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2007-2008 COMMON DATA SET
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B.  ENROLLMENT AND PERSISTENCE

B1. Institutional Enrollment - Men and Women.  Provide numbers of students for each of the following categories as of the institution's official fall reporting date or as of October 15, 2007.

 

FULL-TIME

PART-TIME

TOTAL
 

Men

Women

Men

Women

  
Undergraduates          
Degree-seeking, first-time freshmen  3,368  3,115  2  10  6,495
Other first-year, degree-seeking  541  372  14  35  962
All other degree-seeking  15,263  12,339  520  297  28,419
Total degree-seeking  19,172  15,826  536  342  35,876
All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses  309  140  278  212  939
Total undergraduates  19,481  15,966  814  554  36,815
First-professional          
First-time, first-professional students  56  27  10  13  106
All other first-professionals  60  38  0  0  98
Total first-professional  116  65  10  13  204
Graduate          
Degree-seeking, first-time  791  565  14  16  1,386
All other degree-seeking  2,233  1,663  352  318  4,566
All other graduates enrolled in credit courses  14  12  96  159  281
Total graduate  3,038  2,240  462  493  6,233
TOTAL  22,635  18,271  1,286  1,060  43,252

Total all undergraduates:  36,815

Total all graduate and professional students:  6,437

GRAND TOTAL ALL STUDENTS:  43,252

B2. Enrollment by Racial/Ethnic Category. Provide numbers of undergraduate students for each of the following categories as of the institution's official fall reporting date or as of October 15, 2007. Include international students only in the category "Nonresident aliens". Complete the "Total Undergraduate" column only if you cannot provide data for the first two columns.

 

Degree-seeking First-time First-year

Degree-seeking Undergraduates
(include first-time first-year)

Total Undergraduates (both
degree- and non-degree seeking)
Non-resident aliens  242  878  
Black, non-Hispanic  268  1,460  
American Indian or Alaskan Native  6  36  
Asian or Pacific Islander  334  1,941  
Hispanic  317  1,267  
White, non-Hispanic  5,328  30,294  
Race/ethnicity unknown      
Total  6,495  35,876  

 

Persistence

B3. Number of degrees awarded by your institution from July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2007.

Certificate/diploma

 479
Associate degrees

 71
Bachelor's degrees

 9,604
Post-bachelor's certificates

  
Master's degrees

 1,131
Post-master's certificates  
Doctoral degrees

 646
First professional degrees

 18
First professional certificates  

Graduation Rates

The items in this section correspond to data elements collected by IPEDS Web-based Data Collection System's Graduation Rate Survey (GRS). For complete instructions and definitions of data elements, see the IPEDS GRS instructions and glossary on the Web-based 2007 survey.

For Bachelor's or Equivalent Programs

Please provide data for the fall 2001 cohort if available. If fall 2001 cohort data are not available, provide data for the fall 2000 cohort.

Fall 2001 Cohort

Report for the cohort of full-time first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 2001. Include in the cohort those who entered your institution during the summer term preceding fall 2001.

B4. Initial 2001 cohort of first-time, full-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students; total all students:  6,152

B5. Of the initial 2001 cohort, how many did not persist and did not graduate for the following reasons: death, permanent disability, service in the armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government, or official church missions; total allowable exclusions:  7

B6. Final 2001 cohort, after adjusting for allowable exclusions:  6,145
(Subtract question B5 from question B4)

B7. Of the initial 2001 initial cohort, how many completed the program in four years or less (by August 31, 2005):  3,576

B8. Of the initial 2001 cohort, how may completed the program in more than four years but in five years or less (after August 31, 2005 and by August 31, 2006):  1,407

B9. Of the initial 2001 cohort, how many completed the program in more than five years but in six years or less (after August 31, 2006 and by August 31, 2007):  178

B10. Total graduating within six years (sum of questions B7, B8, and B9):  5,161

B11. Six-year graduation rate for 2001 cohort (question B10 divided by question B6):  84.0%

 

Retention Rates

Report for the cohort of all full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 2006 (or the preceding summer term). The initial cohort may be adjusted for students who departed for the following reasons: death, permanent disability, service in the armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government or official church missions. No other adjustments to the initial cohort should be made.

B22. For the cohort of all full-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered your institution as freshmen in fall 2006 (or the preceding summer term), what percentage was enrolled at your institution as of the date your institution calculates it official enrollment in fall 2007?: 93.6%

 
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