Student Learning and Satisfaction Definitions and Information
In compliance with the WASC accreditation commission the following is provided to help students, parents and the general public to learn about the graduation and completion rates at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
Cohort - The results generated on these pages are based on groups of students called a COHORT. A cohort is all Students who enrolled in a Summer or Fall Quarter in a certain year. Typically refered to as First Time Freshmen or FTF Cohort. Other cohorts include: New Transfers (NTR) and New Graduates (NGR).
FTF or First-Time Freshmen Cohort - Student who enrolled for the First Time in their college career with 12 units or more. These student will have enrolled in the Fall Quarter of a specific year. on the dashboard prompts you will see: First-Time Freshmen Fall 2012 as an option to select.
NTR or New Transfers Cohort - These are students who started college elsewhere and have subsequently transfered to CalPoly(currently not implemented in the Dashboard).
Ethnic Origin or Federal Ethnicity - This is the self reported ethnicity as checked on the CSU application. The grouping of students into the 9 Ethnic groups used by Institutional Research is based on the Federal standards defined by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System(IPEDS) as part of the National Center for Education Statistics(NCES).