In an effort to continuous improve the layout and data available on our site, we have released an updated version of our staff page and our surveys page. Besides our homepage, these are the two most viewed non-report pages on the site. We thought it was in our interest to improve the aesthetic on these pages, as well as improve content of the page.
Survey page
This site now has navigation on the left-hand side of the page. We also created a separate page for each survey listed, and added more descriptive information about the survey and what we as a department and the University as a whole do with the data collected from the survey.
Staff page
Each staff members job title and responsibilities, areas of expertise and other pertinent career information have been added to this page.
February 18, 2011
February 10, 2011
Official Enrollment Statistics: Spring 2011 Released
The Spring 2011 Official Enrollment Statistics data has been loaded. The University of Minnesota system-wide total enrollment for all academic levels is 64,964. For each University of Minnesota Campus: Twin Cities - 50,067, Duluth - 11,054, Crookston - 1,998, Morris - 1,702, Rochester - 143. Visit the Official Enrollment Statistics page for more details.
February 4, 2011
Released: 2010 SERU Results
The Office of Institutional Research is releasing a series of reports based upon the results of the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) survey from Spring of 2010. The SERU survey is administered by the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California Berkeley. More information about the SERU can be found at: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/seru/.
The SERU Consortium was formed in 2008 and currently includes sixteen major US public research universities, including all nine undergraduate campuses of the University of California system, along with seven other Association of American Universities (AAU) institutions: the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Rutgers University, the University of Florida, University of Pittsburgh, University of Oregon, and the University of Texas at Austin.
The survey results are intended to be used broadly for many different purposes, but primarily for use in program reviews, student experience analysis and other policy decisions here at the University.
Summary level data will be available to all students who have enrolled from Spring 2010 to Spring 2011, current Staff and Faculty at the University of Minnesota.
The Office of Undergraduate Education was vital in the University's participation in the SERU Consortium as well as returning the results of this survey to the student body, whom are the real owner's of this data.
http://www.oir.umn.edu/surveys
The SERU Consortium was formed in 2008 and currently includes sixteen major US public research universities, including all nine undergraduate campuses of the University of California system, along with seven other Association of American Universities (AAU) institutions: the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Rutgers University, the University of Florida, University of Pittsburgh, University of Oregon, and the University of Texas at Austin.
The survey results are intended to be used broadly for many different purposes, but primarily for use in program reviews, student experience analysis and other policy decisions here at the University.
Summary level data will be available to all students who have enrolled from Spring 2010 to Spring 2011, current Staff and Faculty at the University of Minnesota.
The Office of Undergraduate Education was vital in the University's participation in the SERU Consortium as well as returning the results of this survey to the student body, whom are the real owner's of this data.
http://www.oir.umn.edu/surveys
February 3, 2011
Site Usage - Month of January
January marked our highest site traffic month since we have released, a lot of this was due to increased traffic to our publications and surveys page.
Visitors
We had 2,226 visits from 1,184 unique visitors during the month. Of these visitors, 8,929 pages were viewed, an average of 4.01 per visit. The average visitor spent 5 minutes on the site. The most visitors in one day (132) occurred on Tuesday, Jan 25th, however, the most page views (684) occurred on Wed, Jan 26th. We received visitors from 45 cities in Minnesota. In order of visits: Minneapolis, St Paul, Duluth, Circle Pines, Crookston and Rochester. 5 of those 6 cities contain a U of M campus.
Visitors by Browser: 48%, Firefox / 38%, Internet Explorer / 6.5%, Safari, 5.8% Chrome
Number of Visits by State: 1,709, Minnesota / 61, Illinois / 35, California/ 27 Nebraska
42 users visited the site via a mobile device (iPad, Cell Phone, etc).
Content
32.6% of users who visited the home page ended up looking some sort of Student data. The biggest gain came for the HR Employee Count page, which accounted for 6.7% of clicks on the home page.
Most Viewed Enrollment Reports: 18.6%, Academic Level / 7.6% Race/Ethnicity
Most Viewed Freshman Characteristics Report: 11%, ACT Composite / 9% Home Location
Miscellanea: 392 visitors viewed at least five pages. Besides the Home Page, the College Portrait page received the most direct landing visits, meaning the visitor did not click another link on our site to get to that page.
Traffic Sources
This month the traffic split was 52.5% direct / 15% site referral / 32% search engines.
Top Referring Site
en.wikipedia.org
lib.umn.edu
Visitors
We had 2,226 visits from 1,184 unique visitors during the month. Of these visitors, 8,929 pages were viewed, an average of 4.01 per visit. The average visitor spent 5 minutes on the site. The most visitors in one day (132) occurred on Tuesday, Jan 25th, however, the most page views (684) occurred on Wed, Jan 26th. We received visitors from 45 cities in Minnesota. In order of visits: Minneapolis, St Paul, Duluth, Circle Pines, Crookston and Rochester. 5 of those 6 cities contain a U of M campus.
Visitors by Browser: 48%, Firefox / 38%, Internet Explorer / 6.5%, Safari, 5.8% Chrome
Number of Visits by State: 1,709, Minnesota / 61, Illinois / 35, California/ 27 Nebraska
42 users visited the site via a mobile device (iPad, Cell Phone, etc).
Content
32.6% of users who visited the home page ended up looking some sort of Student data. The biggest gain came for the HR Employee Count page, which accounted for 6.7% of clicks on the home page.
Most Viewed Enrollment Reports: 18.6%, Academic Level / 7.6% Race/Ethnicity
Most Viewed Freshman Characteristics Report: 11%, ACT Composite / 9% Home Location
Miscellanea: 392 visitors viewed at least five pages. Besides the Home Page, the College Portrait page received the most direct landing visits, meaning the visitor did not click another link on our site to get to that page.
Traffic Sources
This month the traffic split was 52.5% direct / 15% site referral / 32% search engines.
Top Referring Site
en.wikipedia.org
lib.umn.edu
January 3, 2011
Site Usage - December and 2010 Review
This marks the end of December, and of 2010. Our re-built site has now been live for four months. December marked the first month we have started tracking file downloads. Usage was down because of the University-wide furlough and holiday vacation.
Visitors
We had 1,771 visits from 964 unique visitors during the month. Of these visitors, 7,865 pages were viewed, an average of 4.4 per visit. The average visitor spent 5 minutes and 31 seconds on the site. The most visitors in one day (118) occurred on Tues, Dec 7th, however, the most page views (695) occurred on Mon, Dec 13th. Visitors came from 43 of the 50 states and the district of Columbia. After Minnesota, the most visits came from Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan and California.
Visitors by Browser: 52%, Firefox / 36%, Internet Explorer / 6%, Safari, 6% Chrome
25 users visited the site via a mobile device (Android, iPhone, etc).
Content
40% of users who visited the home page ended up looking some sort of Student data, 20% at the Official Enrollment Statistics.
Most Viewed Enrollment Reports: 18.1%, Academic Level. The new "View All" report for one term received 6% of the reporting traffic.
Most Viewed Freshman Characteristics Report: 12.4%, ACT Composite / 12.4% High School Rank
Most Downloaded Files: Fall 2009 Retention Report, 2010 Employee and Student Headcounts by Department, 2009-10 Common Data Set.
Miscellanea: The newly released Student Aid Profile and Human Resource Count Data received 115 and 114 views respectively.
Traffic Sources
In November, the traffic split was 59% direct / 21% site referral / 19% search engines. This month
Top Search Terms (Search Engine(Total Vists): # of visits, search term)
UMN Search (272): 65, institutional research, 39, NSSE, 35, Metrics
Google (156):35, huesman stebleton immigrant, 9, institutional research
Top Referring Site (Non-UMN)
en.wikipedia.org: 60 visits
2010 Summary
From Sept 15th-Dec 31st we received 6,500+ visits from over 3,200 unique visitors. The heaviest traffic came on October 18th, when we released the 2010 Official Enrollment Statistics. We received just under 30,000 page views.
Staff, faculty and students from more than 200 Universities and Colleges around the world visited the site.
Student data accounted for more than 1 out of every 2 page views.
We received visits from 53 countries, including Japan, China, and France. In the United States, we received visitors from every state in the union except Wyoming.
Visitors
We had 1,771 visits from 964 unique visitors during the month. Of these visitors, 7,865 pages were viewed, an average of 4.4 per visit. The average visitor spent 5 minutes and 31 seconds on the site. The most visitors in one day (118) occurred on Tues, Dec 7th, however, the most page views (695) occurred on Mon, Dec 13th. Visitors came from 43 of the 50 states and the district of Columbia. After Minnesota, the most visits came from Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan and California.
Visitors by Browser: 52%, Firefox / 36%, Internet Explorer / 6%, Safari, 6% Chrome
25 users visited the site via a mobile device (Android, iPhone, etc).
Content
40% of users who visited the home page ended up looking some sort of Student data, 20% at the Official Enrollment Statistics.
Most Viewed Enrollment Reports: 18.1%, Academic Level. The new "View All" report for one term received 6% of the reporting traffic.
Most Viewed Freshman Characteristics Report: 12.4%, ACT Composite / 12.4% High School Rank
Most Downloaded Files: Fall 2009 Retention Report, 2010 Employee and Student Headcounts by Department, 2009-10 Common Data Set.
Miscellanea: The newly released Student Aid Profile and Human Resource Count Data received 115 and 114 views respectively.
Traffic Sources
In November, the traffic split was 59% direct / 21% site referral / 19% search engines. This month
Top Search Terms (Search Engine(Total Vists): # of visits, search term)
UMN Search (272): 65, institutional research, 39, NSSE, 35, Metrics
Google (156):35, huesman stebleton immigrant, 9, institutional research
Top Referring Site (Non-UMN)
en.wikipedia.org: 60 visits
2010 Summary
From Sept 15th-Dec 31st we received 6,500+ visits from over 3,200 unique visitors. The heaviest traffic came on October 18th, when we released the 2010 Official Enrollment Statistics. We received just under 30,000 page views.
Staff, faculty and students from more than 200 Universities and Colleges around the world visited the site.
Student data accounted for more than 1 out of every 2 page views.
We received visits from 53 countries, including Japan, China, and France. In the United States, we received visitors from every state in the union except Wyoming.
December 17, 2010
Released: Financial Aid Reports - All Undergraduates
The Office of Institutional Research (OIR) has a new student financial aid report. This new report includes admission and financial aid data for all undergraduate students (degree seeking and non-degree seeking, full and part time) by campus. The reports are by aid year which includes three terms (fall, spring, and summer) and starts with data from Fall 1999. Currently, there are eleven aid years of data available.
Admissions related data includes the number of new student (freshmen and transfer) that have applied, been admitted, and enrolled for an entire aid year (fall, spring, and summer terms).
Financial aid related data includes the number of students receiving aid, PELL Grants, and University Scholarships. Average aid amounts for the year by category is also included. Federal cost of attendance information for new freshmen that are Minnesota residents is also available.
The new reports also include average loan debt amount broken down by Minnesota residents and Non-Minnesota residents. The amount is calculated for those students that graduated during the report aid year. The average loan debt amount is further broken out to include and exclude PLUS (parent) loans. The loan amounts are those processed and captured in the University of Minnesota student systems, and would not include personal loans made by the student or parent. Average Loan Debts are not available prior to Fall 2003.
Special thanks to all the folks in the Office of Student Finance for their help on this new report.
The report can be found here.
Admissions related data includes the number of new student (freshmen and transfer) that have applied, been admitted, and enrolled for an entire aid year (fall, spring, and summer terms).
Financial aid related data includes the number of students receiving aid, PELL Grants, and University Scholarships. Average aid amounts for the year by category is also included. Federal cost of attendance information for new freshmen that are Minnesota residents is also available.
The new reports also include average loan debt amount broken down by Minnesota residents and Non-Minnesota residents. The amount is calculated for those students that graduated during the report aid year. The average loan debt amount is further broken out to include and exclude PLUS (parent) loans. The loan amounts are those processed and captured in the University of Minnesota student systems, and would not include personal loans made by the student or parent. Average Loan Debts are not available prior to Fall 2003.
Special thanks to all the folks in the Office of Student Finance for their help on this new report.
The report can be found here.
December 7, 2010
Released: 2010-2011 Common Data Set
The 2010-2011 Common Data Set file is now available for download. Staff member Andrea Galliger has provided a short description of the file:
For more details, visit the Common Data Set Initiative web site:
http://www.commondataset.org/
The Common Data Set (CDS) is a set of information whose content and definitons are agreed upon by data providers in the higher education community as well as publishers represented by the College Board, Peterson's, and U.S. News & World Report. These efforts are aimed at reducing the reporting burden on data providers while improving the accuracy of the information provided. An updated Common Data Set is produced once each academic year.
For more details, visit the Common Data Set Initiative web site:
http://www.commondataset.org/
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