Student Access and Success
Tennessee and the nation need more college-educated citizens to provide the workforce for the 21st century.
Tennessee lags behind the nation in the percentage of adults with college degrees because of lower numbers pursuing college education and lower rates of graduation among those who enter college.
Each campus of the university must improve the breadth and depth of its applicant pool by working more effectively with Tennessee’s P–12 educational system and must offer attractive options to students to provide the broadest possible access to applicants from Tennessee and beyond.
Each campus must increase the number of students pursuing college degrees and enhance graduation rates through improving services and interventions and curricular and cocurricular environments.
| Benchmarks | Baseline FY 2004-05 |
FY 2005-06 |
FY 2006-07 |
FY 2007-08 |
goal 2009-10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access | |||||
Enrollment at UT campuses (headcount) |
42,597 | 43,688 | 44,796 | 46,700 | |
| Enrollment of underrepresented groups (%) |
22.5% | 23.1% | 23.1% | 25% | |
| Student financial need met by campuses (%) |
71% | 71% | 74% | 80% | |
| Success | |||||
| Graduation rate (%) |
57.9% | 58.0% | 59.7% | 65% | |
| Graduation rate for underrepresented groups (%) |
53.6% | 52.4% | 54.7% | 61% | |
| Graduated in STEM majors (%) |
17.1% | 17.2% | 17.4% | 20% | |
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