![]() ![]() “This is the first time that DePaul entirely pulled out standardized test scores in scholarship.” “We did this because we saw that removing the factor of standardized test scores might help us create more equity in academic preparation, race ethnicity and the scholarship dollars going to students,” Ghosh said. Instead, when determining scholarships for students for fall 2021, the focus is on a student’s high school GPA, their high school performance and the classes they took in high school, according to Ghosh. This year, DePaul removed the effect that standardized testing had on students receiving merit-based scholarships. Ghosh said the university identified a factor between scholarship and yield particularly among African American students last year. When SGA Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Keith Norward asked about efforts to increase DePaul’s racial composition, particularly among African American students, Ghosh explained that the university is facing challenges with yield rate, or the percentage of students that have been accepted to DePaul and plan to enroll.Īccording to Ghosh, the university is not admitting African American students at a lower rate but that the proportion of admitted African American students that enroll at DePaul is “much lower than the average population.” “Just as you saw through the CARES Act money … the additional one-time grant support for students through Covid-19, what we saw is that there might be some opportunities for the university to continue to sustain that past these grants that we got from the government,” Ghosh said. When SGA Executive Vice President of Facility Operations Wesley Janicki asked about ways the university is trying to increase retention rates, Ghosh said the university is focused on several items, including identifying where there are possibilities for attrition during a student’s time at DePaul, attempting to implement a university-wide system geared towards improving how advisers can help students in areas they are struggling and raising money to create microgrant opportunities for continuing students. The number of transfer applications is behind year to date with 2,850 applications. In other enrollment numbers, the university experienced a growth in graduate applications with 4,391 applications, 29 percent ahead year to date. “While we are definitely interested in sure our out-of-state presence grows, that also introduces a risk in the situation because when you’re thinking about out-of-state students, international students, their mobility may be compromised depending on how the pandemic plays out,” Ghosh said.īut according to Ghosh, most of the growth in out-of-state students this year comes from neighboring states, “where we expect that the risk is going to be a little bit less compared to out of state where you have the compromised significant distance away.” Given the increase in out-of-state students, Ghosh said the university is concerned about the “after effects of the pandemic” calling it “an evolving situation.” Moving to fall quarter, DePaul is 16 percent ahead year to date in the total number of applications it has received for its freshman class, with 31,911 applications.Ĭurrently, the university’s number of deposits, or students that intend to enroll, for the freshmen class for fall quarter stands at 1,835 students, 24.2 percent ahead year to date.ĭePaul’s admitted student volume is also ahead 13.6 percent with 22,036 students admitted.Īmong the number of admitted students to DePaul for the upcoming quarter, 43 percent are out-of-state students, up 2 percent from last year while 57 percent are in state. Those include the College of Education and the College of Science and Health, which have both exceeded the budgeted enrollment numbers.ĭespite this increase, Ghosh said DePaul will be behind 585 students in total overall enrollment for this year, resulting in the university not meeting its budgeted total tuition goal for spring quarter by $7,479,361. “There were a couple of stand-out winners though.” ![]() ![]() “Business and CDM obviously carry the largest volume of enrollment at DePaul, so it’s not surprising to see that those are the areas where we’re carrying the biggest negative delta just based on volume,” Ghosh said. Some of DePaul’s colleges have not met DePaul’s budgeted enrollment goals. DePaul’s Vice President of Enrollment Management Soumitra Ghosh joined DePaul’s Student Government Association during its general body meeting Thursday providing members with an update about the university’s enrollment numbers for spring and fall 2021.Īccording to Ghosh, the university will end spring quarter with a total headcount of 19,012 students, which was 97 percent of DePaul’s budgeted goal of 19,597 students but 2.7 percent behind compared to spring quarter last year.īut DePaul’s budgeted goal for this quarter was 3.5 percent lower than that of last year. ![]()
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