Measuring what students learn, complete, and carry forward.
Ecclesia College evaluates student learning, persistence, completion, and post-college outcomes to understand how effectively the College is fulfilling its educational mission.
What does Ecclesia seek to develop in its graduates?
Ecclesia’s educational outcomes connect academic learning, Christian character, communication, leadership, service, and lifelong growth through three movements: Know Truth, Practice Truth, and Share Truth.
Learn to understand and think.
Develop a biblical worldview, think carefully about what you are learning, and continue growing beyond graduation.
Put conviction into action.
Live with integrity and faithfully steward your abilities, responsibilities, relationships, and opportunities.
Communicate and lead.
Communicate clearly and use what you have learned to lead and serve in meaningful ways.
Outcomes are more than statements on a page.
Ecclesia uses multiple forms of evidence to evaluate student learning at institutional and academic-program levels.
Assessment helps the College examine whether students are developing the knowledge, abilities, and characteristics Ecclesia says its education is intended to develop.
Evidence from student work
Assessment may draw from course projects, written work, oral presentations, capstone projects, and other academic artifacts.
Program-level assessment
Academic programs identify learning objectives and use program-specific measures to evaluate student achievement.
Student and graduate feedback
Surveys provide additional evidence about student experience, institutional effectiveness, graduate plans, employment, and continuing education.
Student-success measures
Ecclesia also examines federally reported measures such as retention, completion, transfer, and broader undergraduate Outcome Measures.
Current federally reported student-success measures.
Ecclesia reports student data through the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The 2025 IPEDS Data Feedback Report draws from the 2024–25 federal reporting cycle.
Full-Time Retention
The percentage of the applicable first-time, full-time bachelor’s degree-seeking cohort that returned the following fall.
Fall 2023 entering cohort · Retention measured into Fall 2024Graduation Rate
The percentage of the applicable full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate cohort completing within 150% of normal program time.
2018 entering Student Right-to-Know cohortTransfer-Out Rate
The percentage of the same federal graduation-rate cohort known to have transferred to another institution without first completing an award at Ecclesia.
2018 entering Student Right-to-Know cohortThese percentages do not all describe the same entering class. Retention follows first-time bachelor’s degree-seeking students from one fall to the next. The traditional federal graduation and transfer-out measures follow a separate full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking cohort over a longer period. Students who transfer into Ecclesia, begin part-time, or enter with previous college experience are not represented the same way in these traditional measures. View Ecclesia’s 2025 IPEDS Data Feedback Report ↗
Not every Ecclesia student enters college the same way.
Traditional federal graduation rates focus on full-time, first-time students. IPEDS also requires degree-granting colleges to report Outcome Measures that follow a broader range of undergraduate students.
Those measures are particularly useful when understanding institutions that enroll transfer students, returning students, and students whose enrollment pattern differs from the traditional first-time, full-time pathway.
First-Time · Full-Time
Students entering undergraduate study for the first time and attending full-time.
First-Time · Part-Time
Students entering undergraduate study for the first time while attending part-time.
Non-First-Time · Full-Time
Students entering Ecclesia with prior postsecondary experience and attending full-time.
Non-First-Time · Part-Time
Students entering with prior postsecondary experience and attending part-time.
IPEDS Outcome Measures track awards at four, six, and eight years and also report whether students who did not complete remain enrolled or transferred elsewhere. Ecclesia’s current Outcome Measures are available in the 2025 IPEDS Data Feedback Report ↗ .
What happens after graduation?
Ecclesia uses graduate and exit surveys to learn more about what students plan to do after graduation and what graduates are doing after leaving the College.
These surveys help Ecclesia examine employment, continuing education, career preparation, and other post-college activity.
Employment
Graduate surveys collect information about employment status, employers, job relevance, and career activity.
Continuing Education
Graduates may report graduate school, professional education, certifications, and other continued study.
Career Preparation
Surveys also gather information about internships, career resources, and perceptions of preparation for professional life.
Additional graduation, employment, borrowing, and required federal disclosure information is available through Consumer Information . Survey reports are also available below.
Students provide another measure of institutional effectiveness.
Survey results provide perspective on parts of the student experience that cannot be understood through grades, retention, or graduation rates alone.
Senior Seminar Student Satisfaction Survey
Ecclesia’s published survey tracks student perceptions across areas including faculty, campus environment, administrative services, mentoring, Service Learning, financial aid, career development, athletics, and other parts of the student experience.
View Institutional Effectiveness Survey ↗Ecclesia Exit Survey
The published Exit Survey includes information about post-graduation plans, employment, continuing education, internships, career resources, and students’ reflections on Work-Learning experiences.
View Exit Survey Results ↗You can verify Ecclesia’s data independently.
Students and families do not have to rely only on information presented by Ecclesia. The U.S. Department of Education provides public tools for reviewing institutional data and student outcomes.
Different federal tools may display different completion rates because they use different cohorts, time periods, and methodologies. Review the definition attached to each measure before comparing percentages.
Review the underlying assessment materials.
These reports provide additional detail for visitors who want to examine Ecclesia’s institutional, federal, and academic assessment information.
Older assessment reports may use institutional terminology or program titles that were current when those reports were prepared. For current academic programs, policies, and institutional terminology, use the Academic Catalog .
Current Federal Student Outcomes Data
The 2025 IPEDS Data Feedback Report draws from Ecclesia’s 2024–25 federal IPEDS reporting cycle and is the primary current federal report used on this page.
Institutional Student Learning Assessment
The published 2019–2022 assessment report documents the institutional learning objectives and student-learning measures used during that assessment period.
2019–2022 Program Assessment Archive
Report titles below are preserved as originally published. Some degree names or program structures may have changed since this assessment cycle.
Previous IPEDS Data Feedback Reports
Previous federal reports are retained for historical reference. Use the 2025 report above for current federal reporting on this page.
Student & Graduate Surveys
Survey data provides additional evidence about student experience and graduate transition beyond academic performance and federal completion measures.
Student outcomes are one part of a larger picture.
Ecclesia publishes additional information about its mission, academic programs, accreditation, policies, and required disclosures throughout the website.
Outcomes matter. So does finding the right place to grow.
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