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Calvin College Common Data Set 2008-2009

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B. ENROLLMENT AND PERSISTENCE 

B1. Institutional Enrollment--Men and Women Provide numbers of students for each of the following categories as of the institution's official fall reporting date or as of October 15, 2008.
 
 
 
FULL-TIME 
PART-TIME 
 
Men
Women
Men
Women
Undergraduates
Degree-seeking, first-time freshmen 
436
500
0
0
Other first-year, degree-seeking 
37
53
2
0
All other degree-seeking 
1,327
1,590
41
35
Total degree-seeking 
1,800
2,143

43

35

All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses 
7
7
26
43
Total undergraduates 
1,807
2,150
69
78
First-professional 
First-time, first-professional students 
0
0
0
0
All other first-professionals 
0
0
0
0
Total first-professional 
0
0
0
0
Graduate   
Degree-seeking, first-time 
0
2
1
1
All other degree-seeking 
1
4
5
16
All other graduates enrolled in credit courses 
2
2
12
21
Total graduate 
3
8
18
38

Total all undergraduates: 4,104

Total all graduate and professional students:67

Grand total of all students: 4,171


B2. Enrollment by Racial/Ethnic Category. Provide numbers of undergraduate students for each of the following categories as of the institution's official fall reporting date or as of October 15, 2008. Include international students only in the category "Nonresident aliens." Complete the “Total Undergraduates” column only if you cannot provide data for the first two columns.
 
Degree-seeking First-time First year
Degree-seeking Undergraduates (include first-time First year)
Total Undergraduates (both degree- and non-degree-seeking)
Non-resident aliens
77
300
308
Black, non-Hispanic
20
62
67
American Indian or
Alaskan Native
5
11
11
Asian or Pacific Islander
35
124
127
Hispanic
13
57
60
White, non-Hispanic
751
3,325
3,393
Race/ethnicity unknown
35
135
138
Total
936
4,014
4,104



Persistence
B3. Number of degrees awarded by your institution from July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008.
Certificate/diploma  _____   
Associate degrees  _____ 
Bachelor's degrees  823
Postbachelor's certificates  _____ 
Master's degrees  15
Post-master's certificates  _____ 
Doctoral degrees  _____ 
First professional degrees  _____ 
First professional certificates  _____ 

Graduation Rates

The items in this section correspond to data elements formerly collected by IPEDS or currently collected by the IPEDS Web-based Data Collection System's Graduation Rate Survey (GRS). For complete instructions and definitions of data elements, see the IPEDS GRS instructions and glossary on the 2008 Web-based survey..

For Bachelor's or Equivalent Programs

Report for the cohort of full-time first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 2002. Include in the cohort those who entered your institution during the summer term preceding fall 2002.

B4. Initial 2002 cohort of first-time, full-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students; total all students: __1,049 __

B5. Of the initial 2002 cohort, how many did not persist and did not graduate for the following reasons: deceased, permanently disabled, armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government, or official church missions; total allowable exclusions: __1___

B6. Final 2002 cohort, after adjusting for allowable exclusions: ____1,048___

(Subtract question B5 from question B4)

B7. Of the initial 2002 initial cohort, how many completed the program in four years or less (by August 31, 2006): _587__

B8. Of the initial 2002 cohort, how may completed the program in more than four years but in five years or less (after August 31, 2006 and by August 31, 2007): _188 _

B9.Of the initial 2002 cohort, how many completed the program in more than five years but in six years or less (after August 31, 2007 and by August 31, 2008): _16__

B10. Total graduating within six years (sum of questions B7, B8, and B9): _ 791__

B11. Six-year graduation rate for 2002 cohort (question B10 divided by question B6): _75.5%_


Retention Rates

Report for the cohort of all full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 2007 (or the preceding summer term). The initial cohort may be adjusted for students who departed for the following reasons: deceased, permanently disabled, armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government or official church missions. No other adjustments to the initial cohort should be made.

B22.

For the cohort of all full-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered your institution as freshmen in fall 2007 (or the preceding summer term), what percentage was enrolled at your institution as of the date your institution calculates it official enrollment in fall 2008? _85.9%_

 

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