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, 2004. 

FULL-TIME

 PART-TIME
Men Women Men Women
Undergraduates
   Degree-seeking, first-time freshmen 2,597  3,099 2 2
   Other first-year, degree-seeking 945 989 25 34
   All other degree-seeking 8,063 8,544 736 813
      Total degree-seeking 11,605 12,632 763 849
   All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses 61 65 163 249
      Total undergraduates 11,666 12,697 926 1,098
First-professional
   First-time, first-professional students 121 197 7 4
   All other first-professionals 289 414 9 9
      Total first-professional 410 611 16 13
Graduate
   Degree-seeking, first-time 474 434 59 96
   All other degree-seeking 1,223 1,056 454 599
   All other graduates enrolled in credit courses 31 39 137 202
      Total graduate 1,728 1,529 650 897

Total all undergraduates:  26,387 

Total all graduate and professional students:  5,854 

GRAND TOTAL ALL STUDENTS:   32,241 

 

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, 2004. Include international students only in the category "Nonresident aliens".  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 63 517  
Black, non-Hispanic 501 2,294  
American Indian or Alaskan Native 29 98  
Asian or Pacific Islander 143 738  
Hispanic 161 640  
White, non-Hispanic 4,613 20,869  
Race/ethnicity unknown 190 693  
Total 5,700 25,849  

Persistence
B3.     Number of degrees awarded by your institution from July 1, 2003, to June 30, 2004.

Certificate/diploma N/A
Associate degrees N/A
Bachelor's degrees 4,312
Postbachelor's certificates N/A
Master's degrees 1,046
Post-master's certificates 27
Doctoral degrees 240
First professional degrees 299
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 2004 web-based survey.  

Note:  1998 Cohort data should be considered preliminary until the IPEDS Graduation Rate Survey is submitted in April 2005.

For Bachelor's or Equivalent Programs

Please provide data for the fall 1998 cohort if available.  If fall 1998 cohort data are not available, provide data for the  fall 1997 cohort.

Fall 1997 Cohort

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: death, permanent disability, or service in the 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, 2000):   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% 

Fall 1998 Cohort

Report for the cohort of full-time first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 1998.  Include in the cohort those who entered your institution during the summer term preceding fall 1998.

B4.  Initial 1998 cohort of full-time first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students; total all students: 
 5,066  

B5.   Of the initial 1998 cohort, how many did not persist and did not graduate for the following reasons: death, permanent disability, or service in the armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government, or official church missions; total allowable exclusions: 
 0  

B6.   Final 1998 cohort, after adjusting for allowable exclusions: 5,066 
(Subtract question B5 from question B4)

B7. Of the initial 1998 cohort, how many completed the program in four years or less (by August 31, 2002):   1,286

B8.  Of the initial 1998 cohort, how many completed the program in more than four years but in five years or less (after August 31, 2002 and by August 31, 2003):  1,269 

B9. Of the initial 1998 cohort, how many completed the program in more than five years but in six years or less (after August 31, 2003 and by August 31, 2004):  359 

B10.   Total graduating within six years (sum of questions B7, B8, and B9):  2,914  

B11.  Six-year graduation rate for 1998 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 2003 (or the preceding summer term).  The initial cohort may be adjusted for students who departed for the following reasons: death, permanent disability, or 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 2003 (or the preceding summer term), what percentage was enrolled at your institution as of the date your institution calculates its official enrollment in fall 2004?
  85.1%