Graduation rate | National | SSHE | Millersville | Four-year | 29% | 22% | 35% |
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Five-year | 51% | 48% | 59% |
Six-year | 56% | 54% | 62% |
Retention rate | National | SSHE | Millersville |
Four-year | n.a. | 52% | 63% |
Five-year | n.a. | 54% | 64% | Six-year | n.a. | 56% | 64% |
yes% | no% | Did your general education program at Millersville achieve this goal |
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74% | 14% | encourage creativity? |
62% | 24% | develop the communications and inquiry skills needed for understanding and continued growth in the major areas of knowledge? |
67% | 19% | cultivate the ability to reason, to recognize problems, to analyze, and to compose solutions? |
67% | 19% | provide opportunities to practice analytical skills? |
76% | 12% | develop your sense of inquiry and curiosity, of wanting to know for the sake of knowing? |
86% | 5% | acquaint you with the major areas of knowledge in the liberal arts? |
93% | 0% | expose you to disciplines other than an elected major field of study? |
67% | 24% | equip you to explore truth, to appreciate beauty, and to make choices based on responses to truth and beauty? |
81% | 12% | expose you to a variety of ideas and systems of belief and educate you to recognize the difference claims to truth? |
76% | 12% | provide opportunities for you to deal creatively with personal, community, and global concerns? |
76% | 14% | help you to develop the ability to integrate the philosophical, societal, cultural, and physical aspects of life so that you can approach human problems holistically? |
74% | 14% | prepare you to make decisions based on available information? |
N | avg. | std. dev. | statement | |
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5. | 504 | 2.173 | 0.865 | GenEd courses have broadened my understanding of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. [goals f & g, Knowledge & Breadth] |
10. | 501 | 2.459 | 0.949 | GenEd courses have enhanced my sense of inquiry and curiosity. [goal e, Curiosity] |
4. | 504 | 2.462 | 0.895 | GenEd courses have enhanced my critical thinking, analytical reasoning, problem solving, and decision making skills. [goal c, Reasoning] |
17. | 362 | 2.497 | 1.010 | Perspectives courses have demonstrated how different areas of knowledge relate and can be used in complementary ways. [goal k, Wholeness] |
6. | 504 | 2.690 | 0.968 | GenEd courses have encouraged me to view myself and others as valuable individuals who are enhanced by our differences. [goal i, Diversity] |
9. | 502 | 2.813 | 0.923 | GenEd courses have increased my ability to take a comprehensive approach to global concerns. [goal j, Citizenship] |
11. | 502 | 3.052 | 0.975 | GenEd courses have enhanced my appreciation of truth and beauty. [goal h, Truth & Beauty] |