efd: Fall Enrollment: EFD
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Description Total Entering Class Retention Rate Exclusions Student-to-Faculty Ratio Reporting More Info

This file contains data on the total entering class, first-year retention rates and the student-to-faculty ratio.

The total entering class is the number of incoming students (students enrolling for the first time in a postsecondary institution versus students transferring in from another postsecondary institution) at an institution.

This measure permits the calculation of the graduation rate cohort as a proportion of the total entering student body.

The first-year retention rate data measure the percentage of first-year students who had persisted in or completed their educational program a year later (began in fall of the previous year and persisted or completed in fall of the current year).

Institutions can exclude the number of students from the first-time cohort who left the institution for any of the following reasons:

died or were totally and permanently disabled;
to serve in the armed forces (including those called to active duty);
to serve with a foreign aid service of the Federal Government (e.g. Peace Corps);
to serve on official church missions.

Student-to-faculty ratio is defined as total FTE students (not in graduate or professional programs) divided by total FTE instructional staff (not teaching in graduate or professional programs).

All data on this file is applicable only to institutions with undergraduate students. Institutions with traditional academic year calendar systems (semester, quarter, trimester or 4-1-4) report their enrollment as of October 15 or the official fall reporting date of the institution (academic year). Institutions with calendar systems that differ by program or allow continuous enrollment report students that are enrolled at any time between August 1 and October 31 (program year). Only academic year institutions report entering class data. Institutions with short programs (less-than-one-year) will not have data on retention.

Beginning with the fall 2016 data, instititions can include first-time bachelor’s-seeking (or equivalent) study abroad students who were excluded from the first-time cohort but who have re-enrolled at the institution their second year.

IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey Components

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