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Western Illinois University
Educational Opportunity Details
Updated July 2012

For the Macomb campus, six-year graduation rates were reported as the national reporting standard (i.e., 150% of the normal time-to-degree) for institutions that admit new freshmen.

 

For the Quad Cities campus, four-year graduation are reported. Since the Quad Cities admits undergraduates as juniors, four years is the 150% measure of the normal time-to-degree.

 

 

First-Year Retention Rate for 2010 Cohort and Graduation Rate for 2005 Cohort

	WIU	Low	Average	High
Illinois Public University Subset
First-Year Retention	71.4%	64.0%	71.9%	79.0%
Six-Year Graduation Rate	53.4%	23.0%	50.2%	62.0%
All Illinois Public Universities
First-Year Retention	71.4%	64.0%	75.9%	85.1%
Six-Year Graduation Rate	53.4%	23.0%	55.9%	82.5%

 The Illinois Public University Subset includes Eastern Illinois University, Illinois State University, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, University of Illinois-Springfield, and Western Illinois University.

The 12 public Illinois Universities are Chicago State University, Eastern Illinois University, Governors State University, Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois University, Northern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville and Carbondale), the University of Illinois (Chicago, Springfield, and Urbana/Champaign), and Western Illinois University.

 

 

 

 

Western compares its performance to the mean of all other regional comprehensive universities participating in the survey.

The National Survey of Student Engagement measures student performance on:

• Academic challenge or the degree to which students perceive the importance of academic effort and setting high performance standards.
• Academic and collaborative learning or measures of how intensely students were involved in their educational process and whether they applied what they have learned to different settings.
• Student-faculty interactions or the degree to which students interacted with faculty inside and outside the classroom.
• Opportunities for enriching educational experiences or the degree to which students engaged in curricular and co-curricular activities beyond classroom instruction. It also measures the extent to which students report exposure to different ideals and cultures other than their own.
• Supportive environment or a measure of diversity, engagement, and inclusiveness.

Values at or above 100% in the table below (the University's goal) show that reported student satisfaction is higher at Western than peer institutions.

Western has moved to a multiyear administration given the stability of responses over time.

 

 

Number of Course Sections, Percent of Classes Less Than 30,
and Student-Faculty Ratios

Fiscal Years 2007 to 2011

	2008	2009	2010	2011
Macomb Campus
Number of Sections	5,134	5,143	4,982	4,967
Percent of Classes Less Than 30	78.1%	80.9%	81.6%	80.2%
Student-to-Faculty Ratio	16:1	16:1	16:1	16:1
Quad Cities Campus
Number of Sections	534	603	627	432
Percent of Classes Less Than 30	93.1%	94.4%	95.2%	97.7%
Student-to-Faculty Ratio	12:1	12:1	12:1	12:1

 

Student-to-Faculty Ratios 

Fiscal Year 2010

	WIU	Low	Average	High
Illinois Public University Subset	16:1	13:1	16:1	17:1
All Illinois Public Universities	16:1	13:1	16:1	17:1

 

 

 

Percent of Alumni Donations

Fall 2010

	WIU	Low	Average	High
Illinois Public Universities Subset	13%	1%	7%	13%
All Illinois Public Universities	13%	1%	7%	13%

 

Benchmark of Alumni Donations

Fall 2010

Augustana	31%
Western Kentucky	14%
Western Illinois	13%
Wisconsin-Whitewater	13%
Northern Iowa	12%
Texas A&M-International	11%
Appalachian State	10%
St. Ambrose	10%
College of Charleston	10%
Missouri State	9%
North Carolina-Wilmington	NA
Eastern Illinois	8%
Illinois-Springfield	8%
James Madison	9%
Sam Houston State	8%
Western Washington	7%
Montclair State	6%
Central Washington	5%
California State-Chico	5%
SIU-Edwardsville	5%