Credit: Cleveland State University

If you’re reading this, there’s a chance you or someone you know went to Cuyahoga Community College or Cleveland State University. Maybe even both.  

An upcoming report from Richey Piiparinen, founding director at Cleveland State University’s Center for Population Dynamics, offers some data to back up those assumptions. This study, “Where are Graduates of Select Cuyahoga County’s Higher Ed Schools Going After Graduation,” looks at whether graduates of public universities stayed in Ohio five years post-grad.

Spoiler alert: They do. In fact, as Piiparinen told Crain’s Cleveland Business and Open Campus last year, Cleveland does well at getting people to stay. It’s attracting new residents that’s more challenging.

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Take a look at the graphs below to see how Cleveland’s public higher education institutions stack up against their peers across the state when it comes to retention.

Higher Education Reporter (she/her)
I look at who is getting to and through Cleveland’s three biggest colleges, along with what challenges and supports they encounter along the way. How that happens -- and how universities wield their power during that process -- impacts all of the city’s residents as well as our collective future. I am a first-generation college graduate reporting for Signal Cleveland in partnership with the national nonprofit news organization Open Campus.

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I strive to bring transparency to local civic data by focusing on information that the community wants to see but that isn’t accessible. I aim to interpret data about communities for those communities, not for the gaze of outsiders. I also help Signal Cleveland gather and use feedback from staff and the community on how well we are carrying out our mission.