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B. ENROLLMENT AND PERSISTENCE

B1. Institutional EnrollmentMen and Women Provide numbers of students reported on IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey 2003 as of the institution's official fall reporting date or as of October 15, 2003. Refer to IPEDS EF-1 Part A or IPEDS EF-2 Part A (undergraduates only) survey.

  Full Time Part Time
Men Women Men Women
Undergraduates
Degree-seeking, first-time freshmen 176 363 9 16
Other first-year, degree-seeking 105 187 49 84
All other degree-seeking 483 1,013 133 376
Total degree-seeking 764 1,563 191 476
All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses 1 1 87 164
Total undergraduates 765 1,564 278 640

First-professional
First-time, first-professional students        
All other first-professionals        
Total first-professional        

Graduate
Degree-seeking, first-time 4 7 0 3
All other degree-seeking 2 12 4 26
All other graduates enrolled in credit courses 0 0 4 41
Total graduate 6 19 8 70

Total all undergraduates (IPEDS sum of lines 8 and 22, cols. 15 and 16): 3,247

Total all graduate and professional students (IPEDS sum of lines 14 and 28, cols. 15 and 16): 103

GRAND TOTAL ALL STUDENTS (IPEDS line 29, sum of cols. 15 and 16): 3,350

B2. Enrollment by Racial/Ethnic Category. Provide numbers of degree-seeking undergraduate students reported on IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey 2003 as of the institution's official fall reporting date or as of October 15, 2003.

  Degree-seeking
First-time, First year
Degree-seeking
Undergraduates
Total
Undergraduates
Non-resident aliens 6 52  
Black, non-Hispanic 127 688  
American Indian or Alaskan Native 3 11  
Asian or Pacific Islander 6 27  
Hispanic 9 44  
White, non-Hispanic 399 2,081  
Race/ethnicity unknown IPEDS cols. 13-14 14 91  
Total 564 2,994  

Persistence

B3. Number of degrees awarded by your institution from July 1, 2002, to June 30, 2003.
Certificate/diploma:
Associate degrees: 47
Bachelor's degrees: 471
Post-bachelor's certificates:
Master's degrees: 13
Post-master's certificates:
Doctoral degrees:
First professional degrees:
First professional certificates:

Graduation Rates

The items in this section correspond to data elements formerly collected by IPEDS or currently collected by IPEDS Web-based Data Collection Sytem's Graduation Rate Survey (GRS). For complete instructions and definitions of data elements, see the IPEDS GRS instructions and glossary on the 2003 Web-based survey.

For Bachelor's or Equivalent Programs
Report for the cohort of full-time first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 1997. Include in the cohort those who entered your institution during the summer term preceding fall 1997.

B4. Initial 1997 cohort of first-time, full-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students; total all students: 305

B5. Of the initial 1997 cohort, how many did not persist and did not graduate for the following reasons: deceased, permanently disabled, armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government, or official church missions; total allowable exclusions: 1

B6. Final 1997 cohort, after adjusting for allowable exclusions: (Subtract question B5 from question B4) 304

B7. Of the initial 1997 cohort, how many completed the program in four years or less (by August 31, 2001): 55

B8. Of the initial 1997 cohort, how may completed the program in more than four years but in five years or less (after August 31, 2001 and by August 31, 2002): 66

B9. Of the initial 1997 cohort, how many completed the program in more than five years but in six years or less (after August 31, 2002 and by August 31, 2003): 14

B10. Total graduating within six years (sum of questions B7, B8, and B9): 135

B11. Six-year graduation rate for 1997 cohort (question B10 divided by question B6): 44.4%

Retention Rates

Report for the cohort of all full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 2002 (or the preceding summer term). The initial cohort may be adjusted for students who departed for the following reasons: deceased, permanently disabled, 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 2002 (or the preceding summer term), what percentage was enrolled at your institution as of the date your institution calculates it official enrollment in fall 2003? 68%


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