Any scholarship, grant, or
other form of financial assistance, offered by an institution, the terms of
which require the recipient to participate in a program of intercollegiate
athletics at the institution in order to be eligible to receive such
assistance. If a student receives
athletically-related student aid for more than one sport, that student is
counted only once using the following hierarchy: football, basketball, baseball, cross-country/track, all other
sports.
A classification of program
terms and descriptions reflecting the manner in which institutional
instructional program data are organized, collected, and reported. Developed by the U.S. Department of
Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Used to report by field of study.
The numerator used to compute
full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment is the total semester hours (either full-year
or semester) in which all applicable students are enrolled. The denominator is the number of semester
credit hours a full-time student needs to earn in one year. The annual FTE denominator for undergraduate
enrollment is 30, based on the estimate that it takes a full-time student 30
hours per year to complete a 120-hour baccalaureate degree program in 4
years. Graduate students are expected
to take 12 credit hours per semester or 24 credit hours per year.
Includes students who enrolled full-time, were degree/certificate-seeking, and were classified as first-time freshmen at an institution during the fall term. Academic activity of the cohort group is tracked for years to determine persistence rates and graduation rates.
An entering freshman who has
never attended any college. Includes
students enrolled in the fall term who attended college for the first time in
the prior summer term. Also includes
students who entered with advanced standing (college credits earned before
graduation from high school).
At the undergraduate level, a
student enrolled for 12 or more semester credits, or 12 or more quarter
credits, or 24 or more contact hours a week each term.
The percentage of students
from the original fall cohort who completed a degree program within 150 percent
of the normal time. If the degree
program normally takes four years to complete, a student would be counted as a
completer if he/she received a degree within six years.
A course or activity having
no credit applicable toward a degree, diploma, certificate, or other formal
award.
This is the cumulative
headcount of students enrolled during each semester of the year. It is a duplicated headcount; that is, a
student enrolled for the summer, fall, and spring semesters would be counted
three times.
The percentage of students
from the original cohort group who are enrolled during the following year.
A student who is enrolled for
credit, but not pursuing a degree or formal award.
In the unduplicated headcount, a student is counted only once for the full-year time period or for the fall semester. Headcount is unduplicated only within the institution. Consequently, a student who takes courses at two separate institutions would be counted at both institutions. During the time period under consideration, students are assigned to the class level in which they enrolled during their last active semester (freshman/sophomore-lower division, junior/senior-upper division, graduate, and professional).