Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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173 Sixtesn Years at the Vnivtnity of Illinois INSULA K POSSESSIONS OP THE UNITKI) STATES (Including Cannl Zone) REPRESENTED BT STUDENTS, 1917*18 Country Hawaii Philippines Total No. of Students 5 7 Country Porto Rico Canal Zono No. of Students 2 1 16 ATTENDANCE OP INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS IN SUCCESSIVE YEARS The following table is of interest as indicating the extent to which students drop out of college before the completion of their courses.17 Although the figures shown are for but a single year, the number of students involved is sufficiently large to make it probable that the percentages found represent fairly the facts relating to the attendance of students in any two successive years. THE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGES, THE SCHOOL OP MUSIC AND THE COLLEGE OP LAW PERCENTAGES OF STUDENTS GRADUATED, RETURNED, NOT RETURNED (Students of 1911-12) Total Grad- Jane 1911- uated 1912 12 No. Pet. 909 164 18.0 393 64 16.3 1,290 195 15.1 818 68 8.3 82 2 2.5 122 26 21.3 8,614 519 14.4 Returned 1912 No. Pet 501 65.1 256 65.1 661 51.2 485 59.2 47 57.3 84 68.8 2,084 56.2 Not Ret'a 1912 No. Pet 244 26.9 78 18.6 434 33.7 265 32.5 83 40.2 12 9.9 1,061" 29.4 Colleges and Schools Literature and Arts Science Engineering Agriculture Music Law Totals It will be noticed that there is a considerable difference in the case of the various colleges in the proportion of students who leave before completing their work, ranging from less than ten per cent for the College of Law to over forty per cent for the School of Music. "From Report of Registrar, Univ. of IU., September 29,1913, p. 82
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