A study was done to compare the success of undergraduate engineering schools in graduating minorities from their programs. The study developed the following three parameters that can be used to define the performance of engineering schools in graduating minorities: (1) graduation rates of minorities; (2) graduation rates of minorities relative to those of non-minorities (the Relative Retention Index); and (3) absolute number of graduates. The study used national enrollment and graduation data supplied by 118 individual institutions. Findings indicate that only 35.6 percent of the minority freshman engineering majors studied had obtained a bachelor of science in engineering degree, while the rate for non-minorities was 68.4 percent. When minority graduation rates were recalculated beginning with a sophomore year baseline, the study found that minority sophomores were retained at rates somewhat better than freshmen, with 56.7 percent of them graduating, while almost 87.4 percent of the non-minority sophomores graduated. The study also conducted intrainstitutional comparisons of graduation rates of minorities and variation in rates by ethnicity. Included are 5 graphs, 13 tables, and 2 appendices containing 2 tables of Engineering Manpower Commission data. (JB)