PROGRESSION, RETENTION, AND GRADUATION RATES OF THE OCCUPATIONAL
THERAPY PROGRAM:
PROGRESSION:
Cohort
Beginning
Fall of:
Number of
students
FT
2008
2009
30
26
PT
0
3
Number of
Students
Completing
Program
Within published
length of program
FT
24
MOS
PT
36
MOS.
27
24
-3
Number of
Students
Completing the
PROGRAM
WITHIN 150%
of published
length of
program
FT
3
2
PT
---
2010
40
n/a
36
-1
n/a
TOTALS
96
3
87
3
6
0
Aggregate Retention Rate for Past Three Years (classes
graduating in 2010, 2011, 2012)
Retention Rate
Graduation
Rate
FT
PT
FT
PT
100%
100%
n/a
100%
100%
100%
93%
n/a
93%
97%
n/a
100
%
n/a
97%
RETENTION:
Retention is the measure of the rate at which students persist in their educational program,
calculated as the percentage of students on the roster, after the add period, from the beginning
of the previous academic year who are again enrolled at, or graduated prior to, the beginning of
the subsequent academic year.
For the three most recent calendar years (January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2012), the Graduate
Program in Occupational Therapy at Sacred Heart University has had a retention rate of 97%.
GRADUATION:
Graduation rate is the total number of students who graduated from a program within 150% of
the published length of the program divided by the number of students on the roster who started
in the program.
Data demonstrates our students’ success rate. Of the students who began the Occupational
Therapy at Sacred Heart University for the three most recent calendar years (2008, 2009,
2010), 97% graduate with a Master of Science Degree in Occupational Therapy.