Student Body

The Office of Institutional Research and the Student Records Office at WCC collects and publishes data on our graduation/retention rates and student body diversity for graduates as required by the Department of Education.

The data are updated annually in April.

Graduation and Retention Rates

Students beginning in Fall 2020:

Graduation Rate: Percentage of students who enrolled as first time, full-time students in a WCC program and graduated from WCC was 30 percent.  Additional graduation/transfer data available at the IPEDS Data Center (www.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/). 

Transfer Rate:  Percentage of students who enrolled as first-time, full-time students in a WCC program and transferred to any college was 21 percent.

Retention Rate: Of the first time, full time WCC students who did not graduate or transfer, 29% continued to enroll at WCC. Additional retention data available at the IPEDS Data Center (www.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/).

Graduation/Transfer rates (150%) for First-Time, Full Time (Fall 2020 FTIAC Cohort) by ethnicity, gender, Federal Pell and Loan Recipients  

 

Graduation/Transfer rates: FTIAC students beginning in Fall 2020

Ethnicity Grad Rate Transfer Rate

Asian

35%

35%

Black/African American

19%

24%

Hispanic

24%

22%

American Indian/Alaskan Native

0%

0%

U.S. Non-resident

55%

9%

Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander

0%

0%

White

34%

20%

2 or more

20%

22%

Unknown

8%

33%

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 Note: Ethnicity percentages based upon known data

Gender Grad Rate Transfer Rate
Female 33% 22%
Male 27% 21%
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Recipient of Financial Aid Grad Rate Transfer Rate
Pell 23% 18%
Stafford Loan-No Pell 44% 12%
No Pell or Stafford Loan Received 34% 19%
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Student body diversity: Fall 2023

Ethnicity Full-time Part-time Total

Asian

5%

6%

6%

Black/African American

14%

15%

15%

Hispanic

9%

7%

8%

American Indian/Alaskan Native

0.2%

0.4%

0.3%

U.S. Nonresident

3%

2%

3%

Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander

0.1%

0.1%

0.1%

White

59%

59%

59%

2 or more

7%

6%

6%

Unknown

4%

4%

4%

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Gender Full-time Part-time Total
Female 49% 55% 54%
Male 51% 45% 46%
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Recipient of Financial Aid Full-time Part-time Total
Pell 35% 23% 26%
Stafford Loan-No Pell 7% 5% 5%
No Pell or Stafford Loan Received 58% 73% 69%
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Employment Data

WCC surveys alumni 6-9 months after graduation.  Of the students who graduated from WCC between August 1, 2022 and July 31, 2023:

  • 74.1% reported being employed at the time of the survey (45.5% full-time and 28.6% part-time)
  • 48.1% reported that their employment was related to the program from which they graduated
  • 56.3% of respondents had enrolled in another academic program (44.4% at a 4-year institution and 11.9% at a 2-year institution, including WCC)

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