Doctoral and Masters Program Graduation Data

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Doctoral and Masters Program Graduation Data

• Jennifer Brown, OIRP
• Data from OIRP Enrollment and Degrees Conferred
  Snapshot Files
• March 5, 2008

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Doctoral Programs
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Data Parameters

• Cohorts entering 1993 1999
• Nine Year graduation data
• Nursing data on entrants from 1996-1999
• 1993-1999, 402 Doctoral students were accepted,
  the total graduating in nine years was 201

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Entering Cohorts, Number of Graduates
1993-1999 by program
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Entering Cohorts, Number of Graduates
1993-1999 by program
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Looking the Other Way

• This means that five of the 8 programs graduate
  less than half of the students they accept within
  nine years of beginning the program
• Two of these do not graduate two thirds or more
  of those they accept

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Masters Programs

• We have data for programs in CLA, CSM, GCE
• We are working on data for the other
  programs/colleges
• Entering cohorts 1998 2002
• Data on number graduating is the number within
  four years

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CLA Masters Programs
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CSM Masters Programs
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GCE Masters Programs
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Number of Masters Students Entering Between 1998
and 2002

• CLA 454
• CSM 318
• GCE - 1251

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Graduation Percentage by College

• CLA (6 programs) 57
• CSM (6 programs) 63
• GCE (10 programs) 67

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Range of Masters Four Year Graduation Rates for
Programs

• The numbers of students entering programs over
  the period 98-02 range from 525 to 13
• The numbers graduating in four years range from
  375 to 6
• The percentage of students graduating within four
  years ranges from 77 to 24