Common Data Set - Enrollment and Persistence

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Enrollment and Persistence

Institutional Enrollment - Men and Women · Enrollment by Racial/Ethnic Category· Persistence
Graduation Rates · Retention Rates

B1. Institutional Enrollment - Men and Women. The number of students for each of the following categories reflect the enrollments as of Northwestern's 14th class day (official census date).

	FULL-TIME		PART-TIME
	Men	Women	Men	Women
Undergraduates
Degree-seeking, first-time freshmen	712	1,085	53	127
Other first-year, degree-seeking	397	582	89	335
All other degree-seeking	1,522	2,644	363	1,332
Total degree-seeking	2,631	4,311	505	1,794
All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses	5	3	57	108
Total undergraduates	2,636	4,314	562	1,902
Graduate
Degree-seeking, first-time	34	47	28	94
All other degree-seeking	55	117	101	411
All other graduates enrolled in credit courses	6	14	38	187
Total graduate	95	178	167	692

Total All Undergraduates: 9,414
Total All Graduates: 1,132
GRAND TOTAL, ALL STUDENTS: 10,546

B2. Enrollment by Racial/Ethnic Category.

	Degree-Seeking First-time First-year	Degree-Seeking Undergraduates (including first-time first-year)
Nonresident aliens	6	38
Black, non-hispanic	746	2,935
American Indian or Alaskan Native	41	178
Asian or Pacific Islander	9	80
Hispanic	40	167
White, non-Hispanic	1,016	5,389
Race/ethnicity unknown	119	454
Total	1,977	9,241

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

Certificate/diploma	0
Associate Degrees	303
Bachelor's Degrees	1,021
Postbachelor's Certificates	0
Master's Degrees	212
Post-Master's Certificates	20
Doctoral Degrees	0
First Professional Degrees	0
First Professional Certificates	0

Graduation Rates
The items in this section correspond to data elements collected by the IPEDS Web-based Data Collection System's Graduation Rate Survey (GRS).

For Bachelor's or Equivalent Programs

Fall 1998 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 1998 cohort of first-time, full-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students; total all students:	1,263
B5. Of the initial 1998 cohort, how many did not persist and did not graduate for the following reasons: death, permanent disability, service in the armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government, or official church missions; total allowable exclusions	5
B6. Final 1998 cohort, after adjusting for allowable exclusions:	1,258
B7. Of the initial 1998 cohort, how many completed the program in four years or less (by August 31, 2002):	176
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):	176
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, 2003 and by August 31, 2004):	56
B10. Total graduating within six years:	408
B11. Six-year graduation rate for 1998 cohort:	32.43%

Retention Rates
Report for the cohort of all full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 2002 (or the preceding summer term). The initial cohort may be adjusted for students who departed for the following reasons: death, permanent disability, services 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 your institution calculates its official enrollment in fall 2004?

68.02%

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