Retention Rates

The cohort is comprised of those degree-seeking students, beginners or transfers, who are new to an IU campus in the fall, or those who began in the previous summer sessions and re-enrolled in the fall. In order to recognize the increasing population of high school students who begin taking college courses in high school, those students have been included in the cohort. Previously these students were coded as non-degree seeking students, and when they arrived on campus after graduating from high school, they were coded as returning students, excluding them from the cohort. This cohort definition conforms to the standards required by various external groups for reporting purposes. Secondly, the federal government further refined their cohort definition to include students who were enrolled in any summer session prior to the fall semester. A student's "home campus" is defined by his or her first fall semester enrollment regardless of intercampus transfer. Retention is defined as re-enrollment or receipt of a degree.

Retention rates have been restated for fall 96 and fall 97 to comply with the new cohort definition.

Persistence to the Second Year - Indiana University

	F93	F94	F95	F96	F97	F98	F99
Bloomington	86.2%	84.1%	85.1%	87.0%	86.8%	86.1%	86.9%
Indianapolis	56.8%	56.8%	58.1%	56.5%	56.8%	56.8%	55.4%
East	52.1%	48.4%	48.3%	53.8%	54.4%	48.4%	52.5%
Kokomo	50.4%	46.1%	49.7%	49.5%	51.7%	50.3%	57.3%
Northwest	58.2%	60.8%	56.9%	56.1%	52.3%	61.5%	54.2%
South Bend	57.6%	56.7%	54.2%	56.1%	60.7%	58.8%	60.3%
Southeast	54.5%	53.5%	57.8%	60.8%	60.4%	56.8%	60.2%
Fort Wayne	56.7%	54.5%	56.8%	54.8%	56.6%	57.7%	57.1%
Total Indiana University	68.1%	67.3%	67.5%	68.2%	68.7%	68.6%	68.9%

*To provide a manageable view of the data, the earliest cohorts are aggregated.
SOURCE: Student Information and Fiscal Services
G2601B						Nov-00


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