The University of Memphis
Office of Institutional Research
ATTENDANCE SCHEDULE – Students are categorized
according to whether they enrolled for evening and/or weekend courses in the current term.
Groupings are:
1) students taking only weekend courses;
2) students taking at least one weekend course;
3) students taking only evening courses; and
4) students taking at least one evening course.
CLASSIFICATION - The student's level. Students pursuing a
degree/certificate are classified according to their progress within that program.
Students not working on degrees are classified according to the highest level of credit
they are seeking (graduate or undergraduate).
Freshman - 0 - 24 earned hours
Sophomore - 25 - 54 earned hours
Junior - 55 - 84 earned hours
Senior - 85 or more earned hours
Undergraduate Non Degree
Masters
Doctoral Pre-Candidate - Primarily fulfilling formal course requirements
Doctoral Candidate - Primarily engaged in independent study/research/work
1st yr professional - 1st year Law
2nd yr professional - 2nd year Law
3rd yr professional - 3rd year Law
Graduate Non Degree
CONTINUING STUDENTS - See REGISTRATION TYPE.
CREDIT HOURS - Attempted credit hours for current semester. Only traditional-credit hours are counted (i.e. audits, etc. are excluded.)
DOCTORAL STUDENTS - See CLASSIFICATION.
ETHNICITY - Race classification as mandated by IPEDS. Non-US-citizens are classified as "Foreign" regardless of their ethnic group.
EVENING COURSES – See ATTENDANCE SCHEDULE.
FIRST-TIME STUDENTS – See REGISTRATION TYPE.
FOREIGN STUDENTS - See ETHNICITY. See also GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN.
FRESHMEN - See CLASSIFICATION.
FTE - Equals the student's attempted hours divided by the number of hours considered to be full-time for a student at that level (15 hrs for undergraduate, 12 hours for graduate).
FULL-TIME / PART-TIME STATUS - IPEDS criteria: Full-time for undergraduate students is 12 or more hours. For graduate students, full-time is 9 or more hours.
GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN – The location of the student’s
permanent address. Categories are Shelby County, the rest of western Tennessee, the rest
of Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, the rest of the USA, and other countries (each
category excludes all previous categories).
The category "Western Tennessee" includes the following counties: Benton,
Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardiman, Hardin, Haywood,
Henderson, Henry, Lake, Lauderdale, Madison, McNairy, Obion, Tipton, & Weakley.
JUNIORS - See CLASSIFICATION.
MASTERS STUDENTS - See CLASSIFICATION.
NON-DEGREE STUDENTS - See CLASSIFICATION.
PART-TIME STUDENTS - see FULL-TIME / PART-TIME STATUS.
PROFESSIONAL (LAW) STUDENTS - See CLASSIFICATION.
RACE - See ETHNICITY.
READMITTED STUDENTS – See REGISTRATION TYPE.
REGISTRATION TYPE – Describes the enrollment status of student.
1st Time at Institution or 1st Time Graduate Student - Student not previously enrolled in courses at any institution of higher education OR student not previously enrolled for work creditable towards an advanced degree at any university, but is now enrolled in work creditable toward such a program.
Transfer - Student attended another institution from which credit is acceptable toward the degree/certificate on which he or she is working, and student has not previously attended The University of Memphis.
Continuing - Student was enrolled at The University of Memphis in the previous term (or in the previous spring, if the current term is fall).
Readmit – Student has previously attended The University of Memphis, but is not a continuing student.
Transient - Student is regularly enrolled and in good standing at another institution and is taking a course at U. of M. for which credit will be transferred to his/her regular institution.
High Shool / College Concurrent – High school student taking college courses in advance of high school graduation.
SENIORS - See CLASSIFICATION.
SOPHOMORES - See CLASSIFICATION.
STATE OF RESIDENCE - See GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN.
TRANSFER STUDENTS - See REGISTRATION TYPE.
TRANSIENT STUDENTS - See REGISTRATION TYPE.
WEEKEND COURSES – See ATTENDANCE SCHEDULE.
WEST TENNESSEE COUNTIES – See GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN.