Aviation Science Student Achievement

Enrollment

Student enrollment in each degree program and program option under review has appropriate enrollment that is tracked and verified. They have appropriate enrollment as defined by the State of Texas and the University. The following chart has the data related to the programs under review.

Year	Semester	AVSM	Industrial Technology	Construction	Design
2019	Fall	110	38	19	19
	Spring	94	23	15	8
2018	Fall	95	59	41	18
	Spring	95	59	44	15
2017	Fall	100	74	57	17
	Spring	88	65	57	8
2016	Fall	101	79	60	19
	Spring	75	79	62	17
2015	Fall	86	90	69	21
	Spring	80	79	15	8
2014	Fall	101	59	19	19
	Spring	72

Enrollment in the Aviation Science Management Program averaged about 60 students per academic year from 2013-2019. The total enrollments for this period (2016-2019) were approximately 300 students. Currently, the Aviation Science Management Program has one hundred ten students in the program, with Fall 2019 being the largest freshman class in five years.  To continue the growth of the program, long and short-term goals are being revised to attract, recruit, and retain students to the program; with assistance from the Aviation Advisory Board.
The 2019 enrollment is 110 students, up from the last year’s enrollment of 100 students.

Retention

The following tables show the GPA and retention rates of the programs under review compared to the University in General and the College of Science, Engineering and Technology.  The table shows the Retention rates (%) of both full-time and part-time first-time freshmen into the sophomore year for the Aviation Science Management and Industrial Technology programs, compared appropriately with the University’s and College’s retention rates for five consecutive academic years.

Yearr	TSU general	Aviation Science Management	Industrial Tech Construction	Industrial Tech Design	COSET general
2018	2.45	2.71	2.75	2.45	2.43
2017	2.54	2.77	2.64	2.73	2.60
2016	2.68	2.74	2.56	2.86	2.66
2015	2.64	2.89	2.67	2.50	2.62
2014	2.55	2.65	2.38	2.32	2.47
2013	2.57	2.95	2.20	2.36	2.56

Year	TSU general	Aviation Science Management	Industrial Tech Construction	Industrial Tech Design	COSET general
2018	49.77	40.91	48.15	45.34	49.51
2017	56.51	52.63	59.23	56.21	57.66
2016	48.32	68.75	52.74	48.08	50.13
2015	43.28	55.56	38.86	39.51	41.00
2014	51.44	90.00	50.45	52.46	53.47

BS in Aviation Science Management

Please note from the table above that the students in BS in Aviation Science Management performed above the GPA average for the College of Science, Engineering and Technology and the University in general for the years 2013 through 2018. 

Graduation Survey

The Aviation Science Management Program recently completed a survey of its graduates. The follow-up survey includes a question to investigate the satisfaction of graduates with how adequately the program prepared them academically. The question was:
“I am satisfied with the academic preparation I received through Texas Southern University Aviation program towards B.S. degree in Aviation Science Management.”
This was to be answered with these options: strongly agree, agree, somewhat agree, neither agree or disagree, somewhat disagree, disagree, and strongly agree. The figure below shows the results attained from the survey which revealed that 81% of the alumni were satisfied with the academic preparation they received through their degree in Aviation Science Management. These 81% constitutes those that strongly agreed and those that simply agreed. One of the goals of the aviation program is to prepare graduates and equip them with the skills necessary to function effectively and in technical and managerial positions.

Within the survey conducted, a question to investigate the work responsibilities for those alumni working in the industry was asked. The question was,
“What are the majority of your work/position responsibilities considered?”
the figure below shows the results from the respondents.

Technical and managerial work responsibilities yielded the highest percentages in all the options. Technical yielded 40% and Managerial yielded 37%.

Graduate Placement Data

Graduates of the aviation science management program are employed by reputable companies and agencies in government and the industry. These include Universal Weather & Aviation, Inc., Southwest Airlines, Federal Aviation Administration, Houston Airports, United Airlines, American Airlines, Transportation Security Administration, United States Military (Navy, Coast Guard, and Army), Western Airways, Star-based Flight, etc. as seen the following chart.

School year	Grads	Employed
Aviation Science and Management			Job Titles
2013-2014	13	11	Airport Management and Operations	Flight Crew Scheduler
2014-2015	21	18	Fixed Based Operator Manager	Airport Ops. Coordinator
2015-2016	13	11	Security Inspector	Safety Inspector
2016-2017	26	23	Project Manager	Professional Pilot
2017-2018	4	3	Aircraft Mechanic	Airport Director
2018-2019	15	13	Air Traffic Control	Airline Crew Scheduler
2019-2020	16		Airline Crew Scheduler	Airline Crew Scheduler
			Aircraft Charter Sales Rep	Trip Planner
			Flight Following Agent	Flight Operations Agent

Salary Survey

52 TSU Aviation Alumni where surveyed about their salary.

Graduate Placement Data (Aviation Science Management):

Time Period	# Graduates	# Graduates Employed
2019-2020	–	33
2020-2021	–	22
2021-2022	–	Pending

Graduate Placement Data (Aviation Science Management, Profession Pilot Concentration):

Time Period	# Graduates	# Graduates Employed
2020	1	1
2021	2	1