The partnership and program has succeeded in increasing the engineering retention and degree completion rate for the minority scholars. Fourteen of the Phase 1 participants graduated in engineering with an overall mean GPA of 3.005 (s.d. = 0.505), and the remaining Phase 1 scholar is on track to graduate May 2011. This yields a Phase 1 minority engineering graduation rate of 78.9%, which far exceeds the overall LSU engineering six year graduation rate of 39.3%. Of the Phase 2 scholars, 92.8% have been retained in the engineering curriculum, and they had a mean cumulative GPA of 3.171(s.d. = 0.407) at the mid-point of the program.
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