Office of the Provost, Institutional Research

SSU Student Right To Know

Completion/Graduation Rate and Transfer-Out Rates of Full Time, First Time Degree/Certification Seeking Freshmen, 1996 - 1999

Degree Completion Rates:

1996 1997 1998 1999

Total Enr % Grad
by 2002 Total Enr % Grad
by 2003 Total Enr % Grad
by 2004 Total Enr % Grad
by 2005

Male 279 41.6% 291 36.1% 265 45.7% 288 42.2%

Female 502 53.5% 581 52.5% 557 51.6% 553 52.3%

Total * 781 49.3% 872 47.8% 822 48.5% 842 48.8%

*Total graduated within 150% of normal time (Six Years) for each cohort.

Four-Year Average (1996-1999) Student Right to Know Completion Rate: 49.2%

(The total number in all four cohorts (1,635) who graduated within 6 years / The total number originally enrolled in all four cohorts (3,323) to calculate the four year average graduation rate)

Four-Year Average (1995-1998) Student Right to Know Transfer-out Rate: 41.1%

(The total number in all four cohorts (1,296) who transfered out within 6 years / The total number originally enrolled in all four cohorts (3,156) to calculate the four year average transfer out rate)


The federal Student-Right-to-Know law passed in the early 1990s requires the computing of campus 
graduation rates for first-time-freshmen (FTF) who are regularly admissible to the university and who enroll in at least 
12 units in their first term of enrollment.