Orser, H., & Swanson-Hysell, E. (2022, August), Analysis of Enrollment and Graduation Rates by Gender Over 10 Years  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40501

\bibitem{asee_peer_40501}
  Orser, H., \& Swanson-Hysell, E. (2022, August), \emph{Analysis of Enrollment and Graduation Rates by Gender Over 10 Years}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40501

Heather Orser and Ella Swanson-Hysell.  "Analysis of Enrollment and Graduation Rates by Gender Over 10 Years".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40501 Internet.  12 May, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_40501}
  Heather Orser and Ella Swanson-Hysell.
  "Analysis of Enrollment and Graduation Rates by Gender Over 10 Years".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40501 Internet.  12 May, 2025

@INPROCEEDINGS{asee_peer_40501
author = "Heather Orser and Ella Swanson-Hysell"
title = "Analysis of Enrollment and Graduation Rates by Gender Over 10 Years"
booktitle = "2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition"
year = "2022"
month = "August"
address = "Minneapolis, MN"
publisher = "ASEE Conferences"
note = {https://peer.asee.org/40501}
number = {10.18260/1-2--40501}
}

TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Women have been consistently underrepresented in most engineering disciplines. To counteract this, the University of St Thomas (UST) has set a goal to increase the diversity of our faculty and has worked since its inception to welcome and include women in engineering. This work has taken the form of supporting women through outreach programs and generating a welcoming atmosphere for all within the school.

We have compiled information on the last ten years of undergraduate enrollment and graduation in engineering at UST in an effort to quantify past and current enrollment and graduation rates. The ten-year data on undergraduate students was assessed by gender for differences between men and women for time to graduation, enrollment, and retention. This data shows a steady increase in the percent of each engineering class that is female and the percent of women in each class is above the national average for the majors represented at the school, as reported by ASEE.

In an attempt to explain some of the consistent growth in women year by year, we compiled information on the gender distribution of faculty within the school of engineering based on earlier work indicating that this may impact student enrollment. When we combined this data with the class trend over time we found a steady increase in both the number of women in each class and the number of female faculty. Analysis indicates that the increase in undergraduate representation by women in engineering may be related to the increase in female faculty; however, the data is insufficient to show causation.

UST’s enrollment of women exceeds the expected enrollment for the majors we offer. Women are retained within engineering at rates comparable to men and on average they graduate faster. Efforts to understand the causes of these results are mixed and continuing work is necessary in tracking student body composition and assessing the reasons behind our success to date.
AU  - Heather Orser
AU  - Ella Swanson-Hysell
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
DA  - 2022/08/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Analysis of Enrollment and Graduation Rates by Gender Over 10 Years
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/40501
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--40501
ER  -