Western New Mexico University serves many non-traditional students, a substantial numbers of whom enter the institution as transfer students and are therefore excluded from the standard calculation of graduation rates.

 


How did baccalaureate degree recipients first enter Western New Mexico University?

Recipients who originally entered the institution as:

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

Sum/Fall/Spr

Sum/Fall/Spr

Sum/Fall/Spr

 

 

 

N

%

N

%

N

%

First-time, full-time degree seeking fall semester freshmen graduating within six years.

51

28.3%

46

22.0%

32

19.8%

Transfers 

70

38.9%

85

40.7%

72

44.4%

Other (returning students, freshmen starting in spring, part-time students, etc.)

59

32.80%

78

37.30%

58

35.80%

All  baccalaureate degree recipients

180

100%

209

100%

162

100%


 

 

 


 What are our graduation rates?

 

 

Entered Fall 1994

Entered Fall 2003

Entered Fall 2004

Race/Ethnicity
& Sex

Cohort

N

 

% Bachelors Degrees through Summer 2000

Cohort

N

% Bachelors Degrees through Summer 2009

Cohort

N

% Bachelors Degrees through Summer 2010

African American

1

0.0

11

0.0

12

25.0

American Indian

15

0.4

10

23.1

7

0.0

Asian

3

0.4

2

50.0

2

0.0

Hispanic

141

10.9

166

25.2

161

16.1

White/Other

100

8.7

100

21.3

114

28.9

Nonresident Alien

5

1.1

0

0.0

4

50.0

Unknown

0

0.0

20

31.0

25

12.0

Men

97

19.6

140

20.0

139

21.6

Women

168

20.9

169

26.8

186

19.9

Overall

265

21.5

309

23.3

325

20.6

 

Graduation rates of first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen after 6 years