Department Retention Rates

The Department of Journalism consistently has had a very high retention rate of first-year students returning to 51动漫 the following year.

  • Fall 2008 cohort: 87% (entire university: 88%)
  • Fall 2009 cohort: 89% (entire university: 89%)
  • Fall 2010 cohort: 92% (entire university: 87%)
  • Fall 2011 cohort: 91% (entire university: 87%)
  • Fall 2012 cohort: 92% (entire university: 89%)
  • Fall 2013 cohort: 88% (entire university: 89%)
  • Fall 2014 cohort: 94% (entire university: 90%)
  • Fall 2015 cohort: 95.1% (entire university: 90%)
  • Fall 2016 cohort: 82.6% (entire university 90%)
  • Fall 2017 cohort: 89.2% (entire university 89%)
  • Fall 2018 cohort: 90.7% (entire university 89%)
  • Fall 2019 cohort: 89.7% (entire university 87%)
  • Fall 2020 cohort:聽82%聽(entire university 86%)

  • Fall 2021 cohort: 90% (entire university 84%)

  • Fall 2022 cohort: 84% (entire university 84%)聽

Department Graduation Rates

The department鈥檚 graduation rate for the past 11 years is included below.

  • Fall 2008 cohort
    • Four-year rate: 52%
    • Five-year rate: 68%
    • Six-year rate: 72% (entire university: 69%)
  • Fall 2009 cohort
    • Four-year rate: 57%
    • Five-year rate: 71% (entire university: 66%)
    • Six-year rate: 79% (entire university: 70%)
  • Fall 2010 cohort
    • Four-year rate: 56% (entire university: 44%)
    • Five-year rate: 72% (entire university: 65%)
    • Six-year rate: 75.6% (entire university: 70%)
  • Fall 2011 cohort
    • Four-year rate (2015): 67%
    • Five-year rate (2016): 82.5%
    • Six-year rate (2017): 84.1%
  • Fall 2012 cohort
    • Four-year rate (2016): 58%
    • Five-year rate (2017): 70.5%
    • Six-year rate (2018): 72.3%
  • Fall 2013 cohort
    • Four-year rate (2017): 70.8%
    • Five-year rate (2018): 83.3%
    • Six-year rate (2019): 84.2%
  • Fall 2014 cohort
    • Four-year rate (2018): 70.1%
    • Five-year rate (2019): 77.6%
    • Six-year rate (2020): 82.2%
  • Fall 2015 cohort
    • Four-year rate (2019): 71.7%
    • Five-year rate (2020): 78.3%
    • Six-year rate (2021):聽80.4%
  • Fall 2016 cohort
    • Four-year rate (2020) 69.7%
    • Five-year rate (2021): 76.1%
    • Six-year rate (2022):聽77.1%
  • Fall 2017 cohort
    • Four-year rate (2021): 64%
    • Five-year rate (2022): 70.9%
    • Six-year rate (2023):聽72.1%
  • Fall 2018 cohort
    • Four-year rate (2022):聽65.4%
    • Five-year rate (2023): 79.5%
  • Fall 2019 cohort
    • Four-year rate (2023): 52.4%聽