ASU - Engineering enrollment and Degrees Conferred

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An excellent engineering school by any measure. Just be aware freshman class sizes might be big before the cull.

Interesting divergence between enrollment and degrees conferred.

Enrollment:27000
Degrees:5200

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Aren’t you comparing apples to oranges? Enrollment is over multiple years, degrees is not, and enrollment is increasing so degrees will trail enrollment.

Wouldn’t a better metric be the share of Engineering students who graduated within 4, 6 or even 8 years of entering Fulton for the first time?

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Yes. Enrollment needs to be divided by 4 for comparison. Maybe i can edit for clarity.

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Enrollment(Bachelors): 5000
Degrees Conferred(Bachelors): 3100

Just wanted to point out the size of the engineering school and the number who finish the program or degrees awarded.

The class sizes for introductory courses like Calc I are big and gets better in the later years. Needless to say class sizes are big in the freshman year at a lot of schools.

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Since ASU is not that selective at admissions, is it a surprise that some amount of “natural weeding” occurs because some students find that studying engineering is too hard or too much work for them?

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The ‘weed out’ part is not a surprise. The steep increase in enrollment in the last 5 years has lead to large class sizes and housing issues. I wanted to bring attention to that.

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To see class sizes, you can just look at the class schedule. For example:

https://catalog.apps.asu.edu/catalog/classes/classlist?campusOrOnlineSelection=A&catalogNbr=266&honors=F&promod=F&searchType=all&subject=MAT&term=2231