Enrollment, Persistence, and Graduation
Student Enrollment
AIR calculates official registered enrollment for each semester/term in the academic year. Current enrollment data can be found at the links below, including full-time/part-time status, year in school (calculated by completed credits), gender, and total student FTE.
Fall Enrollment Comparison 2020-2024
(including the above criteria as well as race/ethnicity, first-year and transfer cohorts)
Student Persistence
A “first-year cohort” is defined as all full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students entering the institution during the fall term. Luther, like all institutions, uses the first-year cohort student count as the basis for calculating persistence and graduation rates reported to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
FY COHORT PERSISTENCE AND GRADUATION RATES 2015-2024
TRANSFER COHORT PERSISTENCE AND GRADUATION RATES 2017-2024
Graduation Rates
The HEA (Higher Education Act) added a provision requiring that the completion of 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
Follow the links below to these data tables.
6-Year Graduation Rates by Gender and Race/Ethnicity
6-YEAR GRADUATION RATES BY PELL GRANT AND STAFFORD LOAN RECEIPT