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Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning - George Mason University
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Planning

Data with purpose. The qualitative and quantitative information OIEP curates, analyzes, and publishes illuminates trends, forecasts potential and contributes to the ongoing planning initiatives of the university including strategic institutional goals, program planning and innovation, and student success.

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institutional Effectiveness

How do we know what we are doing works? Defining and assessing student learning outcomes, engaging in rigorous program review, conducting surveys to understand experience and satisfaction and student evaluations of teaching are all ways in which Mason can learn more about how we are doing and what we can improve.

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Data Analytics and Research

Want to learn more about Mason? Explore the reports here to learn more about applicants to graduates, survey outcomes, human resources and planning.

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Student Success

What does the student lifecycle at Mason look like? From where do our applicants come? Where do our admitted students enroll? Once enrolled, how many students are retained to the on the path to graduation? What are the career outcomes? Learn more with these resources.

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Resources

Find how to use our reports, answers to common questions and how to request data not already available

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About Us
About Us

OIEP advances the strategic goals of George Mason University through collaborations and partnerships that engage stakeholders (senior leaders/administration, faculty, staff and students) in data-informed strategic, operational and tactical decisions. OIEP does this by capitalizing on our experience and professional judgment drawing upon quantitative and qualitative analytic information.

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Enrollment

Official Enrollment Reports
Description: Student Enrollment
Data include student Headcount (HC), student FTE, and student credit hours by student level, college, degree, major, gender, race/ethnicity, tuition domicile, load (Full-time/Part-time), new/return status, campus
 
Course Enrollment
Data on course enrollment by Academic Course Division/College and Course Level by Credit Hour and Course FTE. Display includes FTE distribution by Division of Student Major. Data are presented by Campus, College, and Domicile. When choosing a College, the Academic Course Department data are displayed.
 
Reporting
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV): Commonwealth SCHEV student enrollment reporting includes all students at all George Mason University campuses, including GMU-Korea enrollments.
 
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Federal IPEDS student enrollment reporting excludes GMU-Korea enrollments.
Glossary of Terms: All Terminology definitions used in OIEP dashboards and reports.
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Official Student Enrollment


Official Course Enrollment


Course Sections and Student Credit Hours by Faculty/Staff Type
  •    Course Sections and Student Credit Hours by Faculty/Staff Type Dashboard

    This dashboard excludes independent studies, internships, labs, recitations, PMI, Academic English, and Mason LIFE; faculty/staff type of “other” includes affiliates, less than 1.0 FTE salaried instructional faculty, administrative faculty, classified staff, research staff, wage, and unknown employment categories.
     
    This dashboard is only accessible from the Mason network. If you are off campus, you will need to use VPN to access this link.


Official Enrollment Trends and Dashboards


Official Enrollment Detail by Major and Minor

Preliminary Enrollment Reports and Dashboards


Course Detail Daily Enrollment Snapshot
For current course daily enrollments, please see MicroStrategy Enrollment Summary Reports or by going to MicroStrategy directly:
 
https://its.gmu.edu/service/microstrategy/
Production Schedule: Beginning of Term (BOT): Data are pulled from Banner the day after the last day to add for the full semester.
 
Census: Official reporting file. Data are pulled from Banner approximately 6 weeks after the start of the semester. Fall semester: mid-October; Spring semester March; Summer semester July.
 
End of Term (EOT): Data are pulled from Banner after the semester ends and the grades have been submitted for the semester.
Data Source: Data are extracted from Banner, Mason Student Information System. Data are updated 3 times per semester, BOT, Census, and EOT.
 
Notes: • Due to rapid changes in university structure and majors, we are not able to keep the historical college mappings or student preferred college mappings for certain majors. The college mappings for each major are based on most the recent structure.
 
• Starting in Fall 2011, graduate student load is no longer calculated solely on the basis of enrolled credit hours, but is calculated using the full-time classifications defined in the university catalog.
 
• Starting in Fall 2011, certificate and special program students are displayed separately.
 
• Starting in Fall 2011, Distance Education is defined as students enrolled in courses where 50% or more of the instruction is offered via distance education; internships, individual study, and study abroad are excluded.
 
• Starting with the Fall 2012 census, degree-seeking students who attended Mason previously and returned at the same degree level after attending another institution are considered continuing students. Prior to Fall 2012 they were considered transfer students.