Enrollment, Persistence, and Graduation

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. Also available for viewing are the fall semester enrollments for all Iowa colleges and universities (when available).

FAll 2024

Summer Session II 2024

Summer Session I 2024

Spring 2024

Fall 2023

Summer Session II 2023

Summer Session I 2023

Spring 2023

January Term 2023

Fall 2022

Fall Enrollment Comparison 2020-2024
(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 2014-2023

Transfer Cohort Persistence and Graduation Rates 2016-2023

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 Stafford Loan Receipt