Student Outcomes

Empowering Success

Hawkeye Community College shares comprehensive data about student success and composition. It highlights key facts like graduation rates, transfer rates, student retention, and licensure exam pass rates. These metrics demonstrate the College's commitment to fostering academic achievement and career readiness.

The College is committed to creating a welcoming and supportive environment for everyone.

Hawkeye Community College's student body composition for Fall 2025 enrolled, full-time students:

  • Male: 42%
  • Female: 58%

Pell Grant Recipients

Student body composition for full-time students enrolled during the 2025–2026 academic year receiving a Pell grant:

  • Male: 304
  • Female: 523

A breakdown of the major racial or ethnic group of full-time students receiving a Pell grant for 2025–2026 is as follows:

  • Hispanic: 26
  • White: 539
  • Black or African American: 130
  • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: 4
  • American Indian or Alaskan Native: 2
  • Asian: 25
  • Two or More Races: 99
  • Unknown: 2

Retention rate is the percent of Hawkeye Community College's first-time, full-time undergraduate degree seeking students who continue at Hawkeye the next year. The information reported is based on IPEDs report on a Fall 2024 cohort.

Hawkeye Community College's current first-time, full-time retention rate is 66%.

Hawkeye Community College's Transfer-Out rate based on first-time, full-time Fall 2022 is 12%.

Transfer-Out rate is defined as the total number of students who are known to have transferred out of the reporting institution within 150% of normal time to completion divided by the adjusted cohort.

An Adjusted Cohort is defined as the result of removing any allowable exclusions from a cohort (or subcohort). For the Fall Enrollment component, it is the cohort for calculating retention rate; for the Graduation Rates component, this is the cohort from which graduation and transfer-out rates are calculated; and for the Outcome Measures component, these are the four cohorts (full-time, first-time; part-time-first-time; full-time, non-first-time; and part-time, non-first-time) for which outcomes rates are calculated at 4, 6, and 8 years.

Financial aid data for first-time, full-time undergraduate students for cohort year 2022.

  • Pell Grant Recipients: 274
  • Subsidized Stafford loan recipients who did not receive a Pell Grant: 84
  • Recipients of neither a Pell grant nor a Subsidized Stafford Loan: 359

The graduation rate reflects students who started classes in the Fall of 2022, completed their program of study, and applied for graduation within 150% of the suggested length of study.

For example, students who started a two-year program, completed the program in three years, and applied for graduation are calculated in the graduation rate.

The graduation rate does not count students who started a program in the Fall of 2022 but transferred their completed coursework to another college or university prior to graduating.

The graduation rate for individual programs may vary.

Graduation Rate Percentages

  • Male: 51%
  • Female: 48%
  • Total Average: 50%

Graduation Rate Percentages by Sex and Race

  Male Female
Nonresident Alien 43% 62%
Hispanic/Latino 35% 55%
American Indian or Alaska Native 20% 0
Asian 0 50%
Black or African American 14% 11%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 0 0
White 57% 51%
Two or more races 57% 54%

Students Who Graduated within 150% and Received Pell; and/or Federal Loans and Not Receiving Pell; and/or Federal Loans, by Ethnic Group and Sex—Cohort Year 2022

  Pell Recipient Federal Direct
Loan Recipient		 Did Not Receive
Pell		 Did Not Receive
Pell or Federal
Direct Loan
  Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female
Nonresident Alien 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Hispanic/Latino 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
American Indian or Alaska Native 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.28% 0.00%
Asian 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.28% 0.00% 0.28% 0.00% 0.56%
Black or African American 0.56% 0.56% 0.56% 0.84% 0.00% 0.28% 0.28% 0.00%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
White 16.29% 10.67% 17.13% 22.47% 6.46% 6.18% 30.62% 17.70%
Two or more races 1.40% 0.56% 1.69% 0.84% 0.28% 0.28% 1.12% 0.28%
Unknown 0.84% 1.97% 1.40% 2.25% 0.56% 0.28% 0.00% 0.00%
Sub Percent by Gender 11.24% 7.87% 3.37% 2.81% 28.37% 14.89% 25.00% 12.08%
Sub Percent by Group 19.10% 6.18% 43.26% 37.08%

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