Newsletter 1998-09-25

Fall 1998 Student Retention Analysis Prepared by the Institutional Research Office 9/22/98 In the Fall of 1997, Stetson enrolled 507 new, first-time-in-college students. Eighty-three percent (n=419) of these students re-enrolled for classes in the Fall of 1998. As illustrated in Table 1., this number represents an increase in student retention over recent years. Table 2. describes the characteristics of the 1997 new students who returned in Fall 1998. Finally, non-returners did not do as well academically in their first year as those who returned (Table 3). If you have any questions about this report, please contact the Institutional Research Office at 822-7255 or [email protected]. Table 1. Percent of New Students Returnin g for Second Year Year 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 Percent of new students returning for year 2 80% 75% 76% 74% 78% 83% Table 2. Characteristics of Returning Students (Fall 1997 new students) Table 3. Cumulative GPA of returners and non-returners (Fall 1997 new students) Mean St. Dev. Returners 2.8 .67 Non-Returners 2.1 1.03