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  Common Data Set 2003-2004

 

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, 2003.

 
FULL-TIME
PART-TIME
 
Men
Women
Men
Women
Undergraduates          
Degree-seeking, first-time freshmen
560
459
 
0
0
Other first-year, degree-seeking
2
1
 
0
0
All other degree-seeking
1783
1264
 
28
12
Total degree-seeking
2345
1724
 
28
12
All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses
0
1
 
0
2
Total undergraduates
2345
1725
 
28
14
First-professional          
First-time, first-professional students          
All other first-professionals          
Total first-professional          
Graduate          
Degree-seeking, first-time
1246
529
 
5
1
All other degree-seeking
2945
1192
 
107
48
All other graduates enrolled in credit courses
12
4
 
115
24
Total graduate
4203
1725
 
227
73

Total all undergraduates: 4112

Total all graduate and professional students: 6228

GRAND TOTAL ALL STUDENTS: 10,340

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, 2003 . Include international students only in the category "Nonresident aliens." Complete the "Total Undergraduate" 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)
Nonresident aliens
69
330
330
Black, non-Hispanic
62
251
251
American Indian or Alaskan Native
8
68
68
Asian or Pacific Islander
285
1157
1157
Hispanic
125
485
485
White, non-Hispanic
368
1430
1431
Race/ethnicity unknown
102
388
390
Total
1019
4109
4112

Persistence

B3. Number of degrees awarded by your institution from July 1, 2002 , to June 30, 2003 .

Certificate/diploma    ___
Associate degrees  ___
Bachelor's degrees  
1281
Postbachelor's certificates  ___
Master's degrees  
1537
Post-master's certificates  ___
Doctoral degrees  
440
First professional degrees  ___
First professional certificates  ___

Graduation Rates

For Bachelor's or Equivalent Programs

Fall 1997 Cohort
Report for the cohort of full-time first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 1997. Include in the cohort those who entered your institution during the summer term preceding fall 1997.

B4. Initial 1997 cohort of first-time, full-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students; total all students: 1066

B5. Of the initial 1997 cohort, how many did not persist and did not graduate for the following reasons: death, permanent disability, service in the armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government, or official church missions; total allowable exclusions: 4

B6. Final 1997 cohort, after adjusting for allowable exclusions: 1062
(Subtract question B5 from question B4)

B7. Of the initial 1997 cohort, how many completed the program in four years or less (by August 31, 2001): 861

B8. Of the initial 1997 cohort, how many completed the program in more than four years but in five years or less (after August 31, 2001 and by August 31, 2002): 93

B9. Of the initial 1997 cohort, how many completed the program in more than five years but in six years or less (after August 31, 2002 and by August 31, 2003): 28

B10. Total graduating within six years (sum of questions B7, B8, and B9): 982

B11. Six-year graduation rate for 1997 cohort (question B10 divided by question B6): 92%

Note: Questions B12 - B21 have been omitted. They apply to Two-Year Institutions and not MIT.

Retention Rates
Report for the cohort of all full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 2002 (or the preceding summer term). The initial cohort may be adjusted for students who departed for the following reasons: death, permanent disability, service in the 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 2002 (or the preceding summer term), what percentage was enrolled at your institution as of the date your institution calculates its official enrollment in fall 2003? 98%

 

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