student success
Learner thriving academically
Student success is an educational term for the outcomes institutions aim to achieve with their students—graduation, course completion, career readiness, and similar metrics.
The phrase appears constantly in higher education contexts: The university hired a director of student success, student success initiatives.
It often signals institutional responsibility for helping students persist and thrive rather than sink or swim on their own.
- graduation ratesPercentage finishing their degrees
- GPACumulative academic score
- gradesAcademic performance ratings
- self-confidenceFaith in one's capabilities
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
career readiness · test scores · critical thinking · first-generation · motivation · time management · internships · hands-on learning · problem-solving · mentorship · financial literacy · adaptability · honors · empowerment · standardized assessments · belonging · collaboration · growth mindset
- education metricstest scores, graduation rates, grades, GPA, attendance rates
- Eduspeakpedagogy, curriculum mapping, scaffolding, rubric, formative
- Student Retentiongraduation rates, dropout prevention, academic advising, tutoring, mentoring
- student servicesdean of students, academic advising, advising, career services, career center
- educationeducation, school, schools, teachers, students
- learninglearning, learn, classes, instruction, studying
student successfailing grades
student successdropout
One who quits early
withdrawal · disengagement · chronic absenteeism · school refusal · disconnection