Goals for Student Achievement and Student Success
The focus of TCC’s mission is to educate PRACTICE-READY doctors of chiropractic. One way this is accomplished is by identifying the necessary student competencies in The TCC Graduate: An Educational Blueprint for the 21st Century which will lead to success. This report was initially developed in 2007 and expands on the competencies required by the Council on Chiropractic Education. There are currently nine meta-competencies that provide the framework for this document and the foundation for identifying student success.
Measures of student achievement, including the NBCE results expanded below, are available here.
DC Completion Rates
Normal Length of Program - 10 Trimesters
Entrance Term | # of Students Matriculated in Entrance Term | Term 15 Trimesters After Entrance Term | # of Students that Graduated in 15 Trimesters | Completion Rate at the 150th Percentile |
Fall 2014 | 50 | Summer 2019 | 37 | 74.00% |
Spring 2015 | 22 | Fall 2019 | 17 | 77.27% |
Summer 2015 | 17 | Spring 2020 | 12 | 70.59% |
Fall 2015 | 31 | Summer 2020 | 22 | 70.97% |
Spring 2016 | 22 | Fall 2020 | 19 | 86.36% |
Summer 2016 | 26 | Spring 2021 | 17 | 65.38% |
TOTALS | 168 |
| 124 | 73.81% |
Licensing Exam Completion Rates
The following table depicts students who have completed all four parts of the NBCE exams within six months of graduation.
Texas Chiropractic College does not require students to take all four parts of the NBCE exams prior to graduation. Instead, students are allowed to take the Part III and IV exams on the pace that is most appropriate to each individual's timing and goals as related to beginning in chiropractic practice. The Part IV exam scores (see above) provide a more accurate depiction of success rates of TCC students as it includes students up to three years after graduation who are taking the exams for the first time.
Successful Completion of NBCE Licensing Exams by Graduation
| Calendar Year Graduates (Last 4 Years) | Number of Graduates Attempting Any or All Parts (I, II, III, IV) of NBCE Exams within six (6) months post - graduation | Number of Graduates Passing All Parts (I, II, III, IV) of NBCE Exams within six (6) months post - graduation | Percentage of Graduates Pass All Parts (I, II, III, IV) of NBCE Exams within six (6) months post - graduation |
|
2017 Graduates | 63 | 53 | 84% |
|
2018 Graduates |
58 | 49 | 84% |
|
2019 Graduates |
67 |
53 | 79% |
| 2020 Graduates |
83 | 67 | 81% |
| Totals | 271 | 222 |
82% (Weighted Average) |