Students who enter the program, which begins this fall, can choose any major.

The first students entered the new program in fall 2011.

These average about 20 percent of those who enter the program.

Some of the students do not pick a topic until they enter the program.

Just over 220 people have entered the program since it began last year.

Less than half of all people who enter the program remain after the first 60 days.

About 15 more are in the process of entering the program.

In the fall of 2007, the first student cohort entered the program.

And 41 percent of those who had entered the program were still on the rolls three years later.

Half the those who entered the program came from the South.