This report summarizes the academic advancement and graduation rates of transfer students who entered in the fall semesters of 1990 1997. Students are tracked at the beginning of subsequent fall semesters and reported as status after one year, two years, etc. The lower-level rate for the 1992 cohort is 65.2 percent as compared to 65.9 for the 1991 cohort. Persistence Rates by College Chart one and tables 2-9 show graduation and persistence rates by college.
Persistence is the number of students who have completed or are still enrolled.
Chart one compares four-year persistence rates of new freshmen and new transfers by college. The 1993 cohort is used for this comparison. In the School of Design more than 80 percent persisted. As the chart shows, the persistence rate for all three groups is similar in many colleges.