Display 0751:  Learning-Support and College-Ready Freshmen,
                         First-Time, Full-Time, Retained to 2nd Year

Retention rates are calculated for First-Time, Full-Time freshmen students enrolled in the fall term ("cohort year") who return the following fall.  The University System of Georgia (USG) tracks separately the return rates of college-ready students and learning-support students (who are admitted only to engage in remedial work).  These two cohorts are disaggregated for comparisons because only 4 system institutions (Columbus, Augusta, Armstrong, and SSU) admit non-college ready students (whose retention & college success rates differ markedly from those of college-ready students. Since USG compares these rates between institutions, the Chancellor and his staff have determined that rates should be compared for college-ready students across the system.  [Rates for the 2005 cohort are still under review by the system office owing to data irregularities system-wide.] For aggregate rates for all first-time, full-time freshmen combined, please see Display 0750.
Learning Support & Non-LS First-Time, Full-Time Freshmen Retained to 2nd Year   (Included are freshmen matriculating summer or fall terms of calendar year.)                                   5-Year Cohort Year ---> 1993  1994  1995  1996  1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004 2005 Average Learning Support 57% 58% 52% 65% 52% 61% 68% 64% 70% 71% 71% 70% 74% 71% Cohort # 521 481 465 357 307 200 133 180 132 118 188 143 284 173 College-Ready 67% 59% 58% 64% 60% 73% 70% 78% 79% 81% 71% 70% 72% 75% Cohort # 239 229 211 120 148 121 148 190 308 378 419 425 468 400