Rio Salado College

What are the graduation rates for students at Rio Salado College?

Rio Salado College's reported overall graduation rate is 9% in the 2024-25 institutional data. This is a defined completion measure, not the percentage of every person who has ever taken a Rio Salado class and eventually earned a credential.

Federal graduation-rate reporting generally follows a cohort of first-time, full-time students and measures completion within 150% of a program's normal length. That approach can leave out part-time learners, transfer entrants and students taking a course for a purpose other than completing a Rio Salado award. The rate still raises an important planning question for a degree-seeking applicant: what sequence of courses, advising and time commitment will their chosen credential require?

The figure alone cannot explain why individual students did or did not complete. Applicants comparing colleges should use consistent cohort definitions and, where possible, examine program-specific outcomes alongside the institution-wide rate.

What is the earning potential for graduates at Rio Salado College?

A reliable one-year earnings figure is not established here for Rio Salado's listed fields of special education and teaching or public administration. No salary conclusion about graduates in either field follows from those program names.

Earnings measures, when available, usually describe a specified group of former students at a specified time after attendance or completion - not a salary promised to a new enrollee. They can be affected by occupation, location, prior work experience, further education and whether the measure includes only students with usable earnings records. For a career decision, compare any published earnings measure with the program's cost, credential requirements and the jobs it is designed to prepare students for.