Cohort Flow

Retention and graduation pathways dashboard

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Follow one entering cohort, semester by semester

Cohort Flow tracks who continues, who changes college, who stops out and who graduates — and highlights the exact transitions where students are lost. Load your own de-identified cohort CSV, or explore the bundled synthetic sample (fictional, ~2,000 students).

How to use
  1. Pick a cohort and any subgroup filters in the bar below — every chart updates together.
  2. Read the Sankey for term-to-term flows, the retention curve for survival over time, and the leak finder for the biggest losses.
  3. Hover anything for detail; use Export to save charts as PNG or tables as CSV. Nothing ever leaves your browser.

Term-to-term flow

Students moving between terms — continuing, changing college, stopping out, graduating. Students who enter in a later term join the flow at their entry term, so a column can be larger than the one before it.

Retention curve

Share of each entering cohort still enrolled or already graduated, by terms since entry, with 95% confidence bands. Dashed marker: published IPEDS first-year retention for the University of Idaho.

Leak finder

Transitions with the largest losses, ranked. Hover or click a row to highlight it in the Sankey. Bar length = students lost; label = % of the cohort present the term before.

Small multiples by college

Retention by college for the selected cohort (dashed gridlines at 50% and 100%). Click a college to filter every chart; click it again to clear.

Published benchmarks — University of Idaho

Real, citable IPEDS / College Navigator figures (provisional releases). Shown for context; the sample cohort above is fictional and not comparable to these numbers.

Data & sources

Synthetic sample cohort SYNTHETIC · FICTIONAL

~2,000 fictional students across U of I–style colleges, generated deterministically (seed ) by scripts/generate_sample_cohort.py. No real student data is included. Never treat these numbers as actual University of Idaho figures.

Your imported CSV

Nothing imported yet. Imported files are parsed and used entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

Published headline figures REAL · CITED

  • First-year retention, Fall 2023 → Fall 2024: full-time 76%, part-time 18%. IPEDS Spring 2024-25 Fall Enrollment (provisional), released 2026-01-06.
  • Bachelor's graduation rates, Fall 2016 cohort: 4-year 41%, 6-year 61%, 8-year 63%. IPEDS Winter 2024-25 Graduation Rates (provisional), released 2025-12-09.
  • Graduation within 150% of normal time, Fall 2018 cohort: overall 57%, transfer-out 21%; by gender Men 54% / Women 61%; by Title IV aid: Pell 49.3%, Stafford-only 56.7%, neither 64.8%.
  • Outcome measures, 2016-17 entrants, 8 years after entry: full-time first-time award rate 62%, still enrolled 1%, enrolled elsewhere 21%.

U.S. Department of Education, NCES, IPEDS Institution Data Profile: University of Idaho (142285), nces.ed.gov/ipeds/institution-profile/142285, and College Navigator, nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=142285, retrieved September 13, 2026. U.S. Government work (17 U.S.C. §105); NCES asks that it be credited. Raw files and full retrieval notes: data/raw/SOURCES.md.