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IR and Assessment

Institutional Research - Department Profiles

The data presented come from Banner Student data, maintained by the Registrar, using a Brio/Hyperion query. Each enrollment is matched with the department and college currently offering the program using the Banner curriculum code, consisting of the degree college code, degree code, and major code. Obsolete and discontinued college-degree-major codes are assigned to the current department and college that would have been responsible for that program, using a table maintained by IR and Assessment.

Several programs are assigned to departments based on the department of the individual student’s primary advisor. In order for these to be assigned correctly, the student’s advisor must be correct (use Banner form SGAADVR to verify/correct this information), and also the advisor’s primary department must be correct (use Banner form SIAINST to verify this information – send requests for corrections to the Registrar’s office). It is important for each advisor’s primary department to be the primary academic department for the advisor, lest the students advised be assigned to an administrative or non-academic unit (e.g. avoid using the administrative unit as the primary department for faculty currently in an administrative position). The specific majors assigned according to the advisor department are:

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The numbers in each cell of these tables represent the number of students who were enrolled in an acceptable degree major at a particular point in time within the semester, either 10^th Day or End of Semester (EOS). Each student is counted once on each row where they have one or more majors. The values are determined using the “count distinct” function. The table, FTE by College, Department and Level uses the variable, “FTE in Major,” which was calculated by dividing a student’s FTE by the number of majors he/she has. Students with multiple majors are counted once in each cell in the table as displayed. For example:

A student who is enrolled in two majors in different departments, e.g. History and Political Science, at the same point of time in a given semester is counted once on all rows for that semester, except for those tables showing departments, where he or she is counted once in each History and Political Science.

A student who is enrolled in two majors in the same department, e.g. Advertising and Public Relations, at the same point of time in a given semester is counted once on all rows for that semester, except for those tables showing the majors, where he or she is counted once in each Advertising and Public Relations.

Because each student enrolled has only one “International/Ethnic” classification, the table, “Enrollment by International/Ethnic” provides a total head count of all students enrolled in an acceptable degree major at a particular point in time within the semester. To see what is being counted in each department, refer to the table, “Enrollment by Department, Level, Degree and Major”. In this table each of the unique degree-major combinations is listed separately.

Please contact Institutional Research and Assessment if you have questions about these tables, the assignment of degrees and majors to departments and/or colleges, or to request different reports.