Common Data Set 2020-2021 A. General Information A0 Respondent Information (Not for Publication) Name: Robin Beads Title: Associate Director Office: Institutional Reserch and Assessment 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Leonard Hall 101-C Mailing Address: City/State/Zip/Country: Washington D.C. 20016-8059 Phone: 202-885-6156 Fax: E-mail Address: [email protected] Are your responses to the CDS posted for X Yes reference on your institution's Web site? No If yes, please provide the URL of the corresponding Web page: https://www.american.edu/provost/oira/upload/CDS_American_U_2019-20.pdf A0A We invite you to indicate if there are items on the CDS for which you cannot use the requested analytic convention, cannot provide data for the cohort requested, whose methodology is unclear, or about which you have questions or comments in general. This information will not be published but will help the publishers further refine CDS items. A1 Address Information Name of College/University: American University Mailing Address: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW City/State/Zip/Country: Washington, D.C. 20016 Street Address (if different): City/State/Zip/Country: Main Phone Number: 202-885-1000 WWW Home Page Address: http://www.american.edu/ Admissions Phone Number: 202-885-6000 Admissions Toll-Free Phone Number: Admissions Office Mailing Address: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW City/State/Zip/Country: Washington, D.C. 20016 Admissions Fax Number: 202-885-1025 Admissions E-mail Address: [email protected] If there is a separate URL for your school’s online application, please specify: https://www.american.edu/admissions/apply/index.cfm If you have a mailing address other than the above to which applications should be sent, please provide: A2 Source of institutional control (Check only one): Public X Private (nonprofit) Proprietary A3 Classify your undergraduate institution: X Coeducational college Men's college Women's college A4 Academic year calendar: X Semester Quarter Trimester 4-1-4 Continuous Differs by program (describe): Other (describe): CDS-A Page 1 Common Data Set 2020-2021 A5 Degrees offered by your institution: X Certificate Diploma X Associate Transfer Associate Terminal Associate X Bachelor's X Postbachelor's certificate X Master's Post-master's certificate X Doctoral degree research/scholarship X Doctoral degree – professional practice Doctoral degree -- other A5 Doctoral degree -- other CDS-A Page 2 Common Data Set 2020-2021 B. ENROLLMENT AND PERSISTENCE B1 Institutional Enrollment - Men and Women Provide numbers of students for each of the following categories as of the institution's official fall reporting date or as of October 15, 2020. • Note: Report students formerly designated as “first professional” in the graduate cells. For information on ti t d b d t d t l FULL-TIME thi li k PART-TIME Men Women Men Women Undergraduates Degree-seeking, first-time freshmen 539 1,046 7 15 Other first-year, degree-seeking 58 90 8 13 All other degree-seeking 2,028 3,342 175 190 Total degree-seeking 2,625 4,478 190 218 All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses 195 155 34 58 Total undergraduates 2,820 4,633 224 276 Graduate Degree-seeking, first-time 376 567 277 432 All other degree-seeking 684 1250 855 1471 All other graduates enrolled in credit courses 32 34 19 51 Total graduate 1092 1851 1151 1954 Total all students 3,912 6,484 1,375 2,230 Total all undergraduates 7,953 Total all graduate 6048 GRAND TOTAL ALL STUDENTS 14,001 B2 Enrollment by Racial/Ethnic Category. Provide numbers of undergraduate students for each of the following categories as of the institution’s official fall reporting date or as of October 15, 2020. • Include international students only in the category "Nonresident aliens." • Complete the “Total Undergraduates” column only if you cannot provide data for the first two columns. • Report as your institution reports to IPEDS: persons who are Hispanic should be reported only on the Hispanic line, not under any race, and persons who are non-Hispanic multi-racial should be reported only under "Two or more races " Total Degree-Seeking Degree-Seeking Undergraduates Undergraduates First-Time (both degree- and (include first-time First Year non-degree- first-year) seeking) Nonresident aliens 43 879 1,173 Hispanic/Latino 239 932 949 Black or African American, non-Hispanic 163 605 619 White, non-Hispanic 904 3,980 4,058 American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic 3 4 4 Asian, non-Hispanic 101 512 526 Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, non- Hispanic 2 7 7 Two or more races, non-Hispanic 92 341 344 Race and/or ethnicity unknown 60 251 273 TOTAL 1,607 7,511 7,953 Persistence B3 Number of degrees awarded by your institution from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020. Certificate/diploma 138 Associate degrees Bachelor's degrees 1798 Postbachelor's certificates 79 Master's degrees 1940 Post-Master's certificates Doctoral degrees – research/scholarship 61 Doctoral degrees – professional practice 382 Doctoral degrees – other CDS-B Page 3 Common Data Set 2020-2021 B4-B21: Graduation Rates The items in this section correspond to data elements collected by the IPEDS Web-based Data Collection System’s Graduation Rate Survey (GRS). • For complete instructions and definitions of data elements, see the IPEDS GRS Forms and Instructions for the 2020-2021 Survey. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data/survey-components/9/graduation- rates In the following section for bachelor’s or equivalent programs, please disaggregate the Fall 2013 and Fall 2014 cohorts (formerly CDS B4-B11) into four groups: • Students who received a Federal Pell Grant* • Recipients of a subsidized Stafford Loan who did not receive a Pell Grant • Students who did not receive either a Pell Grant or a subsidized Stafford Loan • Total (all students, regardless of Pell Grant or subsidized loan status) *Students who received both a Federal Pell Grant and a subsidized Stafford Loan should be reported in the "Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant" column. For each graduation rate grid below, the numbers in the first three columns for Questions A-G should sum to the cohort total in the fourth column (formerly CDS B4-B11). For Bachelor’s or Equivalent Programs Please provide data for the Fall 2014 cohort if available. If Fall 2014 cohort data are not available, provide data for the Fall 2013 cohort. Fall 2014 Cohort Recipients of a Students who did Subsidized Total Recipients of a not receive either Stafford Loan Federal Pell a Pell Grant or a who did not (sum of 3 columns Grant subsidized receive a Pell to the left) Stafford Loan Grant A Initial 2014 cohort of first-time, full- time, bachelor's (or equivalent) 361 641 782 1784 degree-seeking undergraduate students B Of the initial 2014 cohort, how many did not persist and did not graduate for the following reasons: • Deceased • Permanently Disabled 0 0 0 0 • Armed Forces • Foreign Aid Service of the Federal Government • Official church missions • Report Total Allowable Exclusions C Final 2014 cohort, after adjusting for 361 641 782 1784 allowable exclusions D Of the initial 2014 cohort, how many completed the program in four years 247 476 586 1309 or less (by Aug. 31, 2018) E Of the initial 2014 cohort, how many completed the program in more than four years but in five years or less 22 29 35 86 (after Aug. 31, 2018 and by Aug. 31, 2019) F Of the initial 2014 cohort, how many completed the program in more than five years but in six years or less 1 6 7 14 (after Aug. 31, 2019 and by Aug. 31, 2020) G Total graduating within six years 270 511 628 1409 (sum of lines D, E, and F) H Six-year graduation rate for 2014 75% 80% 80% 79% cohort (G divided by C) CDS-B Page 4 Common Data Set 2020-2021 Fall 2013 Cohort Recipients of a Students who did Subsidized Total Recipients of a not receive either Stafford Loan Federal Pell a Pell Grant or a who did not (sum of 3 columns Grant subsidized receive a Pell to the left) Stafford Loan Grant Initial 2013 cohort of first-time, full- time, bachelor's (or equivalent) A 1624 degree-seeking undergraduate 297 569 758 students Of the initial 2013 cohort, how many did not persist and did not graduate for the following reasons: • Deceased B • Permanently Disabled 0 0 0 0 • Armed Forces • Foreign Aid Service of the Federal Government • Official church missions • Report Total Allowable Exclusions Final 2013 cohort, after adjusting for C 297 569 758 1624 allowable exclusions Of the initial 2013 cohort, how many D completed the program in four years 217 445 560 1222 or less (by Aug. 31, 2017) Of the initial 2013 cohort, how many completed the program in more than E four years but in five years or less 15 14 23 52 (after Aug. 31, 2017 and by Aug. 31, 2018) Of the initial 2013 cohort, how many completed the program in more than F five years but in six years or less 1 0 5 6 (after Aug. 31, 2018 and by Aug. 31, 2019) Total graduating within six years G 233 459 588 1280 (sum of lines D, E, and F) Six-year graduation rate for 2013 H 78% 81% 78% 79% cohort (G divided by C) B22. Retention Rates Report for the cohort of all full-time, first-time bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in Fall 2019 (or the preceding summer term). * Death * Permanent Disability B22 For the cohort of all full-time bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered your institution as freshmen in Fall 2019 (or the preceding summer term), what percentage was enrolled at your institution as of the date your institution calculates its official enrollment in Fall 2020.