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Institutional Research: Retention Rates

Retention Rates for Freshman Cohorts*, 2002 - 2011

	Cohort
% returning between:	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
1st-2nd Year	83.7%	85.0%	86.0%	86.3%	85.1%	85.7%	86.0%	89.2%	90.7%	88.9%
1st-3rd Year^	74.9%	78.4%	80.1%	79.1%	75.1%	78.5%	80.8%	83.0%	84.7%
1st-4th Year^	73.1%	76.5%	76.7%	76.5%	74.0%	76.9%	80.3%	78.8%

*Cohort consists of entering first-time, full-time freshmen; cohort membership remains fixed at fall entry, with no new members added or deleted from original group.

^Returned or graduated

Detailed table of year-to-year retention for the past ten freshman cohorts.

Retention Rates for Freshman Cohorts*, by School, 2002 - 2011 (percent returning sophomore year)

Arts & Sciences

Cohort	Entering	Same School	Other UP School
2002	381	71.7%	10.8%
2003	351	73.7%	10.9%
2004	365	75.3%	8.2%
2005	355	73.8%	11.3%
2006	350	74.6%	8.9%
2007	315	75.9%	4.8%
2008	336	75.6%	5.4%
2009	354	82.2%	5.6%
2010	387	82.4%	7.0%
2011	344	82.6%	8.1%

Business

Cohort	Entering	Same School	Other UP School
2002	98	67.3%	11.2%
2003	75	77.3%	8.0%
2004	91	80.2%	8.8%
2005	111	79.3%	8.1%
2006	103	79.6%	1.9%
2007	120	78.3%	7.5%
2008	115	75.7%	10.4%
2009	99	76.8%	12.1%
2010	116	87.1%	6.9%
2011	106	73.6%	11.3%

Education

Cohort	Entering	Same School	Other UP School
2002	40	75.0%	15.0%
2003	61	70.5%	16.4%
2004	43	58.1%	25.6%
2005	45	71.1%	11.1%
2006	45	77.8%	8.9%
2007	39	69.2%	20.5%
2008	47	83.0%	8.5%
2009	52	67.3%	21.2%
2010	55	74.5%	14.5%
2011	47	66.0%	21.3%

Engineering

Cohort	Entering	Same School	Other UP School
2002	143	79.0%	4.9%
2003	82	74.4%	8.5%
2004	137	76.6%	11.7%
2005	82	73.2%	12.2%
2006	81	77.8%	6.2%
2007	165	83.0%	4.8%
2008	149	81.9%	13.4%
2009	166	77.1%	12.7%
2010	173	82.1%	9.2%
2011	190	81.6%	8.9%

Nursing

Cohort	Entering	Same School	Other UP School
2002	70	87.1%	7.1%
2003	104	82.7%	3.8%
2004	113	88.5%	0.9%
2005	130	88.5%	2.3%
2006	145	87.6%	4.1%
2007	166	90.3%	1.8%
2008	146	81.5%	4.8%
2009	145	91.7%	0.7%
2010	157	86.0%	5.1%
2011	149	85.2%	4.0%

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