Full-Time and Part-Time Students

Progress toward achieving a degree objective is measured largely, although not exclusively, by credit hours completed. The University classifies as full-time those undergraduates or professional students enrolled in twelve or more credit hours during the Fall or Spring semester. Enrollment in nine or more credit hours constitutes full-time status for graduate students.
The chart below shows full- and part-time student enrollment by campus for Fall semester 1997-98. Full-time enrollment as a percent of total headcount enrollment varies from 38 percent to 84 percent among the campuses. The relatively high percentage for the Bloomington campus reflects the residential character of that campus.
Compared with ten years ago, there has been an increase in the percentage of full-time students on the regional campuses. At IU East for example, the proportion of full-time to part-time students was 26% in Fall 1987 and by Fall 1997 it has risen to 43%. The other regional campuses have also experienced increases, though less dramatic than East's, in proportions of their full-time students. On the Bloomington campus full-time enrollment as a percent of the total headcount has remained relatively constant, while the Indianapolis campus has experienced an increase of ten percentage points over the ten-year period.

TOTAL FULL-TIME & PART-TIME STUDENT HEADCOUNT ENROLLMENT BY CAMPUS Fall Semester, 1997-98

				Full-Time as
Campus	Full-Time	Part-Time	Total	Percent of Total
Bloomington	29,355	5,582	34,937	84%
Indianapolis
. Health Division	2,817	1,013	3,830	74%
. General Academic Division	11,093	12,113	23,206	48%
Total	13,910	13,126	27,036	51%
East	997	1,348	2,345	43%
Kokomo	1,108	1,819	2,927	38%
Northwest	2,430	2,826	5,256	46%
South Bend	3,064	4,105	7,169	43%
Southeast	2,534	2,986	5,520	46%
Subtotal	53,398	31,792	85,190	63%
Fort Wayne	2,926	3,099	6,025	49%
Total University	56,324	34,891	91,215	62%

SOURCE: Student Information and Fiscal Services
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Last Updated: May 1998
URL: http://factbook.indiana.edu/fbook97/degcnf97.html
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