Student Success Data

Retention Rates

Fall to Fall Retention Rates

• AY 2019–2020: 62%
• AY 2020–2021: 57%
• AY 2021–2022: 60%
• AY 2022–2023: 66%
• AY 2023–2024: 71%

Retention rates are calculated by looking at first-time, full-time enrolled freshmen in the fall semester, and their enrollment in the next fall semester.

Graduation Rates

Six-Year Graduation Rate
(Students who completed a bachelor’s degree within six years of entering NWOSU)

• 2014 Cohort: 26%
• 2015 Cohort: 31%
• 2016 Cohort: 28%
• 2017 Cohort: 35%
• 2018 Cohort: 30%

Graduation rates are determined by looking at the fall cohort group and their graduation from NWOSU within 6 years. The cohort group are defined as a group of students classified full-time in the fall semester of any institution for the first time at the undergraduate level. Includes students enrolled full-time in the fall term who entered college for the first time in the prior summer term (prior to fall term). Also includes students who enrolled at a college earlier than and before graduation from high school.

Number of Degrees

AY 2019–2020

• Certificates: 36
• Associates: 0
• Bachelors: 332
• Masters: 51
• Doctorates: 0
• Total: 419

AY 2020–2021

• Certificates: 31
• Associates: 0
• Bachelors: 314
• Masters: 53
• Doctorates: 0
• Total: 406

AY 2021–2022

• Certificates: 24
• Associates: 0
• Bachelors: 299
• Masters: 39
• Doctorates: 11
• Total: 373

AY 2022–2023

• Certificates: 27
• Associates: 0
• Bachelors: 316
• Masters: 53
• Doctorates: 7
• Total: 403

AY 2023–2024

• Certificates: 32
• Associates: 0
• Bachelors: 301
• Masters: 54
• Doctorates: 14
• Total: 401

Licensure Pass Rate for Nursing

NCLEX-RN

AY 2020–2021

• Alva: 50%
• Enid: 87.5%
• Woodward: 100%
• Ponca City: 100%

AY 2021–2022

• Alva: 83%
• Enid: 80%
• Woodward: 80%
• Ponca City: 100%

AY 2022–2023

• Alva: 87.5%
• Enid: 87.5%
• Woodward: 66.7%
• Ponca City: 100%

AY 2023–2024

• Alva: 90.9%
• Enid: 100%
• Woodward: 100%
• Ponca City: N/A – no testers

AY 2024–2025

• Alva: 80%
• Enid: 100%
• Woodward: 100%
• Ponca City: N/A – no testers

AANP Family Nurse Practitioner Certification

First-Time Pass Rate

• AY 2020–2021: 100%
• AY 2021–2022: 100%
• AY 2022–2023: 86%
• AY 2023–2024: 91.67%
• AY 2024–2025: 100%