Summary:

Given eCampus' continued growth, the student population's overall profile remains surprisingly constant on indicators such as geography, ethnic diversity, and fields of study. An interesting statistic this year, however, is that there is less than .007 difference in the GPA of the eCampus group vs. that of the non-eCampus population. In past years, eCampus' average GPA has been as much as 19% higher. At the same time, eCampus students continue to carry a heavier course load than their on-campus counterparts.

Geography

eCampus continues its climb toward representation from all 50 states. In the current session, 41 states are represented, up from 37 a year ago. Although nine states remain unrepresented, we do have students from both Alaska (3) and Hawaii (1). Non-US locations with one student each are Ontario and Nova Scotia; Turkey; Venezuela; and Poland. We also have four students with US military base addresses and seven students, presumably stationed overseas, with APO/FPO addresses.

The percentage of students from Florida has remained at 97% for the past several sessions and continues at that level in the current session. However, as we attract more students from other Florida cities and from other states, the proportion of students from Pinellas County continues a corresponding downward trend, currently at 70.1%, compared to 72.4%, 75.5% and 77.6% in previous years.

With 31 enrolled, New York continues to contribute the most out-of-state students, followed by Virginia with 18, North Carolina with 15 and Ohio and Tennessee with 12 each.

Florida cities contributing the largest numbers of students include:

Gender

This distribution remains essentially unchanged, with women continuing to outnumber men more than 2:1.

            Female             69%

            Male                31%

The gap exceeds that of the non-eCampus group, which is 60% women and 40% men.

Major Code

Last year, students in the GEN-AA program represented 49.8% of the eCampus population. That figure is down slightly this year at 46.5%. Of the non-eCampus population, 50.2% is in the GEN-AA major code.

In eCampus, the non-GEN-AA population is strongly dominated by Nursing, Technology Management and Veterinary Technology. The combined nursing programs (pre-Nursing, AS and BS) account for 5.9% of the total eCampus population; combined Vet Tech programs comprise 5.0%, the BAS in Technology Management represents 4.3%, up slightly from 4.1% last year.

Ethnicity

The eCampus population's shifts in ethnic diversity tend to be minor and irregular rather than steady in either gains or losses. The following percentages are based on the subsets of eCampus and non-eCampus students who provided ethnic group information, not on the total population of either group. For 3.5% of eCampus students and 3.6% of non-eCampus students in the total populations, no ethnic group data was available.

Performance

The performance gap between eCampus and non-eCampus students has essentially closed. In this session, the difference in the average GPA of the two groups is less than .007. As in previous sessions, eCampus students continue to carry a higher course load, but that disparity too has shrunk, dropping from 20% last year to 16% this year.

Another interesting finding is that although eCampus students as a group have successfully completed 29% more course work than non-eCampus students, the two groups' ratios of hours attempted to hours passed are very close: 73% for eCampus students and 72% for non-eCampus.