Program Level Student Outcomes - Cohort-level Details

The tables below summarize student outcomes for each bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral program.

For bachelor’s programs, outcomes are reported separately for first-time college (FTC) students and transfer students. FTC students are tracked as full-time, fall-entering cohorts to align as closely as possible with outcome measures reported through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Transfer and graduate students are tracked as academic-year cohorts, representing all new entrants in a given academic year.

Terminology:

For brevity and ease of display, the following abbreviations are used in both the summary and detailed cohort tables:

• Cohort Distinct Students (N): The total number of new students in a program for a given cohort..
• 1st-Year Retention Rate (1Y-R): The percentage of students in the cohort who are still enrolled in, or have graduated from, the program they entered by the third term. 
• 2nd-Year Retention Rate (2Y-R) and 3rd-Year Retention Rate (3Y-R): The percentage of students who are still enrolled by the fifth and seventh terms, respectively, or who have graduated.*.
• 2nd-Year Graduation Rate (2Y-G) through 6th-Year Graduation Rate (6Y-G): The percentage of students in the cohort who graduate from the program within 2 to 6 years.* Second- and third-year graduation rates are reported only for master’s programs.

Notes:

All calculations remove allowable exclusions, as defined by the IPEDS Outcome Measures methodology, from the denominators. 

* For undergraduate students, 2-year retention and beyond are based on the program in which the student was enrolled at the fourth-term census. The fourth term serves as an anchor for subsequent yearly calculations, providing consistency when students change majors. Students who are no longer enrolled at the institution are anchored to the most recent program they declared. Master’s and doctoral students are tracked from their entering program.