Swarthmore College Common Data Set 2020 - 2021 Offi ce of Institutional Research Swarthmore College Common Data Set 2020 - 2021 Table of Contents Section Page A. General Information ................................................................................................. 1 B. Enrollment and Persistence ....................................................................................... 2 C. First-Time, First-Year (Freshman) Admission ............................................................. 7 D. Transfer Admission................................................................................................ 17 E. Ac ademic Offerings and Policies ............................................................................. 20 F. Student Life .......................................................................................................... 21 G. Annual Expenses.................................................................................................... 23 H. Financial Aid*........................................................................................................ 25 I. Instructional Faculty and Class Size ......................................................................... 33 J. Degrees Conferred ................................................................................................. 36 K. Supplemental Information 1. Detail on Degrees conferred (including most popular majors) ............................... 37 2. Degree Programs, sorted by name .................................................................... 38 3. Degree Programs, sorted by CIP Code ............................................................. .39 4. Athletics......................................................................................................... 40 Common Data Set General Definitions ............................................................................ 41 *Common Data Set Financial Aid Definitions ................................................................... 47 Common Data Set 2020-2021 GENERAL INFORMATION A1. Address Information Name of College or University: Swarthmore College Mailing Address, City/State/Zip/Country: 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081 Street Address (if different), City/State/Zip/Country: Main Phone Number: 610-328-8000 WWW Home Page Address: www.swarthmore.edu Admissions Phone Number: 610-328-8300 Admissions Toll-free Number: Admissions Office Mailing Address, City/State/Zip/Country: 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081 Admissions Fax Number: 610-328-8580 Admissions E-mail Address: [email protected] If there is a separate URL for your school’s online application, please specify: Common Application: commonapp.org OR Coalition Application: mycoalition.org If you have a mailing address other than the above to which applications should be sent, please provide: ⇒ A2. Source of institutional control (check one only): ☐ Public ☒ Private (nonprofit) ☐ Proprietary A3. Classify your undergraduate institution: ☒ Coeducational college ☐ Men’s college ☐ Women’s college A4. Academic year calendar If your academic year has changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, please indicate as other below. ☒ Semester ☐ 4-1-4 ☐ Quarter ☐ Continuous ☐ Trimester ☐ Differs by program (describe): Click or tap here to enter text. ☐ Other (describe): A5. Degrees offered by your institution ☐ Certificate ☐ Post-bachelor’s certificate ☐ Diploma ☐ Master’s ☐ Associate ☐ Post-master’s certificate ☐ Transfer ☐ Doctoral degree research/scholarship ☐ Terminal ☐ Doctoral degree – professional practice ☒ Bachelor’s ☐ Doctoral degree – other Swarthmore College Office of Institutional Research--Page 1 of 47 Common Data Set 2020-2021 B. ENROLLMENT AND PERSI STENCE 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 reporting study abroad students please see: This Document at NCES.GOV ***NOTE: Per IPEDS guidelines, study abroad students are EXCLUDED. In Fall 2020, there we re two students studying abroad. ***In Fall 2020, enrollments and enrollment patterns were impacted by COVID-19 For the Fall 2020 semester, Swarthmore invited First Year students, Sophomores, new Transfers, and Resident Assistants to live on campus (although no student was required to return to campus); those with special circumstances were also able to petition to live on campus. Students could also choose to continue learning remotely or to pause their Swarthmore education. FULL-TIME PART-TIME Men Women Men Women Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Students Degree-seeking, first-time freshmen st udent s 186 187 0 0 Other first-year, degree-seeking st udent s 0 0 0 0 All other degree-seeking undergraduat e st udent s 515 547 0 0 Total degree-s eeking undergraduate students 701 734 0 0 All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses 0 2 0 0 Undergraduate Students 701 736 0 0 Graduate Students Graduate Students Degree-seeking, first-time 0 0 0 0 All other degree-seeking 0 0 0 0 All other graduates enrolled in credit courses 0 0 0 0 Total Graduate Students 0 0 0 0 Total All Students 701 736 0 0 Total All Undergraduates: 1,437 Total All Graduate Students: 0 Grand Total All Students: 1,437 Swarthmore College Office of Institutional Research--Page 2 of 47 Common Data Set 2020-2021 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." ***NOTE: Per IPEDS guidelines, study abroad students are EXCLUDED. In Fall 2020, there were two students studying abroad. ******In Fall 2020, enrollments and enrollment patterns were impacted by COVID-19 For the Fall 2020 semester, Swarthmore invited First Year students, Sophomores, new Transfers, and Resident Assistants to live on campus (although no student was required to return to campus); those with special circumstances were also able to petition to live on campus. Students could also choose to continue learning remotely or to pause their Swarthmore education. **NOTE: The last column is completed contrary to instructions because some guidebooks that use this form Degree-seeking Total Degree-seeking will otherwise insert blanks into their description of the Undergraduates Undergraduates Firs t-time First College. Please note that it is NOT a total of the first two year (include first-time (both degree- and columns, but is the total full- and part-time, degree- and first-year) non-degree-seeking) non-degreeseeking Nonresident aliens 53 216 216 Hispanic/Latino 52 188 188 Black or African American, non-Hispanic 30 115 117 White, non-Hispanic 109 474 474 American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic 0 4 4 Asian, non-Hispanic 83 256 256 Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic 0 2 2 Two or more races, non-Hispanic 36 128 128 Race and/or ethnicity unknown 10 52 52 Total 373 1,435 1,437 Swarthmore College Office of Institutional Research--Page 3 of 47 Common Data Set 2020-2021 B3. Persistence Number of degrees awarded by your institution from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020. AWARD TYPE # AWARDED Certificate/diploma: Associate degrees: Bachelor’s degrees: 431 Post-bachelor’s certificates: Master’s degrees: Post-master’s certificates: Doctoral degrees – research/scholarship: Doctoral degrees – professional practice: Doctoral degrees – other: 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 c ohorts (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). (See next page) Swarthmore College Office of Institutional Research--Page 4 of 47 Common Data Set 2020-2021 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. Per CDS instructions, Fall 2014 cohort information is available and provided below; Fall 2013 cohort information can be found in the 2019-20