Common Data Set (CDS): Enrollment and Persistence

Data are as of census and are presented by Fall terms

Includes:

• Degree-seeking undergraduates enrolled in credit courses

Excludes:

• Graduates

Data are the degrees awarded presented by fiscal year.

Includes:

• Bachelor's, Postbachelor's certificates, Master's, Doctoral - research/scholarship, Doctoral - professional practice.

The visualization offers a view of the number of degrees awarded from July 1 to June 30 (fiscal year)

Data are the number of completions presented by entering cohort year.

Includes: 

• Distinctions between recipients of a Federal Pell Grant, Recipients of a subsidized Stafford Loan who did not receive a Pell Grant, and students who did not receive either a Pell Grant or a subsidixzed Stafford loan. 
• Time for completion.

The visualization offers a view of the number of completions by time duration and a six-year graduation rate.

• The initial cohort may be adjusted for students who departed for the following reasons: death, permanent disability, service in the army.
• After the 2008-2009 CDS Report, first-professional students were included as graduate students.

Data are from cohorts of full-time, first-time, degree-seeking students who entered in fall term.

The visualization offers a view of the percentage of the cohort of full-time. first-time, degree-seeking students who enter in fall and re-enrolled the following fall. 

• After the 2008-2009 CDS Report, first-professional students were included as Graduate students.
• The initial cohort may be adjusted for students who departed for the following reasons: death, permanent disability, service in the armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government, and official church missions.