Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) Disclosures
Student Body Diversity Fall 2023
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) = 4,081
Gender
Female = 2,213 (54.2%)
Male = 1,868 (45.8%)
Race/ethnic subgroups
American Indian or Alaska Native = 1 (<0.1%)
Asian = 62 (1.5%)
Black or African American = 126 (3.1%)
Hispanic/Latino = 348 (8.5%)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander = 3 (0.1%)
Nonresident Alien = 60 (1.5%)
Race and ethnicity unknown = 129 (3.2%)
Two or more races = 107 (2.6%)
White = 3,245 (79.5%)
Financial Aid Status
Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant (AY 2022 – 23) (2) = 529 (13.2%)
Total Full-time Graduates(1) = 214
Gender
Female = 105 (49.1%)
Male = 109 (50.9%)
Race/ethnic subgroups
American Indian or Alaska Native = 0 (0.0%)
Asian = 1 (0.5%)
Black of African American = 8 (3.7%)
Hispanic/Latino = 12 (5.6%)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander = 0 (0.0%)
Nonresident Alien = 22 (10.3%)
Race and ethnicity unknown = 1 (0.5%)
Two or more races = 12 (5.6%)
White = 158 (73.8%)
1) Based on IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey, submitted Spring 2024, which does not include Fall study abroad students and only credit-seeking students.
2) Information for Pell Grants recipients is based on the 2023-2024 submitted IPEDS Student Financial Aid survey which reports the prior year’s institutional financial aid information. For aid year 2022-23, N reported to IPEDs = 3,996.
Graduation Rates for Full-Time, First-Time, Degree-Seeking Undergraduates (Cohort 2017)
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 | 1,062 | 86.3% | 87.7% | 87.9% |
| Gender | ||||
| Female | 563 | 86.0% | 87.4% | 87.4% |
| Male | 499 | 86.8% | 88.0% | 88.4% |
| Race/ethnic subgroups2 | ||||
| American Indian/Alaska Native | <5 | - | - | - |
| Asian | 18 | 77.8% | 77.8% | 77.8% |
| Black or African American | 41 | 68.3% | 70.7% | 70.7% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 108 | 76.9% | 80.6% | 80.6% |
| Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander | <5 | - | - | - |
| Nonresident Alien | 19 | 84.2% | 84.2% | 84.2% |
| Race/ethnicity unknown | 46 | 76.1% | 82.6% | 82.6% |
| Two or more races | 15 | 80.0% | 80.0% | 80.0% |
| White | 810 | 89.6% | 90.2% | 90.5% |
| Financial Aid Status3 | ||||
| Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant | 148 | 79.7% | 81.8% | 81.8% |
| Recipients of a subsidized Federal Loan who did not receive a Pell Grant | 329 | 87.5% | 89.7% | 90.0% |
| Students who did not receive either a Pell Grant or a subsidized Federal Loan | 585 | 87.4% | 88.0% | 88.2% |
| Student Right-to-Know4 | ||||
| 4-year average Student Right-to-Know completion or graduation rate | 86.9% | |||
| 4-year average Student Right-to-Know transfer-out rate | 10.8% | |||
1) All graduation rate data are based on the 2017 revised cohort as reported to IPEDs on the Spring 2023-2024 Graduation Rate survey.
2) Graduation rates for American Indian/Alaskan Native are not included in this table because there were too few of these students to be able to report their graduation rates with confidentiality.
3) Provided by the Office of Financial Aid, based on 2017-18 Aid Year only.
4) Based on 2014-2017 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 2022 Total = 1,154
Returned in Fall 2023 = 1,052
Retention Rate = 91.2%
