Executive Summary UNCA Graduate Profile 1999-2000 During the 1999-00 academic year, UNCA graduated 507 students.Women comprised 65% of this year's graduating class, a significant increase over previous years. UNCA continues to graduate most students from the Social Sciences discipline (33.6%).   Percent of UNCA Graduates within Discipline Discipline Percent Social Sciences 33.6 Natural Sciences 24.6 Humanities 23.7 Management/Acct 17.6 Interdisciplinary 0.6   Majors with the most graduates during 1999-2000 are given below. Double majors are counted twice. Major Number Percent Psychology 76 14.5 Management 63 12.0 Biology 41 7.8 Environmenal Sci 41 7.8 Sociology 38 7.3 Literature 27 5.2 The percentage of UNCA graduates receiving a degree in a traditional liberal arts field (68%) greatly exceeds the minimum threshold (50%) set by the Carnegie Foundation for Baccalaureate I (Liberal Arts) institutions. Changes this year include the reclassification of Environmental Studies (no longer classified as a liberal arts major) and the new Carnegie definition for liberal arts I which changed the threshold from 40% to 50%. More than half of the1999-00 graduates (56.6%) were of traditional age (18-23). The four, five and six year graduation rates for new fall freshmen from the 1994-1996 cohorts are as follows: Cohort Year Graduation Rate 1996 (4 year) 28.1% 1995 (5 year) 48.5% 1994 (6 year) 47.5% Over the last five years, the mean number of years to graduate for graduates entering as new freshmen was 5.0 years. Among the 1999-2000 graduates matriculating as new freshmen, 55% graduated in four years. Over the last five years, graduates who first enrolled as new freshmen completed a mean of 130 hours at UNCA. Graduates for the following majors/programs completed 140 or more hours on average: Classics - 151.0, Ind Engr Mgmt -148.4, Education - 141.8. During 1999-2000 there were five MLA graduates. A total of 41 Masters of Liberal Arts degrees have been awarded since the program began in 1989.