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, 2003. 

FULL-TIME

 PART-TIME
Men Women Men Women
Undergraduates
   Degree-seeking, first-time freshmen 2,425   2,938 21 44
   Other first-year, degree-seeking 913 915 47 55
   All other degree-seeking 7,935 8,450 815 926
      Total degree-seeking 11,273 12,303 883 1,025
   All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses 58 72 192 350
      Total undergraduates 11,331 12,375 1,075 1,375
First-professional
   First-time, first-professional students 166 196 5 4
   All other first-professionals 272 395 9 4
      Total first-professional 438 591 14 8
Graduate
   Degree-seeking, first-time 445 470 69 83
   All other degree-seeking 1,130 1,001 496 633
   All other graduates enrolled in credit courses 23 32 127 218
      Total graduate 1,598 1,503 692 934

Total all undergraduates:  26,156 

Total all graduate and professional students:    5,778 

GRAND TOTAL ALL STUDENTS:    31,934 

 

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, 2002.  Complete the "Total Undergraduates" 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)
Nonresident aliens 67 538  
Black, non-Hispanic 463 2,318  
American Indian or Alaskan Native 24 87  
Asian or Pacific Islander 147 774  
Hispanic 138 597  
White, non-Hispanic 4,453 20,556  
Race/ethnicity unknown 136 614  
Total  5,428 25,484  

Persistence
B3.     Number of degrees awarded by your institution from July 1, 2001, to June 30, 2002.

Certificate/diploma N/A
Associate degrees N/A
Bachelor's degrees 4,429
Postbachelor's certificates N/A
Master's degrees 981
Post-master's certificates 22
Doctoral degrees 211
First professional degrees 263
First professional certificates N/A

Graduation Rates
The items in this section corresponds to data elements formerly collected by the 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 2002 web-based survey.  

Note:  1997 Cohort data should be considered preliminary until the IPEDS Graduation Rate Survey is submitted in April 2004.

For Bachelor's or Equivalent Programs

Please provide data for the fall 1997 cohort if available.  If fall 1997 cohort data are not available, provide data for the  hall 1996 cohort.

Report for the cohort of full-time first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 1996.  Include in the cohort those who entered your institution during the summer term preceding fall 1996.

B4.  Initial 1996 cohort of full-time first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students; total all students: 
  3,992 

B5.   Of the initial 1996 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: 
  0  

B6.   Final 1996 cohort, after adjusting for allowable exclusions:  3,992 
(Subtract question B5 from question B4)

B7. Of the initial 1996 cohort, how many completed the program in four years or less (by August 31, 2000):   923  

B8.  Of the initial 1996 cohort, how many completed the program in more than four years but in five years or less (after August 31, 2000 and by August 31, 2001):  1,058 

B9. Of the initial 1996 cohort, how many completed the program in more than five years but in six years or less (after August 31, 2001 and by August 31, 2002):  336 

B10.   Total graduating within six years (sum of questions B7, B8, and B9):   2,317 

B11.  Six-year graduation rate for 1996 cohort (question B10 divided by question B6): 58.0% 

 

 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 full-time first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students; total all students: 
  4,443 

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: 
  0  

B6.   Final 1997 cohort, after adjusting for allowable exclusions:  4,443
(Subtract question B5 from question B4)

B7. Of the initial 1997 cohort, how many completed the program in four years or less (by August 31, 2001):   1,023

B8.  Of the initial 1997 cohort, how many completed the program in more than four years but in five years or less (after August 31, 2001 and by August 31, 2002):  1,161 

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):  369 

B10.   Total graduating within six years (sum of questions B7, B8, and B9):   2,553 

B11.  Six-year graduation rate for 1997 cohort (question B10 divided by question B6): 57.5% 


 

Retention Rates
Report for the cohort of all full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 2001 (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 2001 (or the preceding summer term), what percentage was enrolled at your institution as of the date your institution calculates its official enrollment in fall 2002?
  83.8%