What Does This Mean?

[shikamaru]

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Does anyone know what "First Professional Degrees Conferred" means? (Taken from http://www.aacp.org/site/page.asp?TRACKID=&VID=1&CID=1029&DID=6072).

It would have been clearer if AACP instead said something like "PharmD Degrees Conferred", but oh well. I was just trying to use this to determine each school's attrition/retention rate for the past few years, however I'm not sure how accurate the data is. For example, you can look at UCSF's number of degrees conferred and it totally makes sense (nearly 100% retention rate; their class size is 122 in case you don't know), but then if you look at some other schools that you may be familiar with, some data just don't make sense at all...

 

[eelo]

Does anyone know what "First Professional Degrees Conferred" means? (Taken from http://www.aacp.org/site/page.asp?TRACKID=&VID=1&CID=1029&DID=6072).

It would have been clearer if AACP instead said something like "PharmD Degrees Conferred", but oh well. I was just trying to use this to determine each school's attrition/retention rate for the past few years, however I'm not sure how accurate the data is. For example, you can look at UCSF's number of degrees conferred and it totally makes sense (nearly 100% retention rate; their class size is 122 in case you don't know), but then if you look at some other schools that you may be familiar with, some data just don't make sense at all...

Maybe because some schools offer a PharmD/PhD route? Or the PharmD/MBA or MPA or MPH ones, maybe?

 

[shikamaru]

I thought that too, but oh my goodness if the data includes those degrees too, do you realize how many people AREN'T getting their degrees when they are *supposed* to? That is pretty freaky

What I mean is, if dual degrees are counted here, then I'd expect some numbers to be higher than the class size, especially for schools with almost 0% attrition. Furthermore, if dual degrees are counted here, then that just means that the numbers are even smaller for PharmD degrees alone. Ouch.

 

[shikamaru]

By the way, I'm pretty sure that MS and PhD degrees are not included, since there are two separate data sets for those categories as you can see from the link. Either way, that still goes back to my first question, if anyone knows 😳.