Students
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Undergraduate Student Graduation and Retention Rates
Freshman Matriculants in Fall 1997*
Rating at Time
Number of Fall
of Admission
Matriculants
Transfers Out in
Within Twelve Semesters
Retention
Graduates
Rate**
Good Standing
Number
Percent
Number
Percent
Top 5%
126
7
6%
113
90%
96%
Next 20%
712
46
6%
634
89%
95%
Remaining 75%
1,148
34
3%
1,027
89%
92%
Total
1,986
87
4%
1,774
89%
93%
* "Retention Rate" is the "graduation rate" plus the "transfer out rate" of students to another college, and is based on the national standard of six years after matriculation.
Source: Office of Enrollment Management Research: March 2004
Competitive Fellowships and Awards, 1995 - 2004
Received by Undergraduates
Award
Total Number
Received
Andrew Mellon Scholarship....................................................................................4
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship............................................................................8
Beckman Scholarship................................................................................................8
Beinecke Memorial Scholarship..............................................................................3
Freeman/ASIA Scholarship..................................................................................19
Gates-Cambridge Scholarship.................................................................................1
George C. Marshall Scholarship.............................................................................4
Harry S. Truman Scholarship..................................................................................5
Institute for International Public Policy Fellowship............................................2
J. William Fulbright Grant (Undergraduate)......................................................69
James Madison Scholarship.....................................................................................1
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships..........................4
National Security Education Program Fellowship.............................................16
Rhodes Scholarship...................................................................................................2
Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship................................................4
Thomas Pickering Scholarship................................................................................2
Winston Churchill Scholarship...............................................................................1
Source: University Fellowship Committee