Site Usage: September - November 2011

This update covers September 1st - November 30th, 2011 - 90 days. This quarter featured a few large spikes in traffic due to links in the U of M Brief and 32% increase in visitors as compared to the Summer quarter.



Visitors
We had 12,746 visits from 9,269 unique visitors during this quarter. Of these visitors, 49,972 pages were viewed, an average of 3.92 per visit. The most visits in one day, 430, occurred on October 26th. This was due to a featured article from University Relations which was featured on the weekly Brief newsletter. Mobile devices accounted for 4.1% of the traffic. Mobile usage has increased steadily over the past year, but is still a small segment of the overall visits.



Who Visited the Site?
Over this quarter we received visits from 86 countries and every state in the US . The top 5 visitor countries (excluding the US) were China, Ecuador, India, Canada and Japan. Chinese language speakers were the largest group of non-native English speaking visitors. The top 5 visitor states (excluding MN) were Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Texas and New York. 4,650 of the visits came from the University of Minnesota network.



Traffic Sources
This month the traffic split was 28% direct / 56% site referral / 16% search engines. A large number of referrals arrive from the Campus Facts page on the umn.edu home page. The Facebook and Wikipedia also contributed a notable amount of traffic. Believe it or not, two visitors came from the University of Minnesota Russian language Wikipedia page.

Keywords
687 different combinations of search keywords resulted in a visit. The majority of the visits come from a search for "oir", "institutional research", etc, and they generally are recurring visits. The most new visits came from the keywords "hr" and "university of minnesota enrollment 2011"

2011 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities NSSE Results

The Office of Institutional Research is pleased to announce the release of the interactive results from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) 2011 administration. The survey is sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs, coordinated by OIR, and administered by the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University.

These reports are accessible to current faculty, staff and students of the University. They allow for the browsing of overall Twin Cities campus and college level NSSE results, as-well-as comparing responses of First-year students to Senior students.

Student Aid Profile: 2010-2011

The Student Aid Profile reports have been updated with the 2010-2011 aid year data. This update also includes the Student Aid Profile: Trends report. As noted during when the report was released, this table contains a vast amount of information about the institution, including:

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.

Released: Degrees & Certificates Awarded: 2010-2011

The Degrees & Certificates Awarded: 2010-11 have been released. The data in this report represents one academic year, 2011, which includes all degrees conferred between July 1, 2010 and June 30th, 2011.

For the 2011 Academic Year, the University of Minnesota System awarded 14,836 degrees (12,102 from the Twin Cities campus) and 525 certificates. More details can be found in the reports, including SOC and Gender breaks and the counts by major.

OIR First: Video Presentation

On Friday we posted a record version of Len's "Victims of Our Success: How OIR Survived the Flood of Ad-Hoc Requests for Faculty/Staff Satisfaction Survey Data" presentation which he gave at AIRUM 2011. You can find the video on our presentations page in the section with the title above (Victims of Our Success...) under presentation resources.

Released: 2011 HR Data and Reports

2011 HR Data
The HR Employee Head count report and PDF document has been updated with 2011 data. The Employee and Student Head Counts/Credit Hours for Fall 2011 has been posted. We have also posted an Excel version of this file, available on the HR page.

Updated: Enrollment Map, Student Performance

The Fall Enrollment by Home Location map has been updated to display a data table of the data available on the map. International students were previously identified only by home location, which is the location from which they applied. The map now uses the student's citizenship country which provides a more accurate representation. The data is also available to download.

The Undergraduate Student Performance reports, which contains Term/Cumulative GPA, Credits Completed and Credits Completed Percentage for all campuses, are now available to current students (Spring 2010-current term enrollment), faculty and staff. Previously, the data was open to a much more limited audience.