Eight-Year Graduation Rate (Student Achievement Measure-1):
Graduation rates are commonly measured at 150% of normal time (six years for a four-year baccalaureate degree), although it is increasingly common to measure graduation rates at 200% of normal time as well (eight years for a four-year baccalaureate degree). Graduation rates, while not a perfect measure, are important because they provide an insight into how many students are finishing their degrees in a timely manner once they enroll. Both rates for The Baptist College of Florida are reported below.
The 8-year graduation rate reported below is the IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) Outcome Measures 8-year Award Rate. This number represents a large cross-section of students who began their studies in a particular cohort year. This graduation rate tracks the progress of first-time, non-first-time, full-time, and part-time degree-seeking students who began their studies in a particular cohort year.
This rate is The Baptist College of Florida's selected SACSCOC (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges) Key Student Completion Indicator or “KSCI.”
Institutional Goal
The Baptist College of Florida has set a goal of maintaining a minimum 34% graduation rate as measured by the IPEDS Outcome Measures Eight Year Award Rate for undergraduate students. The 34% minimum goal for the eight-year graduation rate is based on the average of the 2016-2020 IPEDS Outcome Measures graduation rates for The Baptist College of Florida (46%). That average was then reduced by 25% to arrive at a figure that would account for fluctuating rates of student achievement, unpredicted economic factors impacting student perseverance, family and health complications, and any other mitigating factors to student success that might impact students in a smaller, open-admission institution of higher learning such as The Baptist College of Florida.
Conversely, The Baptist College of Florida has set an aspirational goal of reaching a 58% graduation rate as measured by the IPEDS Outcome Measures Eight Year Award Rate for undergraduate students. The 58% aspirational goal for the eight-year graduation rate is based on that same average of the 2016-2020 Outcome Measures graduation rates for The Baptist College of Florida, but was then increased by 25% to arrive at a figure that would demonstrate significant achievement for a smaller, open-admission institution of higher learning such as The Baptist College of Florida.
Eight-Year Graduation Rate for the 2020-2021 Academic Year:
(*Key Student Completion Indicator) The most current 8-year graduation rate (200% of normal time, based on the 2012 Freshman cohort) is 48%.