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  Common Data Set 2004-2005

 

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, 2004.

 
FULL-TIME
 
PART-TIME
 
Men
Women
 
Men
Women
Undergraduates          
Degree-seeking, first-time freshmen
620
457
 
0
0
Other first-year, degree-seeking
1
5
 
0
0
All other degree-seeking
1710
1284
 
40
15
Total degree-seeking
2331
1746
 
40
15
All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses
0
1
 
0
3
Total undergraduates
2331
1747
 
40
18
First-professional          
First-time, first-professional students          
All other first-professionals          
Total first-professional          
Graduate          
Degree-seeking, first-time
1183
516
 
10
1
All other degree-seeking
2964
1226
 
89
49
All other graduates enrolled in credit courses
12
6
 
90
38
Total graduate
4159
1748
 
189
88

Total all undergraduates: 4136

Total all graduate and professional students: 6184

GRAND TOTAL ALL STUDENTS: 10,320

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, 2004 . 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
68
305
307
Black, non-Hispanic
62
248
248
American Indian or Alaskan Native
21
66
66
Asian or Pacific Islander
281
1149
1149
Hispanic
125
476
476
White, non-Hispanic
382
1457
1457
Race/ethnicity unknown
138
431
433
Total
1077
4132
4136

 

Persistence

B3. Number of degrees awarded by your institution from July 1, 2003 , to June 30, 2004 .

Certificate/diploma    ___
Associate degrees  ___
Bachelor's degrees  
1194
Postbachelor's certificates  ___
Master's degrees  
1640
Post-master's certificates  ___
Doctoral degrees  
467
First professional degrees  ___
First professional certificates  ___

 

Graduation Rates
The items in this section correspond to data elements 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 2004 Web-based survey.

For Bachelor's or Equivalent Programs

Please provide data for the fall 1998 cohort if available. If fall 1998 cohort data are not available, provide data for the fall 1997 cohort.

Fall 1998 Cohort
Report for the cohort of full-time first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 1998. Include in the cohort those who entered your institution during the summer term preceding fall 1998.

B4. Initial 1998 cohort of first-time, full-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students;total all students: 1044

B5. Of the initial 1998 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: 2

B6. Final 1998 cohort, after adjusting for allowable exclusions: 1042
(Subtract question B5 from question B4)

B7. Of the initial 1998 cohort, how many completed the program in four years or less (by August 31, 2002): 840

B8. Of the initial 1998 cohort, how many completed the program in more than four years but in five years or less (after August 31, 2002 and by August 31, 2003): 100

B9. Of the initial 1998 cohort, how many completed the program in more than five years but in six years or less (after August 31, 2003 and by August 31, 2004): 23

B10. Total graduating within six years (sum of questions B7, B8, and B9): 963

B11. Six-year graduation rate for 1998 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 2003 (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 2003 (or the preceding summer term), what percentage was enrolled at your institution as of the date your institution calculates its official enrollment in fall 2004? 98%

 

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