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).
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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
