Graduation Rates for Declared ABUS, AECN, NREE Majors

A student who, at any point, declares the major is included in this analysis, even if they subsequently changed to another major. Student who transition and subsequently graduate with another major are also successful outcomes from the perspective of a student or the institution.

Analysis Details

This is a lagging analysis, following students that began in 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015. A cohort includes first time freshman and transfer students that begin in a given year, with students starting in the summer counted toward the next fall. Graduation is considered up to current time, i.e. Inter-college major codes are placed back into their major. Students in non-degree programs and pre-major programs and undeclared are not counted as touching major until they declare a degree granting major. Primary and secondary majors are all counted equally.

The gap is the difference between the fraction of first generation and continuing generation students that do not graduate (with any degree).

Did Not Graduate
Gap First Generation Continuing Generation
Fraction Number Declared Fraction Number Declared
AECN 7 22% 19 86 15% 16 106
ABUS 4 19% 28 149 15% 31 203
NREE −3 17% 2 12 20% 3 15

 

Majors that successfully transition students to other majors and subsequently graduate.

Transitioned
and Graduated with a Different Major
First Generation Continuing Generation
Fraction Number Declared Fraction Number Declared
NREE 58% 7 12 33% 5 15
ABUS 40% 59 149 32% 64 203
AECN 10% 9 86 10% 11 106

 

Top destinations to which students transition and graduate.

Successful Transitions
Top Destinations
1 2 3 4 5
ABUS AECN (52%) AGRO (8%) NA (5%) ASCI (4%) ACCG (3%)
AECN ABUS (24%) ASCI (24%) AGRO (19%) ACCG (5%) AEDU (5%)
NREE ENVR (23%) AECN (15%) APSC (15%) FWL (15%) AGRO (8%)

 

First generation students that did not graduate

In order to understand the above, we examine the course schedules of those students above that are first generation and did not graduate. Below is a list of top courses in terms of DFW by the these students. DFW refers to the number of those students that received a D, F, or withdrew from that course.

First Generation Students that Did Not Graduate
Top 30 courses resulting in DFWs
DFW Enrollment1
ECON211 14 23
MATH104 13 16
MUNM287 10 15
AGRO131 9 18
STAT218 8 17
BIOS101 6 11
MATH101 6 15
ACCT201 5 8
AECN141 5 27
HIST110 5 10
AECN256 4 23
AECN435 4 5
AGRO153 4 10
BSAD150 4 9
ECON212 4 9
EDPS459 4 7
HIST245 4 4
AECN201 3 13
AECN301 3 4
AECN357 3 5
BIOS101L 3 9
CHEM109 3 4
COMM286 3 8
JGEN220 3 5
NRES220 3 5
THEA112G 3 14
AECN399 2 2
AECN436 2 2
AECN453 2 5
AGRI282 2 9
AGRO132 2 6
ASCI250 2 8
ASCI271 2 4
BSAD101 2 3
FINA260 2 6
FINA365 2 2
GEOG140 2 6
HIST101 2 4
HIST111 2 8
LIFE120 2 5
MNGT300 2 2
POLS100 2 8

1 The number of students, specifically first generation that did not graduate, enrolled in the course.

 

Below are the last AECN, NREE courses taken by the first generation students that do not graduate.

First Generation Students that Did Not Graduate
Last course taken within major
Students
AECN141 11
AECN225 7
AECN256 7
AECN201 5
AECN435 3
AECN453 3
AECN100 2
AECN301 2
AECN336 2
AECN357 2
AECN401 2
AECN436 2
AECN452 2
AECN275 1
AECN325 1
AECN346 1
AECN376 1
AECN388 1
AECN399 1
AECN425 1
NREE357 1

 

Disaggregated DFW rates per course

While the calculation of graduation rates take a number of years for students to move through the university, more recent DFW rates can provide a more immediate comparison of the course-level equity gaps between first generation and continuing generation students. These data are from Fall 2018 through Spring 2020. Courses with fewer than 10 students in a category are merged together in “other”.

Equity gaps in DFW by course
Gap First Generation Continuing Generation Melt1
Fraction DFW Students Fraction DFW Students
other AECN3XX 29 40% 4 10 11% 2 19
other NREE4XX 19 25% 1 4 6% 1 16
AECN345 8 8% 1 12 0% 0 57
AECN467 7 9% 2 23 2% 2 101
AECN265 7 13% 2 15 7% 3 45
NREE265 7 13% 2 15 7% 3 45
AECN316 6 7% 3 44 1% 1 89
AECN336 5 14% 3 21 10% 6 62
AECN201 4 17% 17 103 12% 39 318 16%
AECN301 4 9% 5 57 5% 5 108 20%
AECN435 4 10% 3 29 6% 5 77
other AECN4XX 4 5% 2 40 1% 2 171
AECN100 3 6% 1 18 2% 2 90
AECN225 3 12% 3 26 8% 7 84 40%
AECN453 3 6% 2 33 3% 2 65
AECN275 2 3% 2 63 1% 1 93
AECN376 2 5% 1 20 3% 1 33
AECN235 1 3% 3 109 1% 4 312
AECN256 0 8% 8 103 7% 25 338 27%
AECN141 0 9% 17 189 9% 43 491 37%
AECN357 0 5% 8 166 5% 16 348 29%
NREE357 0 5% 8 166 5% 16 348 29%
other AECN1XX 0 0% 0 3 0% 0 15
AECN109 −0 5% 2 44 5% 3 63
AECN436 −2 6% 1 16 8% 5 64
AECN401 −2 9% 4 46 11% 11 100 13%
AECN388 −4 0% 0 21 4% 4 105
AECN325 −4 8% 3 37 12% 17 136 30%
AECN396 −5 0% 0 17 5% 2 42
AECN474 −5 0% 0 15 5% 2 38
AECN452 −6 6% 2 34 12% 11 93 0%
AECN425 −16 0% 0 13 16% 7 43

1 Melt is the fraction of DFW students, regardless of generation, that failed to register the subsequent Fall and did not graduate with a degree. It is only shown for courses with at least 10 DFW students.