Student Achievement at UL Lafayette

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette recognizes the importance of identifying, evaluating, and publishing goals and outcomes related to student achievement.  Student success is recorded and documented in a variety of formats for different metrics.

Below are interactive dashboards with retention and graduation rates for first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen who enrolled in the fall or prior summer semester at UL Lafayette.

There are options to filter on attributes such as race/ethnicity, gender, low income status, age, and home residency. You can also select a student's starting academic college here at UL Lafayette. The figures presented below display the number and percent of students who were retained and graduated at UL Lafayette as a whole.

Six-year graduation rate of full-time, degree-seeking first-time freshmen

The goal each year is to increase the number of students who earn a baccalaureate degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Same institution graduation rate (IPEDS)

Students who enter the University of Louisiana at Lafayette as part of the cohort and complete their degree from the University within six years.

^{Source: UL Lafayette Office of Institutional Research}

Retention of full-time, degree-seeking first-time freshmen

First fall to second fall

The focus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is to increase the retention rate of students from the first fall semester to the second fall semester to a target retention percentage of 78%.

^{Source: UL Lafayette Office of Institutional Research}

First fall to third fall

The focus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is to increase the retention rate of students from the first fall semester to the third fall semester to a target retention percentage of 65%.

^{Source: UL Lafayette Office of Institutional Research}

Licensure exam summary report

The goal through licensure exams, is for academic departments within the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to prepare students to meet and surpass the benchmarks of their intended discipline.

Learn more about each discipline's licensure exam pass rates:

• Architecture [Works best in Firefox or Chrome]
• Athletic Training, Board of Certification Exam
• Curriculum & Instruction Exam Pass Rates
• Health Information Management
• Nursing
• Speech-Language Pathology

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