Prepared by: Institutional Research
A.  GENERAL INFORMATION

A0.  Respondent Information (Not for Publication)

  • Name:   Patricia Ramsey    
  • Title:  Assistant Director   
  • Office: Institutional Research    
  • Mailing Address, City/State/Zip/Country:  Research Pavilion, 12424 Research Parkway, Suite 215, Orlando, FL 32826-3269  
  • Phone:   407.823.6271   
  • Fax:    407.823.4769   
  • E-mail Address:    ramsey@mail.ucf.edu            
  • Are your responses to the CDS posted for reference on your institution's web site?
    yes: no:

    If yes, please provide the URL of the corresponding web page:
    http://www.iroffice.ucf.edu/

A1.  Address Information

  • Name of College or University: University of Central Florida
  • Mailing Address, City/State/Zip: Orlando, FL 32816
  • Street Address (if different), City/State/Zip ........
  • Main Phone: (407) 823-2000
  • WWW Home Page Address: http://www.ucf.edu/
  • Admissions Phone Number: (407) 823-3000
  • Admissions Office Mailing Address: P.O. Box 160111, Orlando, FL 32816-0111
  • Admissions Fax Number: (407) 823-5625
  • Admissions E-mail Address: admission@mail.ucf.edu
  • Admissions WWW Home Page Address:www.ucf.edu/admissions

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

Semester
Quarter
Trimester 
Other
4-1-4
Continuous 
Differs by program 

A5. Degrees offered by your institution

 
Certificate
Diploma
Associate
Transfer
Terminal
Bachelor's
Postbachelor's certificate
Master's
Post-Master's Certificate
Specialist
Doctoral
First professional
First professional certificate

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, 2007.

 
FULL-TIME
PART-TIME
 
Men
Women
Men
Women
Undergraduates
Degree-seeking, first-time freshmen
3,047
3,318
120
128
Other first-year, degree-seeking
619
585
135
119
All other degree-seeking
10,488
12,971
4,319
5,202
Total degree-seeking
14,154
16,874
4,574
5,449
All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses
9
13
110
137
Total undergraduates
14,163
16,887
4,684
5,586
First-professional
First-time, first-professional students
na
na
na
na
All other first-professionals
na
na
na
na
Total first-professional
Graduate
Degree-seeking, first-time
468
588
266

521

All degree-seeking
1047
1,182
914
1,475
All other graduates enrolled in credit courses (Postbac)
2
9
264
441
Total graduate
1,517
1,779
1,444
2,437

Total all undergraduates: 41,320
Total all graduate and professional students: 7,177

Grand total all students:  48,497

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, 2007. Include international students only in the category "Nonresident aliens". Complete the "Total Undergraduates" column only if you cannot provide data for the first twocolumns.

 
DEGREE-SEEKING
FIRST-TIME, FIRST-YEAR
DEGREE-SEEKING
UNDER-GRADUATES
TOTAL
UNDER-GRADUATES
Non-Resident Aliens
69
574
587
Black, non-Hispanic
575
3520
3546
American Indian or Alaskan Native 
35
178
180
Asian or Pacific Islander 
378
2143
2149
Hispanic 
905
5540
5577
White, non-Hispanic
4582
27,784
27,954
Race/ethnicity unknown 
69
1312
1327
Total
6613
41,051
41,320

Persistence

B3. Number of degrees awarded by your institution from July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2007
 

Certificate/Diploma
 Degrees
Associate degrees
207
Bachelor's degrees 
8,630
Postbachelor's certificate
242
* Master's
1,863
Post-master's certificate
Doctoral
212
First professional 
First professional certificate

* Master's Degree Detail

  • 1,839 Master's
  • 24 Specialist's

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 IPEDS GRS instructions and glossary on the 2007 Web-based survey.

For Bachelor's or Equivalent Programs

Please provide data for the fall 2001 cohort if available. If fall 2001 cohort data are not available, provide data for the fall 2000 cohort.

Fall 2000 Cohort

Fall 2001 Cohort

Report for the cohort of full-time first-time bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 2000. Include in the cohort those who entered your institution during the summer term preceding fall 2000.

Report for the cohort of full-time first-time bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered in fall 2001. Include in the cohort those who entered your institution during the summer term preceding fall 2001.

B4.   Initial 2000 cohort of first-time, full-time bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students; total all students: __________________

B4.   Initial 2001 cohort of first-time, full-time bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students; total all students: ___4901_______________

B5.   Of the initial 2000 cohort, how many did not persist and did not graduate for the following reasons: death, permanent disability, or service in the armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government, or official church missions; total allowable exclusions: ______________________

B5.   Of the initial 2001 cohort, how many did not persist and did not graduate for the following reasons: death, permanent disability, or service in the armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government, or official church missions; total allowable exclusions: ____0__________________

B6.   Final 2000 cohort, after adjusting for allowable exclusions: _______________

B6.   Final 2000 cohort, after adjusting for allowable exclusions: __4901__________

          (Subtract question B5 from question B4)

          (Subtract question B5 from question B4)

B7.   Of the initial 2000 cohort, how many completed the program in four years or less (by August 31, 2004): ___________

B7.   Of the initial 2001 cohort, how many completed the program in four years or less (by August 31, 2005): ___1529_____

B8.   Of the initial 2000 cohort, how many completed the program in more than four years but in five years or less (after August 31, 2004 and by August 31, 2005): _________________

B8.   Of the initial 2001 cohort, how many completed the program in more than four years but in five years or less (after August 31, 2005 and by August 31, 2006): __1083___________

B9.   Of the initial 2000 cohort, how many completed the program in more than five years but in six years or less (after August 31, 2005 and by August 31, 2006): ______________

B9.   Of the initial 2001 cohort, how many completed the program in more than five years but in six years or less (after August 31, 2006 and by August 31, 2007): __284_________

B10. Total graduating within six years (sum of questions B7, B8, and B9): ______________

B10. Total graduating within six years (sum of questions B7, B8, and B9): ___2896_____

B11. Six-year graduation rate for 2000 cohort (question B10 divided by question B6): ____________ %

B11. Six-year graduation rate for 2001 cohort (question B10 divided by question B6): ___59.1 %

For Two-Year Institutions:
Sections B12 - B21 do not apply to University of Central Florida (a four year institution).

Retention Rates
Report for the cohort of all full-time, first-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking
undergraduate students who entered in fall 2006 (or the preceding summer term).  The
initial cohort may be adjusted for students who departed for the following reasons:  deceased,
permanently disabled, armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government or official
church missions.  No other adjustments to the initial cohort should be made.

B22.  For the cohort of all full-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate
students who entered your institution as freshmen in fall 2006 (or the preceding summer term),
what percentage was enrolled at your institution as of the date your institution calculates its
official enrollment in fall 2007?  83.9%

C.  FIRST-TIME, FIRST-YEAR (FRESHMAN) ADMISSION

C1. First-time, first-year (freshman) students: : Provide the number of degree-seeking, first-time, first-year students who applied, were admitted, and enrolled (full- or part-time) in fall 2007. Include early decision, early action, and students who began studies during summer in this cohort. Applicants should include only those students who fulfilled the requirements for consideration for admission (i.e., who completed actionable applications) and who have been notified of one of the following actions: admission, nonadmission, placement on waiting list, or application withdrawn (by applicant or institution). Admitted applicants should include wait-listed students who were subsequently offered admission.

Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men applied 
11,487
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women applied 
14,825
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men and women applied
26,312

Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men admitted
5,969
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women admitted
7,282
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men and women admitted
13,251
   
Total full-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) men enrolled 3,047
Total part-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) men enrolled  120
Total full-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) women enrolled  3,318
Total part-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) women enrolled  128
   
Total (full-time & part-time), first-time, first-year (freshman) men and women enrolled  6,613
C2. Freshman wait-listed students
(students who met admission requirements but whose final admission was contingent on space availability)
Do you have a policy of placing students on a waiting list? yes: no:

If yes, please answer the questions below for fall 2007 admissions:

Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list 
1097
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 
498
Number of wait-listed students admitted 
43

Is your waiting list ranked? No

Admission Requirements

C3. High school completion requirement

High school diploma is required and GED is accepted 
High school diploma is requried and GED is not accepted 
High school diploma or equivalent is not required

C4. Does your institution require or recommend a general college preparatory program for degree-seeking students?

Require 
Recommend
Neither require nor recommend
C5. Distribution of high school units required and/or recommended. Specify the distribution of academic high school course units required and/or recommended of all or most degree-seeking students using Carnegie units (one unit equals one year of study or its equivalent). If you use a different system for calculating units, please convert.
  Units required Units recommended
Total academic units
18
English
4
Mathematics
3
Science
3
Of these, units that must be lab 
(2)
Foreign language
2
Social studies
3
History
Academic electives
 3
 
Computer Science    
Visual/Performing Arts
Other (specify)

 


Basis for Selection

C6.  Do you have an open admission policy, under which virtually all secondary school graduates or students with GED equivalency diplomas are admitted without regard to academic record, test scores, or other qualifications). If so, check which applies:

Open admission policy as described above for all students 

Open admission policy as described above for most students, but
 

selective admission for out-of state students 
selective admission to some programs 
other (explain)
 

C7. Relative importance of each of the following academic and nonacademic factors in your first-time, first- year, degree-seeking (freshman) admission decisions.
 

  Very Important  Important  Considered  Not Considered 
Academic      
Rigor of Secondary school record