Student Attrition

Student Attrition

ARC-PA Student Attrition

*Attrition rate calculation: Number of students who attritted from cohort divided by the entering class size.

**Graduation rate: Number of cohort graduates divided by the entering class size.

Please note that delayed graduates are not accounted for in the graduate number or graduation rate.

Please note that the didactic year is year 1 of the program and the clinical year is year 2 of the program.

Class of 2018:

• 2 withdrawals during the didactic year
• 3 decelerations during the didactic year
• 3 decelerations during the clinical year resulted in a delay in graduation, May 2019
• 3 LOA (leave of absence) during the didactic year

Class of 2019:

• 2 dismissals during the didactic year
• 2 LOA during the didactic year

*Entering class size was comprised of 125 students, plus one student who returned to year 1 of the program from a LOA in summer of 2018. A student dismissal occurred in year 1 of the program in spring of 2018. Therefore, the entering class size never exceeded 125 students at any one given time.

Class of 2020:

• 1 withdrawal during the didactic year
• 4 decelerations during the clinical year resulted in a delay in graduation, May 2021
• 4 LOA didactic year
• 2 LOA clinical year resulted in a delay in graduation, May 2021
• 3 Dismissals didactic year
• 1 Dismissal clinical year

Class of 2021:

• 5 withdrawals during the didactic year
• 1 deceleration during the didactic year
• 2 decelerations during the clinical year resulted in a delay graduation, May 2022
• 3 LOA didactic year
• 5 LOA clinical year resulted in delay in graduation, May 2022
• 1 dismissal clinical year

*Entering class size was comprised of 125 students in year 1, plus one student on a LOA who returned in year 2 of the program with a new graduation year of 2021. For the class of 2021, the returned student makes the class size of 126 students at the start of year 2 but an entering class size of 125 at the start of year 1.

Class of 2022:

• 3 withdrawals during the didactic year
• 2 decelerations during didactic year
• 2 decelerations during the clinical year resulted in delay in graduation, May 2023
• 1 LOA didactic year
• 4 LOA clinical year resulted in delay in graduation, May 2023
• 1 LOA extension resulted in restarting the program with the class of 2024
• 0 dismissal didactic year
• 0 dismissal clinical year