What do the different categories on the Attrition Template mean?
Without MA = Used to count students who withdrew without receiving a master’s degree from the program within the first four years following initial enrollment, meaning without en route MA, so that a student who has completed a master’s degree before being admitted to a Ph.D. program would not be counted in this field. With MA – without C = Used to count students who withdrew after having completed a master’s degree but without achieving doctoral candidacy within the first four years following initial enrollment. With Candidacy = Counts those who withdrew after achieving doctoral candidacy, with or without a master’s degree, within the first four years following initial enrollment. Withdrew = Counts students who left the Ph.D. program, with or without master’s degree, after the fourth year. *[See next question, below] Transfer Out = Accounts for students who left the program to continue a Ph.D. in another program within the institution or in another program at a different institution (e
