Retention rates represent the percentages of respective pools of Fall quarter first-time, full-time entering students who are re-enrolled or transferred within the University System in the following Fall quarter. The student pools for which one-year retention rates are calculated are regularly admitted freshmen, black (B) and all other (AO), and Developmental Studies students, black and all other. The institution-specific rates are based on students who are retained in Fall 1996 at the institution at which they matriculated in Fall 1995. The System rates include those students who transferred from the Fall 1995 institution to another System institution.

	FIRST-TIME, FULL-TIME REGULAR FRESHMEN	FIRST-TIME, FULL-TIME LEARNING SUPPORT	FIRST-TIME, FULL-TIME TOTAL
INSTITUTION	Institution- Specific Rate	Institution- Specific Rate	Institution Rate			___System Rate__
			B	AO	T	B	AO	T
Georgia Institute of Technology	85.5	76.2	84.4	85.5	85.4	87.2	90.2	90.0
Georgia State University	69.9	68.3	64.2	71.9	69.3	68.4	80.4	76.3
University of Georgia	87.6	84.4	84.1	87.6	87.1	91.1	92.8	92.6
University Total	84.4	76.3	75.5	84.5	83.1	80.7	90.1	88.6
Georgia Southern University	72.8	66.8	74.7	67.6	69.7	82.7	79.7	80.6
Valdosta State University	73.1	68.0	76.5	68.2	70.5	80.9	79.0	79.5
Regional University Total	72.9	67.2	75.3	67.8	70.0	82.2	79.4	80.2
Albany State University	71.3	67.1	69.0	45.5	68.5	72.4	72.7	72.4
Armstrong Atlantic State Univ.	64.9	59.4	63.4	62.2	62.4	65.3	66.7	66.4
Augusta State University	64.3	46.5	50.0	58.3	56.0	51.0	62.2	59.1
Clayton College & State Univ.	58.6	50.5	55.9	55.4	55.5	60.4	63.5	62.9
Columbus State University	67.6	47.2	49.6	64.0	60.5	50.4	68.6	64.0
Fort Valley State University	77.3	70.6	72.8	75.0	72.8	77.0	100.0	77.2
Georgia College & State Univ.	70.0	55.4	67.8	65.4	65.7	74.4	79.1	78.5
Georgia Southwestern State Univ.	68.4	63.5	69.6	65.6	66.9	72.8	75.4	74.5
Kennesaw State University	69.7	61.1	50.0	67.9	67.3	56.7	73.6	73.1
North Ga. College & State Univ.	74.2	63.6	100.0	72.4	72.6	100.0	85.5	85.6
Savannah State University	58.9	52.8	55.6	23.5	54.8	64.7	47.1	64.3
Southern Polytechnic State Univ.	64.5	0.0	66.7	64.1	64.5	69.0	79.6	77.8
State University of West Georgia	68.4	55.7	69.0	61.8	63.3	80.1	74.3	75.5
State University Total	67.7	57.3	63.3	63.5	63.4	68.7	72.6	71.3
Abraham Baldwin Agric. College	63.8	47.4	45.6	56.5	55.5	49.1	65.7	64.3
Atlanta Metropolitan College	48.8	52.3	50.8	80.0	51.5	54.0	80.0	54.6
Bainbridge College	51.4	56.5	48.6	54.4	53.0	48.6	63.2	59.6
Coastal Georgia Comm. College	55.2	45.5	50.0	51.6	51.2	53.7	60.9	59.3
Dalton College	62.1	56.0	45.5	60.7	60.4	45.5	62.2	61.9
Darton College	66.2	51.6	43.2	62.4	56.8	44.9	69.1	62.0
DeKalb College	67.3	61.0	62.8	63.3	63.2	64.0	68.1	67.2
East Georgia College	72.5	53.3	53.3	62.5	61.6	60.0	67.4	66.7
Floyd College	60.1	54.9	63.4	56.4	56.9	63.4	59.5	59.8
Gainesville College	71.3	63.9	57.1	68.9	68.5	64.3	73.1	72.8
Gordon College	60.4	51.6	51.7	56.4	55.7	62.1	68.1	67.2
Macon State College	66.5	52.9	55.2	60.4	59.2	59.4	66.6	64.9
Middle Georgia College	68.9	44.6	49.6	60.4	57.3	57.4	71.1	67.1
South Georgia College	64.7	50.4	45.3	59.6	56.4	50.9	70.2	66.0
Waycross College	67.9	41.9	54.2	51.7	52.1	54.2	66.1	64.1
Associate Degree College Total	64.1	53.6	52.9	59.9	58.6	56.6	66.6	64.7
SYSTEM TOTAL	73.5	60.4	65.8	69.1	68.3	71.1	77.0	75.6

Sources: Student Information Reporting System