Federal regulations require all colleges and universities that participate in Title IV financial-aid funding to provide prospective and enrolled students with information about the institution's retention and graduation rates. This required information includes the percentage of students who have graduated after six years, and is shown below.
UWM also serves a significant number of students who attend classes only part-time, and/or who may "stop out" with some frequency, while still progressing toward degree completion. Because six-year data often do not capture students like this, UWM has also opted to provide additional information – including the number of students still enrolled, those who transfer or "stop out" for reasons other than academic difficulty, and graduation rates after 10 years – in order to offer a more complete picture of UWM's overall student success rate.
| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Success Rate |
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| Full Time Students | Entering Semester | Total Students | Status After Six Years | Graduated After Ten Years | ||||||||
| Graduated | Still Enrolled | Graduated + Still Enrolled | Left With GPA >= 2.0 | Six Year Success Rate | ||||||||
| New Freshmen | Fall 1994 Fall 2000 Fall 2003 Fall 2004 |
1,590 2,816 3,635 3,666 |
38.4% 43.5% 43.1% 43.6% |
8.9% 7.0% 7.1% 6.8% |
47.3% 50.5% 50.3% 50.4% |
22.8% 27.7% 28.1% 27.7% |
70.1% 78.2% 78.3% 78.1% |
45.5% 48.5% |
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| New Transfers: Freshmen & Sophomores | Fall 1994 Fall 2000 Fall 2003 Fall 2004 |
682 912 842 965 |
48.2% 54.4% 50.7% 49.6% |
6.2% 3.5% 3.9% 4.6% |
54.4% 57.9% 54.6% 54.2% |
24.0% 22.8% 25.4% 24.4% |
78.4% 80.7% 80.0% 78.5% |
53.8% 58.0% |
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| New Transfers: Juniors & Seniors | Fall 1994 Fall 2000 Fall 2003 Fall 2004 |
383 434 392 437 |
65.5% 71.4% 68.4% 67.0% |
1.0% 1.6% 2.3% 1.6% |
66.6% 73.0% 70.7% 68.6% |
20.9% 17.1% 19.1% 19.2% |
87.5% 90.1% 89.8% 87.9% |
66.8% 72.8% |
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- Full-time students are those who registered full time in their first semester at UWM.
- New Freshmen are students who enter UWM with no previous college (other than AP and Youth Options).
- New Transfers are students who have attended another college prior to enrolling at UWM.