Retention Rate

The University’s RETENTION rates over the past five years are summarized in this chart:

Total Unduplicated Headcount		UG Degree Seeking	Graduate and Non-Degree	FTFT Cohort	FTFT Fall to Fall Retention
Fall 2012	876	802	74	160	57%
Fall 2013	949	869	80	151	66%
Fall 2014	1137	1111	26	164	59%
Fall 2015	1187	1168	19	148	64%
Fall 2016	1611	1570	41	123	63%
Averages					62%

Total Unduplicated Headcount		UG Degree Seeking	Graduate and Non Degree	FTFT Cohort	FTFT Fall to Fall Retention
Fall 2012	876	802	74	160	57%
Fall 2013	949	869	80	151	66%
Fall 2014	1137	1111	26	164	59%
Fall 2015	1187	1168	19	148	64%
Fall 2016	1611	1570	41	123	63%
Fall 2017	1231	1175	56	126	63%
Fall 2018	1041	937	77	229	68%
Fall 2019	986	893	93	150	71%
Fall 2020
Averages

As enrollment numbers have continued to increase, efforts to increase student retention have also intensified. The current First Year Experience focuses on student engagement, an Early Alert academic warning system was put into place, and then a joint Academic- Student Development CARE Team approach to early intervention when student issues arise has been implemented. The President also convened a new Retention Committee to study issues students have noted on Exit Surveys. The committee discussed current retention efforts and started work on recommendations for improvement.

The University’s RETENTION BENCHMARK has been set based on information provided by Ruffalo Noel-Levitz, a higher education consulting firm used by the University as an enrollment consultant. Within the categories measured by Ruffalo Noel-Levitz, consistent with other sources such as ACT, the benchmark for Brescia University as a four-year private institution with “lower selectivity” is 69%, the median range for this category, as seen in this Ruffalo Noel-Levitz chart, found on p. 13 of the entire “2015 Student Retention Indicators Benchmark Report for Four-Year and Two-Year Institutions”