Display 0755:  Graduation Rate; SSU '93 Frosh (Details)

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Initial SSU Cohort Black Minority Male Female Total
Total full-time, degree seeking undergraduates 1471 113 645 939 1584
First-time, full-time degree-seeking undergraduates 743 17 369 391 760
Of line #2, those seeking other than bachelor's degree 186 4 95 95 190
Of line #2, those seeking bachelor's degree at entry 557 13 274 296 570
Intended (L.4) completers of bachelor's degree, total 110 1 31 80 111
Completers within 4 years 37 0 12 25 37
Completers within 5 years 55 1 15 41 56
Completers within 6 years 18 0 4 14 18
Non-completers still enrolled 39 0 17 22 39
Completers (line 5) within 150% of normal time 110 1 31 80 111
Non-completers transferring out (in 150% normal time) 144 1 59 86 145
Transfers (line 11) to 2-year institutions 53 1 25 29 54
Transfers (line 11) to 4-year institutions 91 0 34 57 91
Transfers (line 11) returning to SSU 12 0 4 8 12
Non-bachelor intending (L.3) completers of bachelor's 30 0 9 21 30
Non-bachelor intending (L.3) completers in 4 yrs 10 0 2 8 10
Non-bachelor intending (L.3) completers in 5 yrs 16 0 6 10 16
Non-bachelor intending (L.3) completers in 6 yrs 4 0 1 3 4
Non-bachelor intending (L.3) still enrolled 10 0 4 6 10
Non-bachelor intending completers within 150% norm time 30 0 9 21 30
Non-bachelor intending transfer out (in 150% normal time) 51 1 21 31 52
Non-bachelor intending transfer to 2-yr institution 9 1 5 5 10
Non-bachelor intending transfer to 4-yr institution 42 0 16 26 42
Degree-seekers (line 2), in football with athletic aid 35 0 35 0 35
Football players (L.25) completing bachelor's degree 11 0 11 0 11
Football players (L.25) completing in 4 yrs 7 0 7 0 7
Football players (L.25) completing in 5 yrs 3 0 3 0 3
Football players (L.25) completing in 6 yrs 1 0 1 0 1
Football players (L.25) still enrolled 1 0 1 0 1
Degree-seekers (line 2), in other sports with athletic aid 15 2 14 3 17
Other sport players (L 31) completing bachelor's degree 9 1 7 3 10
Other sport players (L 31) completing in 4 years 4 1 3 2 5
Other sport players (L 31) completing in 5 years 4 0 3 1 4
Other sport players (L 31) completingin 6 years 1 0 1 0 1
Other sport players (L 31) still enrolled 1 0 1 0 1
Completion Rates:
Total first-time, full-time, degree seeking frosh 760
Total completers of bachelor's degrees in 6 years 141
% total students completing bachelors degree in 6 yrs. 18.6%
Total athletes with athletically-related student aid 39
Total athletes with aid completing bachelor's in 6 yrs 21
% total athletes with aid completing bachelor's in 6 yrs 53.8%
Allowed Exceptions:  (The DOE allows reducing the denominator by a number that would acount
for students known to have met the following fates.  SSU, however, does not track this information.)
     deceased
     permanently disabled
     serving in armed forces
     serving in foreign aid for US government
     serving on official church missions
Graduation Rate Methodology:  Nationally, the procedure for calculting graduation rates has been standardized for reporting purposes by the Federal Department of Education and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.  The procedure requires identifying a cohort of entering first-time, full-time, degree-intending freshmen, and tracking them over six years to determine the number who ultimately are graduated from the same institution. The calculation is made for all students and for student-athletes, by sport.  The result, known as the "six year gradaution rate" is considered reasonable and comparable across institutions by some analysts.  It should be noted, however, that there are several important limitations to the construct.  The calculation, by its very nature, does not treat non-traditional part-time or transfer students.  Furthermore, the calculation does not distinguish between students who are fully prepared for college-level work at point of entry and those who are not (i.e.: remedial students).  Therefore, the calculation does, in the view of other analysts, seriously  under-represent the effectiveness of institutions that accept under-prepared students, transfer students, and part-time students in larger numbers.   Specifically, if an institution allows a large percentage of under-prepared and part-time students to matriculate as freshmen and then requires considerable remedial work from them, their  graduation date likely will be correspondingly delayed beyond the time when they might be included for the graduation rate calculation.  In this way some very effective institutions might appear less effective on a comparative basis.
Findings:  At Savannah State 18.6% of the first-time, full-time freshmen entering the University in 1993 completed their degrees within six years.  For athletes with financial aid, this graduation rate rises to 53.8%.   But it must be remembered that fully 55% of SSU's entering freshman class for 1993 were not fully prepared for college-level work and were required to engage in various types of remedial work.

Source:  Abstracted from IPEDS GRS Survey, Feb, 2000
SSU Office of Institutional Research & Planning
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