Fall 2012 Enrollment Report Highlights:

• Calvin welcomed a FTIAC (First Time in College) class of 977 students and a Transfer class of 108, for an increase of 18 new students over last year.
• Calvin's 2012 fall enrollment, at 4,008, represents an increase of 41 students from last year.
• The retention rate of last years' FTIACS (those returning this fall), came in at 85.5%, a percentage point drop from last year, while the six year graduation rate of the 2006 class of FTIACs is 76.8%, the highest ever.
• The mean High School GPA of the entering class is 3.67, and the median ACT Composite score is 26.6, both substantial increases over previous classes, and the highest ever.
• Roughly four of ten (40.1%) 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 403 students (10.1% of the enrollment) and is the highest in recent history.
• Calvin's U.S. ethnic minority population stands at 474 (11.8% of the student body), the highest percentage ever, and an increase of more than 20 from last year.
• Some of Calvin's fastest growing programs are Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Business, Computer Science, Kinesiology, Music, Philosophy, and Speech Pathology and Audiology.

See the 2012 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.