A Success Story
- Total students in a Fall 2026 LC is 6,853 (5,455 first-year)
- 93.1% of all first-year students are in a learning community
- The one-year retention rate for the Fall 2025 cohort of New Direct from High School (NDHS) learning community students was 11.1 percentage points higher than for non-learning community students
- The six-year graduation rate for the Fall 2020 cohort of NDHS learning community students was 15.2 percentage points higher than for non-learning community students
- 600+ LC peer mentors provide leadership
- 80 learning community options available in fall 2026
- Nearly 100 faculty and staff learning community coordinators
- LC students report higher satisfaction and engagement
- LC students report high levels of engagement on the NSSE benchmarks
- LC program is important for student recruitment
- 132,903 total students have participated in LCs since 1995