Retention Rate

Percentage of students who began in Fall 2022 and returned in Fall 2023 (Reference: College Navigator Retention and Grad Rates for WashU)

  • Full-time students: 96%
  • Part-time students: 100%
Graduation Rates (Student-Right-to-Know Act)

Six-year bachelor’s degree graduation rates for full-time, first-time students who began in Fall 2017 (within 150% of “normal” completion time) (Reference: College Navigator Retention and Grad Rates for WashU):

  • Overall: 94%
  • Male: 93%
  • Female: 95%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native: 100%
  • Asian: 96%
  • Black or African American: 92%
  • Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander: 100%
  • White: 95%
  • Two or more races: 92%
  • Race/ethnicity unknown: 88%
  • U.S. Nonresident: 98%

   

Outcomes for a Range of Degree-Seeking Undergraduates

For Degree/Certificate-Seeking Undergraduates who entered in 2015-2016 after 8 years (Reference: College Navigator Outcomes Measures for WashU):

First-time, Full-time Students         

Percentage who received a Certificate

  • Pell Students: 0%
  • Non-Pell Students: 0%
  • All Students: 0%

Percentage who received a Bachelor’s

  • Pell Students: 94%
  • Non-Pell Students: 93%
  • All Students: 93%

Percentage who enrolled at a different institution

  • Pell Students: 5%
  • Non-Pell Students: 4%
  • All Students: 4%

First-time, Part-time Students      

Percentage who received a Certificate

  • Pell Students: 0%
  • Non-Pell Students: 0%
  • All Students: 0%

Percentage who received a Bachelor’s

  • Pell Students: 100%
  • Non-Pell Students :78%
  • All Students: 80%

Percentage who enrolled at a different institution

  • Pell Students: 0%
  • Non-Pell Students: 11%
  • All Students: 10%

Non-first-time, Part-time Students

Percentage who received a Certificate

  • Pell Students: 10%
  • Non-Pell Students: 4%
  • All Students: 5%

Percentage who received a Bachelor’s

  • Pell Students: 50%
  • Non-Pell Students: 41%
  • All Students: 43%

Percentage who enrolled at a different institution

  • Pell Students: 20%
  • Non-Pell Students: 26%
  • All Students: 24%
Job Placement and Graduate or Professional Education Placement for WashU Graduates

The Career Center’s annual report provides more information on our graduate’s employment, continuing education, military service, volunteer service, or seeking status. The Vice Provost for Graduate Education and International Affairs provides information regarding the outcomes of our students who earn graduate and professional degrees. 

Licensure Pass Rates

Arts & Sciences

  • Clinical Psychology (PhD) 91%
  • Education (all programs) 100%

Brown School

  • Social Work (Masters – First-time) 91%
  • Social Work (Clinical – First-time) 95%

Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

Architecture (ARE 5.0)

  • Construction and Evaluation 75% *
  • Practice Management 56% *
  • Programming and Analysis 75% *
  • Project Development and Documentation 61% *
  • Project Management 63% *
  • Project Planning & Design 59% *

    * Above the National Average

School of Law

  • JD (First-time bar passage rate) 91.93%

School of Medicine

AuD (PRAXIS) 100 %

DPT (NPTE – Ultimate Exam Pass Rate) 98.4%

MD

  • Step 1 USMLE 96%
  • Step 2 CK USMLE 100%

MS in Deaf Education 100%

MS Genetic Counseling – First Available in 2026

MSOT (NBCOT) 100%

OTD (NBCOT) 96%