Quality Measures

Enrollment

  16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22 22-23 23-24
Undergraduate 5,829 5,917 5,828 5,764 5,642 5,778

5,710

5,903

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

1,364

1,421

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

7,074

7,324

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

1,388

1,463

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

3.83

3.83

First-time Transfer 199 189 156 159 149 151

144

173

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

364

364

First-time PhD 82 80 111 78 72 101

78

67

Faculty

  16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22 22-23 23-24
Faculty Count (Tenured and Tenure-Track) 337 341 326 323 320 315 311 297
Faculty Count (Instructional and Research Track)1 70 74 88 92 86 83 97 110
Average Teaching Evaluation Score2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.3 TBD

Retention and Completion

  16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22 22-23 23-24
First-to-Second Year Retention Rate % 82.8 83.2 83.4 83.5 85.7 84.7 84.9 87.6
Undergraduate Graduation Rate % 66.8 66.5 68.4 69.5 72.2 69.1 67.8 68.7
Bachelor's Degrees Awarded 1,115 1,149 1,197 1,203 1,202 1,198 1,145 TBD
Master's Degree Awarded 489 438 448 357 424 353 385 TBD
PhD Degrees Awarded 88 93 86 85 84 74 86 TBD

Post-Graduation

  16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22 22-23 23-24
Career Outcome Rates (All student respondents) 92.5 93.4 97.4 90.1 94.5 TBD TBD TBD
Median Early-Career Salaries3 $63,000 $63,000 $64,600 $65,000 $67,400 $71,100 TBD $80,300
Median Mid-Career Salaries3 $102,000 $107,500 $110,200 $116,300 $114,700 $120,900 TBD $135,600
Social Mobility Index Rank4 88 121 112 265 304 417 808 367
Social Mobility Index Total Ranked4 918 1,363 1,380 1,458 1,449 1,550 1,414 1,198
Social Mobility Index Ranking4 9.6% 8.9% 8.1% 18.2% 21.0% 26.9% 57.1% 20.6%

 

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.