Graduation rates have oscillated over the past nine years. The general trend has been an increase in the five, six, and seven-year graduation rate for first-time freshmen and transfer students. Overall, the graduation rate for transfer students has been at a higher rate than for first-time freshmen. This is true for all UNT transfer student classifications, except for those students who enter UNT as a freshman transfer.

In the past nine years, UNT reached its highest seven-year graduation in 2002 (40% - 1995 cohort). In the past nine years, UNT also reached its highest five-year graduation rate in 2002 (31% - 1997 cohort). The seven-year graduation rate has increased 3 percentage points when comparing the 1990 cohort of first-time freshmen to the 1995 cohort of first-time freshmen.

There is little difference (three percentage points) when comparing seven-year graduation rates of first-time freshmen minority (38.2%) to non-minority (41.1%) students at UNT. The greatest difference between seven-year graduation rates of first-time freshmen occurs when one compares the students by gender or by race and gender. There is a 12 percentage point difference between first-time freshmen female (45.8%) when compared to the seven-year graduation rate to first-time freshmen males (33.6%). Worse, there is a 26 percentage point difference between African American females and African American males when comparing seven-year graduation rates. Additionally, there is a 16 percentage point difference between Hispanic females and Hispanic males. The highest seven-year graduation rate for first-time freshmen is for African American females at 51.8%. The lowest seven-year graduation rate for first-time freshmen is for African American males at 25.6%.

Seven Year Graduation Rate for First-time Freshmen

Seven Year Graduation Rate

Classification	Male	Female	All
F/T Freshmen	33.6%	45.8%	40.4%
African Amer.	25.6%	51.8%	38.2%
Caucasian	35.3%	45.6%	41.1%
Hispanic	29.7%	45.9%	37.0%

As stated in the beginning, the highest graduation rates occur for sophomore, junior, and senior transfer students to UNT. The six-year graduation rate for the 1995 cohort of sophomore transfer student to UNT is 50.4%. A similar difference as seen in the comparison of first-time freshmen was found for this group when comparing them by gender and by race. There was a six percentage point difference when compared by race and a seven percentage point difference when compared by gender.

Six Year Graduation Rate for Sophomore Transfers

Transfer Six Year Graduation Rate

Classification	Male	Female	All
Sophomore	45.5%	57.6%	51.6%
African Amer.	43.9%	53.7%	48.8%
Caucasian	46.6%	59.5%	53.2%
Hispanic	51.1%	45.2%	48.3%

The greatest difference for transfer six-year graduation rate was found when comparing African American sophomore transfers by gender (17%). However, the highest six-year graduation rate was found among Hispanic females (63.2%). The lowest six-year graduation rate for sophomore transfers at UNT was for African American males at 27.1%.

In conclusion, it appears that efforts to increase graduation rates at UNT are being effective for some and less effective for others. Further studies will need to be conducted to help determine what actions will need to be taken at UNT to increase graduation rates for especially male minorities and male students in general.