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Description Total Entering Class Retention Rate Exclusions Student-to-Faculty Ratio Reporting Glossary 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.

Credit

Recognition of attendance or performance in an instructional activity (course or program) that can be applied by a recipient toward the requirements for a degree, diploma, certificate, or other formal award.

Exclusions

Students from the cohort or subcohort who left the institution for any of the following reasons: died or were totally and permanently disabled; to serve in the armed forces; to serve with a foreign aid service of the Federal Government, such as the Peace Corps; or to serve on official church missions.

First-time student (undergraduate)

A student who has no prior postsecondary experience (except as noted below) attending any institution for the first time at the undergraduate level. This includes students enrolled in academic or occupational programs. It also includes students enrolled in the fall term who attended college for the first time in the prior summer term, and students who entered with advanced standing (college credits earned before graduation from high school).

Full-time adjusted cohort from prior year

Full-time cohort from prior year minus number of exclusions plus the number of Inclusions.

Full-time cohort

Includes full-time first-time degree/certificate seeking students enrolled at the institution in the fall of the prior year (including those enrolled for the first time the preceding summer term and those whose intent was not known upon entry to the institution). The full-time cohort for 4-year institutions should only include bachelor degree-seeking students.

The student status (full- or part-time) is based on the prior year's fall status, even if this has changed by the current year (e.g., if a student has gone from part-time to full-time, they will be reported as part of the part-time cohort).

Full-time undergraduate

A student enrolled for 12 or more semester credits , or 12 or more quarter credits, or 24 or more contact hours a week each term.

Graduate or first-professional students

Students enrolled in graduate or professional programs such as medicine, law, veterinary, dentistry, social work, or public health, in which faculty teach virtually only graduate-level students (often referred to as "stand-alone" or "independent" programs) are excluded from both full-time and part-time counts.

Inclusions

The number of first-time degree seeking study abroad students who were excluded from the prior year first-time full-time cohort but who have re-enrolled at the institution their second year.

Instructional staff

Include employees whose primary function/occupational activity is primarily instruction or instruction/research/public service and are not medical school employees.

Part-time cohort

Includes part-time first-time degree/certificate seeking students enrolled at the institution in the fall of the prior year (including those enrolled for the first time the preceding summer term and those whose intent was not known upon entry to the institution). The part-time cohort for 4-year institutions should only include bachelor degree-seeking students.

The student status (full- or part-time) should be based on the prior year's fall status, even if this has changed by the current year (e.g., if a student has gone from part-time to full-time, report them as part of the part-time cohort).

Retention rate

The percent of the (fall cohort from the prior year minus exclusions from the fall cohort) that re-enrolled at the institution as either full- or part-time in the current year

Student-to-faculty ratio

Total FTE students not in graduate or professional programs divided by total FTE instructional staff not teaching in graduate or professional programs.

Study abroad

Arrangement by which a student completes part of the college program studying in another country. Can be at a campus abroad or through a cooperative agreement with some other U.S. college or an institution of another country.

Total entering students at the undergraduate level [UGENTERN]

In addition to the students in the Graduation Rate Survey (GRS) cohort, this would include:

part-time undergraduate students;
non-degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates;
students who initially attended the prior summer term and returned again in the fall (other than those included in the GRS cohort);
students transferring into the institution at any undergraduate level for the first time.

Total FTE instructional staff

Equal to the number of full-time instructional staff to 1/3 the number of part-time instructional staff (Human Resource Component, EAP section).

Total FTE students

Equal to the number of full-time students plus 1/3 the number of part-time students (Fall enrollment component).

Undergraduate

A student enrolled in a 4- or 5-year bachelor's degree program, an associate's degree program, or a vocational or technical program below the baccalaureate.

IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey Components

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