Fall 2011 Enrollment Report Highlights:

• Calvin welcomed a FTIAC (First Time in College) class of 961 students and a Transfer class of 106, for an increase of 32 from last year.
• Calvin's 2011 fall enrollment, at 3,967, represents a decrease of 24 students from last year.
• The retention rate of last years' FTIACS (those returning this fall), came in at 86.5%, a half percentage point drop from last year, while the six year graduation rate of the 2005 class of FTIACs is 76.4%, the second highest ever.
• The mean High School GPA of the entering class is 3.6, and the median ACT Composite score is 25.8.
• Roughly three in seven (42.5%) Calvin students are members of the Christian Reformed Church.
• Calvin students come from 46 different states, six Canadian provinces and over 50 other foreign countries. The international student population comes in at 376 students (9.5% of the enrollment) and is the highest in recent history.
• Calvin's U.S. ethnic minority population stands at 456 (11.5% of the student body), the highest percentage ever, and an increase of nearly 20% from last year.
• Some of Calvin's fastest growing programs are Biology, Biochemistry, Environmental Studies, Kinesiology, International Relations, Spanish, and Speech Pathology and Audiology.

See the 2011 Fall Day 10 Report for details.

The Office of Institutional and Enrollment Research at Calvin carries out research, data analysis, and reporting to support institutional decision-making.