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Student Loan Information

The Cohort Default Rate (CDR) represents the percentage of this institution’s students that failed to make required payments on their federal loans within three years of when they were required to begin repayment of that loan.  The most recent (2015) three-year cohort default rate reported by the U.S. Department of Education for this institution is 1.7%.

Definitions

¹“Number of Students Who Began Program” means the number of students who began the program who are scheduled to complete the program within the reporting calendar year, and includes all the students who remained enrolled after their cancellation period.

²“Students available for graduation” is the number of students who began program minus the number of students who have died, been incarcerated, or been called to active military duty.

³“Graduates” is the number of students who completed the program within 100% of the program length.

⁴“Completion Rate” is the number of Graduates divided by the Number of Students Available for Graduation.

⁵“150% Graduates” is the number of students who completed within 101-150% of the program length.

⁶“150% Completion Rate” is the number of students who completed the program in the reported calendar year within 101-150% of the published program length divided by the Number of Students Available for Graduation in the published program length period.

⁷“Graduates available for employment” means the number of graduates minus the number of graduates unavailable for employment. “Graduates unavailable for employment” means the graduates who, after graduation, die, become incarcerated, are called to active military duty, are international students that leave the United States or do not have a visa allowing employment in the United States, or are continuing their education in an accredited or bureau-approved postsecondary institution.

⁸“Graduates employed in the field” means graduates who are gainfully employed in a single position for which the institution represents the program prepares its graduates within six months after a student completes the applicable educational program. For occupations for which the state requires passing an examination, the period of employment must begin within six months of the announcement of the examination results for the first examination available after a student completes an applicable educational program.

⁹“Placement Rate Employed in the Field” is calculated by dividing the number of graduates gainfully employed in the field by the number of graduates available for employment.

¹⁰Number of Students Taking Exam is the number of students who completed the program within 150% of the published program length and who took the exam in the reported calendar year for the first time.

¹¹Exam Date is the date for the first available exam after the students completed the program.
¹²Passage Rate is calculated by dividing the number of students who passed the exam by the number of graduates who took the reported licensing exam.
¹³Number Who Passed First Exam Taken is the number of students who took and passed the licensing exam in the reported calendar year on the first attempt.

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