In the summer of 2018, the University Honors Program worked with the Office of Institutional Research to conduct a study of the program. That study consisted of two key components, a review of the program’s demographic data and a matched sample analysis of the program’s students. A matched sample analysis compares a sample of the students in the program to a similar group of students who are not in the program. Both studies look at total numbers and are anonymous at the individual student level.





Table 1. Matched Sample
Cohorts | Matched Variables | Honors n = 175 |
Non-Honors n = 175 |
---|---|---|---|
2013 - 2017 | HSGPA | 3.70 | 3.62 |
SAT | 1029 | 1026 | |
Full-time Yes No |
100% 0% |
100% 0% |
|
FG Status No College College Unknown |
73% 26% 1% |
73% 26% 1% |
|
PELL Recipient Yes No |
56% 44% |
56% 44% |
|
Gender Male Female |
25% 75% |
25% 75% |
|
Ethnicity URM Non-URM |
63% 37% |
63% 37% |
Table 2. Academic Performance Comparisons
Cohort | Group | First-Term GPA | First-Year GPA | First-Year Units Attempted* | First-Year Units Completed* | First-Year Units Completed %* |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | Honors Non-Honors |
3.42 3.22 |
3.50 3.08 |
40.0 35.6 |
39.9 34.7 |
99% 96% |
2014 | Honors Non-Honors |
3.46 3.26 |
3.38 3.20 |
40.3 37.2 |
39.8 36.7 |
98% 97% |
2015 | Honors Non-Honors |
3.53 3.20 |
3.53 3.09 |
39.5 38.0 |
39.1 36.7 |
99% 96% |
2016 | Honors Non-Honors |
3.63 2.90 |
3.59 2.71 |
39.2 35.8 |
38.8 34.2 |
99% 92% |
2017 | Honors Non-Honors |
3.41 3.25 |
3.30 3.13 |
39.8 38.6 |
38.8 37.5 |
97% 96% |
Table 3. Retention and Graduation Rates
Cohort | Group | Count | 2nd Year Retention | 3rd Year Retention | 4th Year Retention | 4-Year Graduation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | Honors Non-Honors |
21 21 |
100% 81% |
100% 81% |
95% 71% |
38% 29% |
2014 | Honors Non-Honors |
21 21 |
95% 90% |
95% 86% |
90% 62% |
- - |
2015 | Honors Non-Honors |
25 25 |
100% 92% |
100% 88% |
- - |
- - |
2016 | Honors Non-Honors |
26 26 |
96% 81% |
- - |
- - |
- - |
2017 | Honors Non-Honors |
82 82 |
- - |
- - |
- - |
- - |