STUDENT OUTCOME DATA

This page includes key summary information related to student outcomes data for the following areas: retention, graduation, employment, future education, and licensure rates. This information provided is intended for use by the UMKC faculty and staff in planning and improvement and available for use by future and current students, families, and the general public. Click the links below to access each section:

• Retention and Graduation Rates
• Employment and Future Plans
• Licensure Pass Rates

Most of our data related to student outcomes is from the student information system (SIS), from institutional wide student surveys, from research projects the University participates in, or from vendor sources. 

Retention and Graduation Rates

Retention and graduation rates are calculated annually in fall using the following IPEDS definitions:

Retention Rate - A measure of the rate at which students persist in their educational program at an institution, expressed as a percentage. For four-year institutions, this is the percentage of first-time bachelors (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduates from the previous fall who are again enrolled in the current fall.

Graduation Rate - The rate required for disclosure and/or reporting purposes under Student Right-to-Know Act. This rate is calculated as the total number of completers within 150% of normal time divided by the revised adjusted cohort.

Retention Rates of Degree-seeking Undergraduates 

% refers to percentage return and cohort numbers included in parentheses.

Source reports: IPEDS EF, Fall Enrollment Survey https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/fa/ir/ipedsef

Six Year Graduation Rates of Degree-seeking Undergraduates

IPEDS graduation rate data are collected for full-time, first-time degree and certificate seeking undergraduate students. Below table shows the 6-year graduation with Bachelor's degree and program completion rates. Program completion rates are higher than the Bachelor's degree rates because some of the pre-Pharmacy students enroll in Pharmacy Professional degree without a bachelor's degree. These students are counted in program completion row as they have completed the pre-Pharmacy program.

First-time Full-time Degree-seeking Cohorts

 Six-year graduation rates for first-time full-time students by gender, race/ethnicity, and Title IV status can be found here as reported to IPEDS.

UMKC is a member of Student Achievement Measure (SAM),  a national project to expand the standard metrics of retention and graduation rates to include a retained-anywhere and graduated-anywhere metric.

SAM publishes the retention and graduation rates for first-time and transfer students, including breakouts for key student demographics such as full-time/part-time status, students of color, veteran status, and Pell Grant recipients.

UMKC results for last published cohort could be accessed here on SAM webpage.

 

Employment & Future Plans

UMKC conducts a survey of graduating seniors each term.  Students report their post-graduation plans utilizing the National Association of Colleges & Employers (NACE) first-destination response set.  Additionally, a six-month follow-up is conducted to determine outcomes not captured at the time of graduation. The campus-level summary report is presented below.

Destination of Students Graduating with Baccalaureate Degrees with Six-month Follow-up

For additional information on undergraduate student outcomes or methodology, see the following reports: Graduation Survey Report 2018 and Graduation Survey Report 2017.

The School of Graduate Studies conducted a survey of program chairs and directors to collect information for 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 degree awardee cohorts for the following: licensure, employment in the field, employment in general, and continuing education status for each student. 

		2017-2018	2018-2019
Certificate	Total Collected Responses from Program Directors and Chairs	46	54
	Knowledge Rate	88%	90%
	Employed or Continuing education	85%	91%
	Unknown	15%	9%
Masters	Total Collected Responses from Program Directors and Chairs	589	585
	Knowledge Rate	61%	68%
	Employed or Continuing education	69%	62%
	Unknown	31%	38%
Doctoral Research	Total Collected Responses from Program Directors and Chairs	105	123
	Knowledge Rate	84%	87%
	Employed or Continuing education	97%	89%
	Unknown	3%	11%
Doctoral Professional	Total Collected Responses from Program Directors and Chairs	246	244
	Knowledge Rate	57%	64%
	Employed or Continuing education	98%	87%
	Unknown	2%	13%

 

Program Level Graduate Outcomes for Baccalaureate, Masters, Certificates, and PhD Awardees

Program-level graduate outcomes are available by academic unit for graduate and undergraduate programs. Note that undergraduate and graduate programs used different methods for data collection.

 

Licensure Pass Rates

Selected licensure pass rate information is assembled for Missouri Department of Higher Education as one of our State Performance Funding Measures. The licensure pass rates are reported in November for the previous academic year.

 

School of Dentistry

Dental Hygiene (Clinical CRDTS), Dental Hygiene (NBHE), DDS Clinical (WREB), DDS NBDE I, and DDS NBDE II pass rates.

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