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AUA Factbook 2019-2020 Office of Institutional Research and Assessment ira.aua.am [email protected] Revised December 9, 2019 Revised October 7, 2020 Table of Contents Overview .............................................................................................................. 5 Description of Data ............................................................................................. 7 Facts About AUA – A Chronology .................................................................. 10 Enrollment ......................................................................................................... 17 Undergraduate ....................................................................................................................... 17 Table 1.1. Enrollment for Fall 2019 ............................................................................................... 17 Table 1.2. Enrollment for Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 .................................................................... 18 Table 1.3. Enrollment by Gender and Citizenship for Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 ........................ 19 Graduate................................................................................................................................ 20 Table 1.4. Enrollment for Fall 2019 ............................................................................................... 20 Table 1.5. Enrollment by Gender and Citizenship for Fall 2019 ................................................... 21 Application/Admissions/Enrollment ............................................................... 22 Undergraduate ....................................................................................................................... 22 Table 2.1. Application/Admissions/Enrollment for Fall 2019 ....................................................... 22 Table 2.2. Application/Admissions/Enrollment by citizenship for Fall 2019 ................................ 23 Graduate................................................................................................................................ 24 Table 2.3. Application/Admissions/Enrollment for Fall 2019 ....................................................... 24 Table 2.4. Application/Admissions/Enrollment by citizenship for Fall 2019 ................................ 25 Test Scores ......................................................................................................... 26 Test Scores of Admits ............................................................................................................. 26 Table 3.1. Test Scores for Fall 2019 Admits – Undergraduate and Graduate............................... 26 International Students ...................................................................................... 28 Undergraduate ....................................................................................................................... 28 Table 4.1. Enrolled Undergraduate International Students by Gender, Degree program and Country of Citizenship for Fall 2019 .............................................................................................. 28 Graduate................................................................................................................................ 29 Table 4.2. Enrolled Graduate International students by Gender, Degree program and Country of Citizenship for Fall 2019 ................................................................................................................ 29 RoA Students ..................................................................................................... 30 Undergraduate and Graduate Students ................................................................................... 30 Table 5.1. Enrolled, Degree-Seeking RoA Students by Gender, Study Level and Region (Marz) They Come from, Fall 2019 ........................................................................................................... 30 Table 5.2. Enrolled, Degree-Seeking RoA Students by Program and Region (Marz) They Come from, Fall 2019 .............................................................................................................................. 31 2 Students Educational Background .................................................................. 33 Undergraduate ....................................................................................................................... 33 Table 6.1. Geographic region of institutions from which 2019 Fall Undergraduate Admitted and Enrolled Students Came ................................................................................................................ 33 Table 6.2. Institutions from which 2019 Fall Undergraduate Admitted and Enrolled Students Came ............................................................................................................................................. 33 Graduate................................................................................................................................ 38 Table 6.3. Institutions from which 2019 Fall Graduate Admitted and Enrolled Students Came .. 38 Students’ Academic Performance ................................................................... 40 Undergraduate ....................................................................................................................... 40 Table 7.1. Undergraduate students’ academic performance for Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 ....... 40 Graduate................................................................................................................................ 41 Table 7.2. Graduate students’ academic performance for Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 ................ 41 Degrees Granted ................................................................................................ 42 Undergraduate ....................................................................................................................... 42 Table 8.1. Number of Degrees Granted by Academic Programs- Undergraduate ....................... 42 Graduate................................................................................................................................ 43 Table 8.2. Number of Degrees Granted by Academic Programs – Graduate and Certificates ..... 43 Time to Degree....................................................................................................................... 44 Table 8.3. Time to Degree University-Wide - Undergraduate ...................................................... 44 Cohort Graduation and Retention Rate ......................................................... 45 Undergraduate ....................................................................................................................... 45 Table 9.1. Cohort (2013-2019) Graduation and Retention Rate – Undergraduate ...................... 45 Graduate................................................................................................................................ 46 Table 10.1. Cohort (2014-2019) Graduation and Retention Rate – Graduate ............................. 46 Table 10.2. Cohort (2014-2019) Graduation and Retention Rate – Graduate (cont’d) ................ 47 Student Tuition Support ................................................................................... 48 Table 11. Student Tuition Support – Undergraduate and Graduate ............................................ 48 Faculty and Staff ............................................................................................... 51 Faculty ................................................................................................................................... 51 Table 12.1. Faculty ........................................................................................................................ 51 Table 12.2. Faculty Composition by Gender, Citizenship, and Education .................................... 52 Table 12.3. Faculty Composition by Country of Highest Degree .................................................. 53 Table 12.4. Student-Faculty Ratio ................................................................................................. 54 Staff ....................................................................................................................................... 55 3 Table 12.5. Staff ............................................................................................................................ 55 Alumni ................................................................................................................ 56 Table 13. Alumni – Graduate (1993-2019) and Undergraduate (2016-2019) .............................. 56 AUA Extension .................................................................................................. 57 Table 14.1. AUA Extension Courses .............................................................................................. 57 Table 14.2. AUA Extension Instructors.......................................................................................... 58 AUA’s AGBU Papazian Library ..................................................................... 59 Table 15. AUA’s AGBU Papazian Library ....................................................................................... 59 Information and Communications Technologies Services ............................ 60 Table 16. Information and Communication Technologies Services .............................................. 60 Regional
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