

In the 2025 Survey of Community College Outcomes (SCCO), we collected data from 189 institutions across 10 states (Arkansas, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia). These data cover credit and non-credit enrollment for the 2023-2024 study year as well as student success rates for a cohort of students who entered each institution during the 2020-2021 academic or fiscal year. In February, the Richmond Fed released a subset of success rate data from the 2025 SCCO. In this release, we provide aggregate success rates across a wider range of student characteristics.

The SCCO is designed to create institution-level measures. However, understanding broader patterns across student groups is essential for improving post-secondary success and achieving maximum employment in our economy. In addition, understanding how student pathways and outcomes vary across student dimensions can help stakeholders target resources more effectively.

The 2025 SCCO success rate cohort comprises 297,939 students across 189 institutions. Data are not available for North Carolina and South Carolina across several student dimensions due to reporting inconsistencies; in those cases, the cohort comprises 193,590 students across 115 institutions across eight states.

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