Retention and Graduation Rates – New
Retention and Graduation Rates
Fall to Fall Retention Rates
Retention rates reflect the percentage of students enrolled in a degree or certificate program on census date of fall term that either graduate from or are enrolled in a degree or certificate program the following fall term.
FA 2015 to FA 2016 |
93% |
FA 2016 to FA 2017 |
92% |
FA 2017 to FA 2018 |
91% |
FA 2018 to FA 2019 |
94% |
FA 2019 to FA 2020 |
96% |
FA 2020 to FA 2021 |
92% |
100% and 150% Graduation Rates by Program
SCU maintains a commitment to confidentiality of data. Due to the number of smaller programs at SCU, student success reports for individual programs disaggregate data by all IPEDS categories for race and ethnicity. Reports to the public disaggregate data into two demographic groups: students who identify as members of one of several underrepresented minority groups (URM) and students who do not. If we disaggregated data by every ethnicity, we would have to suppress many cells because they would not have sufficient membership to guarantee anonymity to any individual member.
According to the National Institutes of Health, the following racial and ethnic groups have been shown by the National Science Foundation to be underrepresented in health-related sciences on a national basis: Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. Thus, students who identify as members of one or more of these groups are included in the URM counts. Last Updated: December 2021
Ayurvedic Practitioner Certificate
Cohort Entering |
Ethnicities |
Cohort Size |
100% Graduation |
150% Graduation Rate |
Summer 2015 |
All |
13 |
92.3 |
92.3 |
Majority |
8 |
87.5 |
87.5 |
|
URM |
5 |
100 |
100.0 |
|
Summer 2016 |
All |
12 |
91.7 |
91.7 |
Majority |
7 |
100 |
100.0 |
|
URM |
5 |
80 |
80.0 |
|
Summer 2017 |
All |
13 |
76.9 |
76.9 |
Majority |
10 |
80.0 |
80.0 |
|
URM |
3 |
66.7 |
66.7 |
|
Summer 2018 |
All |
21 |
90.5 |
90.5 |
Majority |
10 |
80.0 |
80.0 |
|
URM |
11 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
|
Summer 2019 |
All |
34 |
79.4 |
85.3 |
Majority |
20 |
80.0 |
85.0 |
|
URM |
14 |
78.6 |
85.7 |
|
Summer 2020 |
All |
52 |
73.1 |
>=90.4* |
Majority |
29 |
72.4 |
>=89.7* |
|
URM |
23 |
73.9 |
>=73.9* |
*additional students may continue to graduate until 150% date reached
Ayurvedic Wellness Educator Certificate
Cohort Entering |
Ethnicities |
Cohort Size |
100% Graduation |
150% Graduation Rate |
|
Summer 2015 |
All |
22 |
63.6 |
63.6 |
|
Majority |
13 |
76.9 |
76.9 |
||
URM |
9 |
44.4 |
44.4 |
||
Summer 2016 |
All |
20 |
65.0 |
65.0 |
|
Majority |
14 |
71.4 |
71.4 |
||
URM |
6 |
50.0 |
50.0 |
||
Summer 2017 |
All |
39 |
59.0 |
59.0 |
|
Majority |
20 |
55.0 |
55.0 |
||
URM |
19 |
63.2 |
63.2 |
||
Summer 2018 |
All |
54 |
87.0 |
87.0 |
|
Majority |
25 |
92.0 |
92.0 |
||
URM |
29 |
82.8 |
82.8 |
||
Summer 2019 |
All |
72 |
88.9 |
88.9 |
|
Majority |
38 |
94.7 |
94.7 |
||
URM |
34 |
82.4 |
82.4 |
||
Summer 2020 |
All |
65 |
55.4 |
61.5 |
|
Majority |
34 |
61.8 |
70.6 |
||
URM |
31 |
48.4 |
51.6 |
10-Term Doctor of Chiropractic
Cohort Entering |
Ethnicities |
Cohort Size |
100% Graduation |
150% Graduation Rate |
|
Fall 2015 |
All |
92 |
58.7 |
71.7 |
|
Majority |
71 |
60.6 |
74.6 |
||
URM |
21 |
52.4 |
61.9 |
||
Spring 2016 |
All |
33 |
51.5 |
78.8 |
|
Majority |
27 |
48.1 |
81.5 |
||
URM |
6 |
66.7 |
66.7 |
||
Summer 2016 |
All |
0 |
|
|
|
Majority |
0 |
|
|||
URM |
0 |
|
|
||
Fall 2016 |
All |
87 |
67.8 |
80.5 |
|
Majority |
62 |
66.1 |
79.0 |
||
URM |
25 |
72.0 |
84.0 |
||
Spring 2017 |
All |
38 |
60.5 |
>=76.3* |
|
Majority |
26 |
65.4 |
>=73.1* |
||
URM |
12 |
50.0 |
>=83.3* |
||
Summer 2017 |
All |
1 |
SUPPRESSED TO MAINTAIN |
||
Majority |
1 |
|
|
||
URM |
0 |
|
|
||
Fall 2017 |
All |
60 |
66.7 |
>=83* |
|
Majority |
50 |
64.0 |
>=84* |
||
URM |
10 |
80.0 |
>=80* |
||
Spring 2018 |
All |
23 |
73.9 |
>=78.3* |
|
Majority |
19 |
73.7 |
>=78.9* |
||
URM |
4 |
75.0 |
>=75* |
*additional students may continue to graduate until 150% date reached
10-Term Doctor of Chiropractic – CCE Definition**
Cohort Entering |
Ethnicities |
Cohort Size |
100% Graduation |
150% Graduation Rate |
|
Fall 2015 |
All |
77 |
70.1 |
85.7 |
|
Majority |
62 |
69.4 |
85.5 |
||
URM |
15 |
73.3 |
86.7 |
||
Spring 2016 |
All |
31 |
54.8 |
83.9 |
|
Majority |
25 |
52.0 |
88.0 |
||
URM |
6 |
66.7 |
66.7 |
||
Summer 2016 |
All |
0 |
|
|
|
Majority |
0 |
|
|||
URM |
0 |
|
|
||
Fall 2016 |
All |
79 |
74.7 |
88.6 |
|
Majority |
56 |
73.2 |
87.5 |
||
URM |
23 |
78.3 |
91.3 |
||
Spring 2017 |
All |
32 |
71.9 |
90.6 |
|
Majority |
21 |
81.0 |
>=90.5* |
||
URM |
11 |
54.5 |
>=90.9* |
||
Summer 2017 |
All |
1 |
SUPPRESSED TO MAINTAIN |
||
Majority |
1 |
|
|||
URM |
0 |
|
|
||
Fall 2017 |
All |
57 |
70.2 |
>=87.7* |
|
Majority |
48 |
66.7 |
>=87.5* |
||
URM |
9 |
88.9 |
>=88.9* |
||
Spring 2018 |
All |
21 |
81.0 |
>=85.7* |
|
Majority |
18 |
77.8 |
>= 83.3* |
||
URM |
3 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
*additional students may continue to graduate until 150% date reached
**
1. Student withdrawal/leave of absence due to military deployment orders;
2. Program approved withdrawal/leave of absence due to a documented serious health condition, illness or injury;
3. Death of the student;
4. Student transfers to another accredited DCP;
5. Student does not persist to the second term
12-Term Doctor of Chiropractic
Cohort Entering |
Ethnicities |
Cohort Size |
100% Graduation |
150% Graduation Rate |
|
Fall 2017 |
All |
23 |
73.9 |
* |
|
Majority |
18 |
83.3 |
* |
||
URM |
5 |
40 |
* |
*additional students may continue to graduate until 150% date reached
Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
Cohort Entering |
Ethnicities |
Cohort Size |
100% Graduation |
150% Graduation Rate |
|
Fall 2014 |
All |
15 |
40.0 |
73.3 |
|
Majority |
13 |
38.5 |
76.9 |
||
URM |
2 |
50.0 |
50.0 |
||
Spring 2015 |
All |
2 |
0.0 |
50.0 |
|
Majority |
2 |
0.0 |
50.0 |
||
URM |
0 |
|
|
||
Fall 2015 |
All |
5 |
60.0 |
60.0 |
|
Majority |
3 |
66.7 |
66.7 |
||
URM |
2 |
50.0 |
50.0 |
||
Spring 2016 |
All |
3 |
66.7 |
66.7 |
|
Majority |
3 |
66.7 |
66.7 |
||
URM |
0 |
|
|
||
Fall 2016 |
All |
4 |
50.0 |
50.0 |
|
Majority |
4 |
50.0 |
50.0 |
||
URM |
0 |
|
|
||
Spring 2017 |
All |
1 |
SUPPRESSED TO MAINTAIN |
||
Majority |
1 |
|
|||
URM |
0 |
|
|
||
Fall 2018 |
All |
2 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
|
Majority |
2 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
||
URM |
0 |
|
Master of Science in Medical Science
Cohort Entering |
Ethnicities |
Cohort Size |
100% Graduation |
150% Graduation Rate |
|
Fall 2020 |
All |
16 |
81.25 |
>=87.5* |
|
Majority |
5 |
100 |
100 |
||
URM |
11 |
72.7 |
>=81.8* |
*additional students may continue to graduate until 150% date reached
Master of Science: Physician Assistant Program
Cohort Entering |
Ethnicities |
Cohort Size |
100% Graduation |
150% Graduation Rate |
|
Fall 2016 |
All |
26 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
|
Majority |
24 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
||
URM |
2 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
||
Fall 2017 |
All |
36 |
86.1 |
97.2 |
|
Majority |
28 |
85.7 |
96.4 |
||
URM |
8 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
||
Fall 2018 |
All |
48 |
91.7 |
>=95.8* |
|
Majority |
44 |
95.5 |
>=95.5* |
||
URM |
4 |
50.0 |
100.0 |
*additional students may continue to graduate until 150% date reached
Licensure Exam Pass Rates by Program
Hear from the Students Who’ve Been in Your Shoes
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Student, Doctor of Chiropractic
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Katie Sakamoto
Student, Doctor of Chiropractic
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Student, Doctor of Chiropractic
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