Bryan College evaluates student achievement consistent with its mission: “Educating students to become servants of Christ to make a difference in today’s world.” Various criteria will include graduation, retention, job placement rates, general education testing, major field testing, and nationally-normed self-report studies. Data are analyzed as part of institutional Effectiveness and are reviewed by appropriate faculty, staff, and administration.
Graduation Rates are collected by the Office of the Registrar and provided to appropriate administrators for decision-making purposes.
Current 6-year graduation rate: 46 % *
Average 6-year graduation rate: 54 %
*Some are still enrolled or completing requirements.
Retention rates are collected by the Office of the Registrar and provided to appropriate administrators for decision-making purposes.
Freshman retention rate Fall 2015-Fall 2016 (traditional only): 79 %
Average Freshman retention rate past five years (traditional students only): 69 %
As a liberal arts institution Bryan College takes great interest in general education competencies of graduating seniors. Each year Bryan administers the ETS Proficiency Profile to measure general education knowledge and skills. Charts with the most recent results are available on pages 8-10 and 22-23 of the Student Outcomes Manual.
The Career Services Office at Bryan College surveys graduating seniors each year to ascertain their employment status, prospects, and intentions, as well as their graduate school intentions.
2016 survey: 92 % of respondents were employed or not employed by choice.
Graduate school: 80 % of our graduates have been accepted into their first or second choice graduate schools.
Many academic programs use national major field tests (standardized across an entire area of study, regardless of the institution), if available and compatible with the unique distictives and worldview of the program, as part of outcomes assessment, overseen by the Office of Institutional Effectiveness (IE) at Bryan College. Bryan uses several major tests and the results compare favorably with national scores.
| Literature in English | 168, 79th percentile |
| Music | 157, 78th percentile |
| Math | 153 |
| Psychology | 168, 91st percentile |
| Biology | 175, 99th percentile |
| History (ACAT) | 518, 57th percentile |
| Business | 160, 94th percentile |
Bryan College uses the Student Satisfaction Inventory (SSI), a national survey by Ruffalo Noel Levitz, to gage various types and levels of “student engagement”, including level of academic challenge, student-faculty interaction, and supportive campus environment.
Some of the survey results, based on specific questions, that demonstrate high satisfaction levels of Bryan College students when compared to national four-year private colleges are:
