Enrollment

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- • The total enrollment (based on headcount) for the University of Redlands for Fall 2017 is 4899 and has remained relatively steady over the 6 academic years.
- • Changes to enrollment is one of the key data points for the WASC Mid-Cycle Review, with an acceptable threshold of +/- 20% on an annual basis. WASC noted in our review that our stable enrollment with an institutional value of 2.42% is admirable.
- • We seek to continue this trend with the North Star 2020 Initiative C1: Optimal Enrollment by setting our optimal enrollment of a 5% increase of enrollment-based revenue of 5% above the current levels for Fall 2020

- • Our 4-year graduation rate for the College of Arts & Sciences for the most recent cohort (Fall 2013) is 66%. This rate has consistently stayed above the median rate, based on a 3-year weighted average, for our Peer institutions.
- • For the 2018 Mid-Cycle Review (ended August 30, 2018) WASC commended our 4- and 6-year graduation rates as “exceptional” compared to the regional mean of 39%, noting that “this shows a great commitment to supporting student achievement on the part of UofR”.
- • We are further working to enhance our 4-year graduation rate through the North Star 2020 Initiative C2: Redlands Promise which seeks to build on our value proposition by guaranteeing a 4-year completion of Bachelor’s degrees for qualifying CAS undergraduates.

- • Our current 1^st to 3^rd semester retention rate for first-time full-time students in the College of Arts & Sciences is 82%. In recent years this rate has fallen below the peer median rate, based on a 3-year weighted average rate.
- • We have identified this as an area in need of improvement and are taking active steps to increase this rate under the oversight of Dean Brown and our Vice President of Student Affairs Donna Eddleman.

- • We welcomed 812 new students in the College of Arts & Sciences for the Fall 2018 semester. This represents an increase of almost 30 students compared to the budgeted number of 785.
- • Each of these new students above the budgeted number represents an increase in tuition revenue of $24,577.
- • The relative strength and size of the last two cohorts has helped to offset the loss in revenue from the prior two classes before them bringing the 4-year average cohort size to just below the historical mean.