Enrollment and Student Achievement

Student Enrollment

AIR calculates official registered enrollment for each semester/term in the academic year. Current enrollment data can be found at the links below, including full-time/part-time status, year in school (calculated by completed credits), gender, and total student FTE.

SPRING 2026

JANUARY TERM 2026

FALL 2025

FALL ENROLLMENT COMPARISON 2021-2025
(including the above criteria as well as race/ethnicity, first-year and transfer cohorts)

Student Persistence

A “first-year cohort” is defined as all full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students entering the institution during the fall term. Luther, like all institutions, uses the first-year cohort student count as the basis for calculating persistence and graduation rates reported to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

FY COHORT PERSISTENCE AND GRADUATION RATES 2016-2025

TRANSFER COHORT PERSISTENCE AND GRADUATION RATES 2018-2025

Graduation Rates

The HEA (Higher Education Act) added a provision requiring that the completion of graduation rates must be disaggregated by:

1. Gender
2. Major racial and ethnic subgroup (as defined in IPEDS)
3. Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant
4. Recipients of a Subsidized Stafford Loan who did not receive a Pell Grant and
5. Students who did not receive either a Pell Grant or a Subsidized Stafford Loan

Follow the links below to these data tables.

6-YEAR GRADUATION RATES BY GENDER AND RACE/ETHNICITY

6-YEAR GRADUATION RATES BY PELL GRANT AND federal direct subsidized LOAN RECipient

NCAA STUDENT ATHLETE GRADUATION RATES REPORT