Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) Disclosures

Student Body Diversity Fall 2024

The Higher Education Opportunity Act (2008) requires institutions to provide information about the student body diversity, including the percentage of enrolled, full-time students in the following categories:

• ​Gender
• Self-identified members of a major racial or ethnic group
• Federal Pell Grant recipients

Total Full-time Undergraduates (1) = 4,163

Gender

Female = 2,252 (54.1%)

Male = 1,911 (45.9%)

Race/ethnic subgroups

American Indian or Alaska Native = 2 (<0.1%)

Asian = 55 (1.3%)

Black or African American = 100 (2.4%)

Hispanic/Latino = 364 (8.7%)

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander = 3 (0.1%)

Nonresident Alien = 70 (1.7%)

Race and ethnicity unknown = 162 (3.9%)

Two or more races = 105 (2.5%)

White = 3,302 (79.3%)

Financial Aid Status

Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant (AY 2023 – 24) (2) = 563 (13.4%)

Total Full-time Graduates(1) = 251

Gender

Female = 142 (56.6%)

Male = 109 (43.4%)

Race/ethnic subgroups

American Indian or Alaska Native = 1 (0.4%)

Asian = 7 (2.8%)

Black of African American = 10 (4.0%)

Hispanic/Latino = 18 (7.2%)

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander = 0 (0.0%)

Nonresident Alien = 18 (7.2%)

Race and ethnicity unknown = 1 (0.4%)

Two or more races = 14 (5.6%)

White = 182 (72.5%)

1) Based on IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey, submitted Spring 2025, which does not include Fall study abroad students and only credit-seeking students.

2) Information for Pell Grants recipients is based on the 2024-2025 submitted IPEDS Student Financial Aid survey which reports the prior year’s institutional financial aid information. For aid year 2023-24, N reported to IPEDs = 4,191.

Graduation Rates for Full-Time, First-Time, Degree-Seeking Undergraduates (Cohort 2018)

The Higher Education Opportunity Act (2008) requires institutions to provide their completion and graduation rate information disaggregated by:

• ​Gender
• Major racial and ethnic subgroup (as defined in IPEDS)
• Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant
• Recipients of a subsidized Stafford Loan who did not receive a Pell Grant
• Students who did not receive either a Pell Grant or a subsidized Stafford Loan​

		Time to Degree
Category	Number of Students1	4 Years	5 Years	6 Years
Overall	1,121	83.3%	84.9%	85.8%
Gender
Female	617	84.8%	85.9%	86.5%
Male	504	81.5%	83.7%	84.9%
Race/ethnic subgroups2
American Indian/Alaska Native	–	–	–	–
Asian	18	72.2%	72.2%	72.2%
Black or African American	43	67.4%	72.1%	74.4%
Hispanic/Latino	117	79.5%	83.8%	86.3%
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander	3	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Nonresident Alien	15	53.3%	53.3%	53.3%
Race/ethnicity unknown	43	86.0%	86.0%	86.0%
Two or more races	30	86.7%	86.7%	90.0%
White	852	85.1%%	86.4%	87.0%
Financial Aid Status3
Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant	185	82.2%	84.9%	87.6%
Recipients of a subsidized Federal Loan who did not receive a Pell Grant	326	82.2%	83.7%	84.4%
Students who did not receive either a Pell Grant or a subsidized Federal Loan	610	84.3%	85.6%	86.1%
Student Right-to-Know4
4-year average Student Right-to-Know completion or graduation rate				87.1%
4-year average Student Right-to-Know transfer-out rate				10.5%

1) All graduation rate data are based on the 2018 revised cohort as reported to IPEDs on the Spring 2024-2025 Graduation Rate survey.

2) Provided by the Office of Financial Aid, based on 2018-19 Aid Year only.​

3) Based on 2015-2018 entering students, who graduated or transferred within 6 years.

Retention Rates

The Higher Education Opportunity Act (2008) requires institutions to make available the retention rate of certificate – or degree-seeking, first-time undergraduate students as reported to IPEDS.

Fall 2023 Total = 1,191

Returned in Fall 2024 = 1,119

Retention Rate = 94.0​%