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At Cornerstone University, we’re committed to helping students succeed in their goal of completing a college degree. We take seriously our role to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they’ll need to thrive both in their present and future vocation.
Student and Academic Learning Outcomes
In our desire to express the value of a Cornerstone education, CU is committed to publishing data regarding retention rates, graduation rates, placement rates, licensure rates and other relevant information related to student and academic learning outcomes of the university.
While reviewing this information, please keep the following in mind:
- All graduation rates are based on up to six years of attendance for bachelor’s programs, which equates to 150% of the normal completion time.
- We have elected not to report transfer-out rates because our University mission does not include providing substantial preparation for students to enroll in another eligible institution without completing or graduating.
- These graduation rates do not identify the reasons why our students withdrew; therefore, students who withdrew for personal or medical reasons are included.
- Graduation rates do not include students who left school to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, on official church missions, or with a foreign aid service of the federal government, or students who died or were totally and permanently disabled.
RETENTION AND GRADUATION RATES
RETENTION RATES
Institutions must make available to current and prospective students the retention rate of degree-seeking, first-time, undergraduate students as reported to IPEDS. This information is collected in the IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey.
Retention from Fall 2022 cohort still enrolled as of Fall 2023:
- Full-time 83.8%
- Part-time*
GRADUATION RATES
Each institution must annually make available to prospective and enrolled students the completion or graduation rate of degree-seeking, first-time, full-time, undergraduate students. The completion or graduation rates must be 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; and
- students who did not receive either a Pell Grant or a subsidized Stafford Loan.
These disaggregated rates are to be disclosed only if the number of students in each group is sufficient to yield statistically reliable information and not reveal personally identifiable information about an individual student.
This information is collected in the IPEDS Graduation Rates Survey.
PERCENT OF Bachelor’s Degree seeking students from the 2017 COHORT WHO graduated BY AUG 31, 2023:
- Total (men and women) 66.1%
- Men 65.6%
- Women 66.4%
- U.S. Nonresident 81.8%
- Hispanic / Latino 64.3%
- American Indian or Alaskan Native*
- Asian 50%
- Black or African American 37.5%
- Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander*
- White 67.3%
- Two or More Races*
- Recipients of a Pell Grant 54.8%
- Recipient of a subsidized Stafford Loan (but no Pell Grant) 69.1%
- Neither Pell Grant nor Stafford Loan 75%
DESTINATION RATES
Destination Rates are on-campus, undergraduate graduates reporting a primary status of employed full-time, employed part-time, continuing education, volunteer service, military service, or not seeking.
Respondents reporting a primary status of:
- Employed full-time 62.1%
- Employed part-time 8.5%
- Continuing Education 16.4%
- Volunteer service, Military service,
Not seeking .6% - Still seeking 12.4%
- Destination Rate 87.6%
- Knowledge Rate 82.3%
The graduating class from the 2022-2023 academic year was surveyed about their post-graduation destinations up to six months after degree completion. Data was also gathered from public record via LinkedIn. The knowledge rate is the percentage of the graduating population for which we have obtained data.
LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION EXAM PASS RATES
STUDENT-ATHLETE OUTCOMES
FALL 2017 COHORT GRADUATION RATES
General Student Body
- Athletes 71.3%
- Non-Athletes 63.2%
Athletes By Gender
- Male 64.3%
- Female 75.0%
Athletes by Sport
- Baseball*
- Basketball 75%
- Cross Country & Track 70%
- All Other Sports 73.9%
Athletes by Ethnicity
- Non-Resident Alien 80.0%
- Hispanic/Latino 80.0%
- American/Alaska Native*
- Asian*
- Black or African American 20%
- White 73.8%
- Multiple*
FOUR YEAR AVERAGE FALL 2014–2017 GRADUATION RATES
General Student Body
- Athletes 64.5%
- Non-Athletes 61.5%
Athletes By Gender
- Male 64.0%
- Female 64.9%
Athletes by Sport
- Baseball 46.2 %
- Basketball 73.6%
- Cross Country & Track 67.6%
- All Other Sports 63.1%
Athletes by Ethnicity
- Non-Resident Alien 66.7%
- Hispanic/Latino 56.3%
- American/Alaska Native*
- Asian*
- Black or African American 39.1%
- White 67.6%
- Multiple*
*Rates are disclosed if the number of students is at least 5.