Unveiling the Story behind Numbers: Using Institutional Data to Reform Program Support for Online Graduate Students

A comparative longitudinal data analysis between two online non-thesis master's programs--natural resource management and environmental science--in a college of natural resources to determine the relationship between student characteristics and disenrollment risks. Risks varied between the two programs, with significance found to increase the risk of disenrollment due to cumulative GPA, gender, time between degrees, and the number of terms not enrolled. [For the full proceedings, see ED648717.]