A Success Story
- Total students in a Fall 2025 LC is 7,256 (5,862 first year)
- 95.2% of all first-year students are in a learning community
- The one-year retention rate for the Fall 2024 cohort of New Direct from High School (NDHS) learning community students was 4.9 percentage points higher than for non-learning community students
- The six-year graduation rate for the Fall 2019 cohort of NDHS learning community students was four percentage points higher than for non-learning community students
- 600+ LC peer mentors provide leadership
- 79 learning community options available in fall 2025
- 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
- 126,050 total students have participated in LCs since 1995