Quality Measures

Enrollment

  15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22 22-23
Undergraduate 5,721 5,829 5,917 5,828 5,764 5,642 5,778

5,710

Graduate 1,521 1,441 1,402 1,375 1,277 1,233 1,231

1,364

Undergraduate + Graduate 7,242 7,270 7,319 7,203 7,041 6,875 7,009

7,074

First-time, First-year 1,277 1,381 1,323 1,245 1,301 1,201 1,479

1,388

Average High School GPA, First-time, First-year students 3.66 3.70 3.72 3.75 3.78 3.77 3.78

3.83

First-time Transfer 184 199 189 156 159 149 151

144

First-time Master's 374 301 348 289 345 219 322

364

First-time PhD 92 82 80 111 78 72 101

78

Faculty

  15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22 22-23
Faculty Count (Tenured and Tenure-Track) 341 337 341 326 323 320 315 311
Faculty Count (Instructional and Research Track)1 68 70 74 88 92 86 83 97
Average Teaching Evaluation Score2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 TBD

Retention and Completion

  15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22 22-23
First-to-Second Year Retention Rate % 87.1 82.8 83.2 83.4 83.5 85.7 84.7 84.9
Undergraduate Graduation Rate % 64.7 66.8 66.5 68.4 69.5 72.2 69.1 67.8
Bachelor's Degrees Awarded 1,110 1,115 1,149 1,197 1,203 1,202 1,198 TBD
Master's Degree Awarded 416 489 438 448 357 424 353 TBD
PhD Degrees Awarded 86 88 93 86 85 84 74 TBD

Post-Graduation

  15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22 22-23
Placement Rates % (All student respondents) 95.0 92.5 93.4 97.4 90.1 94.5 TBD TBD
Median Early-Career Salaries3 $62,800 $63,000 $63,000 $64,600 $65,000 $67,400 $71,100 TBD
Median Mid-Career Salaries3 $99,900 $102,000 $107,500 $110,200 $116,300 $114,700 $120,900 TBD
Social Mobility Index Rank4 54 88 121 112 265 304 417 808
Social Mobility Index Total Ranked4 931 918 1,363 1,380 1,458 1,449 1,550 1,414
Social Mobility Index Ranking4 5.8% 9.6% 8.9% 8.1% 18.2% 21.0% 26.9% 57.1%

 

1Headcount of instructional and research-track faculty. Excludes temporary and fixed term faculty.

2 Likert Scale 1-5, five being highest possible score.

3 The study only included schools with a statistically significant sample size.  All the data incorporated into PayScale's College Salary Report were collected from individuals who completed the PayScale Salary Survey.

Index rankings are computed from six variables: ethos, published tuition, percent of student body whose families are below $48k, graduation rate, median salary approximately 5 years after graduation, and endowment. These variables are mathematically balanced against live data so that they fall into three weighting tiers:

  1. ethos, tuition, and economic disadvantage at the highest tier (access);
  2. graduation rate and salary at the next, half-weight tier (outcome); and
  3. the endowment at a half again, or 1/4 weight tier (institutional capability).

Each weighting tier is thus twice as "sensitive" as the next in that making realistic changes to the variables at that tier can cause approximately twice as much movement in the rankings as changes to the next tier's variables.