Common Data Set 2004-05

 

A. GENERAL INFORMATION

 

A0.   Respondent Information (Not for Publication)

Name        Jocelyn Clark

Title                    Director

Office       Institutional Research

Mailing Address, City/State/Zip/Country  1100 S. Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA  30060-2896

Phone       678-915-7495

Fax            678-915-7496

E-mail Address          jclark3@spsu.edu

Are your responses to the CDS posted for reference on your institution’s Web site?     Yes    

If yes, please provide the URL of the corresponding Web page:              http://www.spsu.edu/irpa/cds0405.htm

 

A1.   Address Information

Name of College or University    Southern Polytechnic State University

Mailing Address, City/State/Zip/Country   1100 S. Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA  30060-2896

Street Address (if different), City/State/Zip/Country

Main Phone Number           678-915-7778

WWW Home Page Address        http://www.spsu.edu

Admissions Phone Number         678-915-4188

Admissions Toll-free Number    800-635-3204

Admissions Office Mailing Address, City/State/Zip/Country

Admissions Fax Number              678-915-7292

Admissions E-mail Address        admissions@spsu.edu

Is there a separate URL application site on the Internet? If so, please specify:           http://www.spsu.edu/home/prospective/apply/index.html

 

A2.   Source of institutional control (check one only)

Public

 

A3.   Classify your undergraduate institution:

Coeducational college

 

A4.  Academic year calendar

Semester

 

A5.  Degrees offered by your institution

Certificate

Postbachelor’s certificate

 

 

Associate

Master’s

  Transfer

 

  

 

Bachelor’s

 

 

 

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

379

60

21

3

Other first-year, degree-seeking

 

 

 

 

All other degree-seeking

1,342

292

943

181

Total degree-seeking

1,721

352

964

184

All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses

 

7

2

15

10

Total undergraduates

1,728

354

979

194

First-professional

 

 

 

 

First-time, first-professional students

 

 

 

 

All other first-professionals

 

 

 

 

Total first-professional

 

 

 

 

Graduate

 

 

 

 

Degree-seeking, first-time

26

19

48

11

All other degree-seeking

64

53

180

87

All other graduates enrolled in credit courses

1

 

29

28

Total graduate

91

72

257

126

 

Total all undergraduates:  3,255

 

Total all graduate and professional students:  546

 

GRAND TOTAL ALL STUDENTS:  3,801

 

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 Undergraduates” 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

21

176

176

Black, non-Hispanic

66

677

682

American Indian or Alaskan Native

1

7

7

Asian or Pacific Islander

26

209

210

Hispanic

12

87

87

White, non-Hispanic

337

2,065

2,093

Race/ethnicity unknown

 

 

 

Total

463

3,221

3,255

 

 

Persistence

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

Certificate/diploma                             19

Associate degrees                               5

Bachelor’s degrees                             421

Postbachelor’s certificates               2

Master’s degrees                                192

Post-master’s certificates                 _____

Doctoral degrees                                 _____

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: 307

 

 

 

B5.    Of the initial 1998 cohort, how many did not persist and did not graduate for the following reasons: death, permanent disability, or service in the armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government, or official church missions; total allowable exclusions: 0

 

 

 

B6.    Final 1998 cohort, after adjusting for allowable exclusions: 307

 

          (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): 19

 

 

 

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): 31

 

 

 

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): 21

 

 

 

B10.  Total graduating within six years (sum of questions B7, B8, and B9): 71

 

 

 

B11.  Six-year graduation rate for 1998 cohort (question B10 divided by question B6): 23 %

 

Note:  The Seven-year graduation rate for the 1996 cohort of our Architecture Program (5-year bachelors) was 28%.

 

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, permanently disability, or 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?   68 %

 

 

C. FIRST-TIME, FIRST-YEAR (FRESHMAN) ADMISSION

 

Applications

C1.  First-time, first-year (freshman) students: Provide the number of degree-seeking, first-time, first-year students who applied, were admitted, and enrolled (full- or part-time) in fall 2004. Include early decision, early action, and students who began studies during summer in this cohort. Applicants should include only those students who fulfilled the requirements for consideration for admission (i.e., who completed actionable applications) and who have been notified of one of the following actions: admission, nonadmission, placement on waiting list, or application withdrawn (by applicant or institution). Admitted applicants should include wait-listed students who were subsequently offered admission.

 

Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who applied                       898

Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who applied                  171

Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who were admitted           574

Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who were admitted      94

 

Total full-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) men who enrolled   364

Total part-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) men who enrolled  18

 

Total full-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) women who enrolled                              52

Total part-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) women who enrolled                             2

 

C2.  Freshman wait-listed students (students who met admission requirements but whose final admission was contingent on space availability)

        Do you have a policy of placing students on a waiting list?    No

                                                                                                           

 

Admission Requirements

C3.    High school completion requirement

Check the appropriate box to identify your high school completion requirement for degree-seeking entering students:

High school diploma is required and GED is not accepted

 

C4.  Does your institution require or recommend a general college-preparatory program for degree-seeking students?

Require

 

C5.  Distribution of high school units required and/or recommended. Specify the distribution of academic high school course units required and/or recommended of all or most degree-seeking students using Carnegie units (one unit equals one year of study or its equivalent). If you use a different system for calculating units, please convert.

 

Units Required

Units Recommended

Total academic units

18

 

English

4

 

Mathematics

4

 

Science

3

 

    Of these, units that must be lab

2

 

Foreign language

2

 

Social studies

3

 

History

2

 

Academic electives

2

 

Other (specify)

 

 

 

 

 

Basis for Selection

C6.    Do you have an open admission policy, under which virtually all secondary school graduates or students with GED equivalency diplomas are admitted without regard to academic record, test scores, or other qualifications?  No

 

C7.  Relative importance of each of the following academic and nonacademic factors in your first-time, first-year, degree-seeking (freshman) admission decisions.

 

 

Very Important

 

Important

Considered

Not Considered

Academic