Quality Measures

Enrollment

  17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22 22-23 23-24 24-25
Undergraduate 5,917 5,828 5,764 5,642 5,778

5,710

5,903

 6,022

Graduate 1,402 1,375 1,277 1,233 1,231

1,364

1,421

 1,407

Undergraduate + Graduate 7,319 7,203 7,041 6,875 7,009

7,074

7,324

 7,429 

First-time, First-year 1,323 1,245 1,301 1,201 1,479

1,388

1,463

 1,373 

Average High School GPA, First-time, First-year students 3.72 3.75 3.78 3.77 3.78

3.83

3.83

 3.84 

First-time Transfer 189 156 159 149 151

144

173

 139 

First-time Master's 348 289 345 219 322

364

364

 328 

First-time PhD 80 111 78 72 101

78

67

 105 

Faculty

  17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22 22-23 23-24 24-25
Faculty Count (Tenured and Tenure-Track) 341 326 323 320 315 311 297  301 
Faculty Count (Instructional and Research Track)1 74 88 92 86 83 97 110  121 
Average Teaching Evaluation Score2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.3 TBD

Retention and Completion

  17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22 22-23 23-24 24-25
First-to-Second Year Retention Rate % 83.2 83.4 83.5 85.7 84.7 84.9 87.6 88.7 
Undergraduate Graduation Rate % 66.5 68.4 69.5 72.2 69.1 67.8 68.7 TBD
Bachelor's Degrees Awarded 1,149 1,197 1,203 1,202 1,198 1,145  1,134 TBD
Master's Degree Awarded 438 448 357 424 353 385  466  TBD
PhD Degrees Awarded 93 86 85 84 74 86  86  TBD

Post-Graduation

  17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22 22-23 23-24 24-25
Career Outcome Rates (All student respondents) 93.4 97.4 90.1 94.5 92.8  93.0  TBD TBD
Median Early-Career Salaries3 $63,000 $64,600 $65,000 $67,400 $71,100 NA* $80,300  $82,400 
Median Mid-Career Salaries3 $107,500 $110,200 $116,300 $114,700 $120,900 NA* $135,600  $139,300 
Social Mobility Index Rank4 121 112 265 304 417 808 367  356 
Social Mobility Index Total Ranked4 1,363 1,380 1,458 1,449 1,550 1,414 1,198  1,205 
Social Mobility Index Ranking4 8.9% 8.1% 18.2% 21.0% 26.9% 57.1% 20.6% 29.5%

 

1Headcount of instructional and research-track faculty. Excludes temporary and fixed term faculty.

2 Likert Scale 1-5, five being highest possible score.

3 The study only included schools with a statistically significant sample size.  All the data incorporated into PayScale's College Salary Report were collected from individuals who completed the PayScale Salary Survey.
NA*: 2022 PayScale's College Salary Report not available.

Index rankings are computed from six variables: ethos, published tuition, percent of student body whose families are below $48k, graduation rate, median salary approximately 5 years after graduation, and endowment. These variables are mathematically balanced against live data so that they fall into three weighting tiers:

  1. ethos, tuition, and economic disadvantage at the highest tier (access);
  2. graduation rate and salary at the next, half-weight tier (outcome); and
  3. the endowment at a half again, or 1/4 weight tier (institutional capability).

Each weighting tier is thus twice as "sensitive" as the next in that making realistic changes to the variables at that tier can cause approximately twice as much movement in the rankings as changes to the next tier's variables.