The relationships among students' goals, demographic variables, and attrition at Delta Community College (Michigan) were investigated. A total of 600 (out of a random sample of 1,000) fall 1976 students credit courses agreed to participate in the study and identified their goals in attending the college. In the winter 1977 semester, 493 returning and non-returning (n=200) students in the sample answered follow-up questionnaires on reactions to selected college services, goal changes since fall, reasons for returning or not returning, and suggestions for changes at the college. Over 90% of both groups indicated the college met their needs. Of students whose fall goals were to complete degrees or certificates, 82% returned, while only 54% of those with other goals returned. Only 29% of those returning changed their goals between fall and winter, while 55% of those not returning did so. Demographic findings indicated: evening students were twice as likely to drop-out as day students (52 to 27%); 40% with less than 10 credit hours and 80% with from 10-59 credit hours returned; younger students were significantly more likely to return than older students; and ethnic status was not related to attrition. Goal accomplishment, financial, family/personal, or transportation problems, and job hour changes were cited by at least 20% of non-returners as reasons for leaving. Eighty-six percent of non-returners hoped to return to the college in the future. (TR)