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Geographical Distribution: First Semester 1996-97 Alaska 10 Arizona 5 California 13 Colorado 12 Connecticut 3 District of Columbia 1 Florida 5 Georgia 3 Hawaii 1 Idaho 4 Illinois 14 Indiana 2 Iowa 9 Kansas 2 Kentucky 1 Louisiana 1 Maryland 1 Michigan 6 Minnesota 1,780 Missouri 4 Montana 223 Nebraska 12 Nevada 1 New Hampshire 1 New Jersey 5 New Mexico 1 New York 8 North Dakota 580 Ohio 4 Oklahoma 1 Oregon 6 Puerto Rico 1 South Dakota 56 Texas 5 Virginia 3 Washington 20 West Virginia 1 Wisconsin 40 Wyoming 9 U.S. Citizens Abroad 3                               Total 2,857 Number of states, including District of Columbia and Puerto Rico 39 Australia 2 Bangladesh 4 Botswana 1 Bulgaria 1 Canada 8 China 3 Croatia 1 Czechoslovakia 1 France 1 Gambia 1 Germany 5 Ghana 3 Great Britain 1 India 2 Israel 1 Japan 3 Kenya 1 Liberia 2 Mexico 1 Morocco 1 Namibia 1 Nepal 3 Norway 11 Panama 1 Peru 2 Russia 1 Samoa 1 Siera Leone 1 South Korea 1 Sri Lanka 1 Switzerland 1 Tanzania 2 Uruguay 1 Zimbabwe 1                                  Total 71                                   % of student body 2.42   Number of countries represented 34   Total students enrolled 2,928                                                                     Graduation Rate The recently adopted Student Right-to-Know Act requires that colleges and universities publish their six-year graduation rates. Concordia College is proud to provide these figures and has provided national statistics in order to put our students' record in context with other schools. At the time this catalog went to print, it was difficult to obtain good data from a comparable time period. Thus, the Concordia statistics are for the most recent six-year period, 1990-96, while the national statistics are for an earlier time period. While the Student Right-to-Know Act requires statistics on six-year graduates, it is important to realize that students who begin and finish at Concordia do so in four years. In fact, in the last 10 years, 91 percent of the students who began and finished at Concordia graduated in four years. Hence, using a six-year graduation rate for Concordia students is not very meaningful since only a handful of students are still here in their sixth year. For example, only three more students were added to the ranks of graduated students during the sixth year of the 1988-94 period. Of the freshmen who enrolled at Concordia in 1990, 68.8 percent of them had graduated six years later. A 1990 U.S. Department of Education study, Survey on Retention at Higher Education Institutions, is the latest source of national statistics for students enrolling in higher education in 1984. This survey shows a six-year graduation rate of 56 percent for private institutions and 45 percent for public institutions. This study also found that between the eighth and ninth semesters, the percentage of independent college and university students who completed their degrees is almost twice as large as the percentage of public institution graduates.   This page created and maintained by Office of Communications (daanders@cord.edu) Date of last update: 7/8/97 Copyright © 1997 Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. All Rights Reserved.