Student Data Enhancements

System-wide Totals
The enrollment reports now show a University of Minnesota System-wide total when viewing the Headcount Data (the reports on the left-hand column which show one term of data). This had been requested for those who work on a system level. Previously, one would have been required to add up each of the Campus totals to get the system total.



"All on one page" report
One change a few people had requested was the ability to see all of the dimensions we made available in the Headcount reports available on one page, so it could be printed. We have added the ability to do just this. If you would like to utilize this, find the link on the bottom of the left-hand column which says "All of the above on one page".



Data to Fall 2000/Fall 2001
The Official Student Enrollment data and the New Freshman Characteristics data had been limited to Fall 2005 due to limits of our trend data. We have now opened up the one-term reports for all the available terms (Fall 2000 for Enrollment, Fall 2001 for Freshman Characteristics).

2010 HR Reports, Presentations and HEOA released

2010 HR Data
The HR Employee Counts PDF report has been updated with 2010 data and the Employee and Student Head Counts/Credit Hours for Fall 2010 has been posted. We have also posted an Excel version of this file, available on the HR page.

Fall 2010 Presentations
The presentations from AIRUM 2010 have been posted. The University had six presentations at the event, four of which came from our office. A presentation from NASPA 2010 has also been posted.

Higher Education Opportunity Act
In accordance with the Higher Education Opportunity Act, created in 2008, the University of Minnesota is providing graduation rates by certain federal aid group.

Site Usage - Month of October

This marks the end of the second month live. The big releases that occurred in October were the release of the Fall 2010 Enrollment and Freshman Characteristics data, the Enrollment maps Google mash-up, and the Degrees and Certificates Awarded 2010 data. For who are wondering, the usage data is collected and analyzed via Google Analytics.

Visitors
We had 1,994 visits from 1,094 unique visitors during the month. Of these visitors, 9,926 pages were viewed, an average of 4.98 per visit. The average visitor spent 4 minutes and 22 seconds on the site. The most visitors in one day (127) occurred on Monday, Oct 18th, however, the most page views (1,064) occurred on Thursday, Oct 14th. We received visitors from 40 of the 50 states in the United States.



Visitors by Browser: 49.6%, Firefox / 36.3%, Internet Explorer / 7.2%, Safari, 6.5% Chrome

Number of Visits by State: 1,567, Minnesota / 43, California / 33, Illinois / 29 Wisconsin

26 users visited the site via a mobile device (iPad, Cell Phone, etc).

Content
50% of users who visited the home page ended up looking some sort of Student data, 28% at the Official Enrollment Statistics. The Fall 2010 Enrollment statistics were viewed 969 times, and 85% of those visits resulted in the viewing of at least one report.

Most Viewed Enrollment Reports: 18.8%, Academic Level / 11.6% Registration Status

Most Viewed Freshman Characteristics Report: 14%, ACT Composite / 11% High School Rank

The Fall Enrollment Map was viewed 118 times.

Traffic Sources
Last month, 85% of people browsed directly to www.oir.umn.edu. As anticipated, this number was reduced, and the number of referrals and searches increased. This month the traffic split was 66% direct / 18% site referral / 16% search engines.

Top Search Terms (Search Engine(Total Vists): # of visits, search term)
UMN Search (174): 39, institutional research, 32 oir
Google (119): 11, nsse university minnesota, 10 university of minnesota tuition history

Degrees & Certificates Awarded: 2009-10 Data Released

Degrees & Certificates Awarded: 2009-10

The data for the 2009-10 academic year has been loaded for the Degrees & Certificates Awarded reports. This includes reports by College, Major and CIP Code as well as trend data by degree level, gender, and Student of Color groups.

http://www.oir.umn.edu/student/degrees

New Freshman Characteristics: Totals

The data for the New Freshman Characteristics has been updated to include a total row on the percentiles and statistics report for the Twin Cities and Duluth campuses.

Kudos to the users who informed us regarding the missing row.

Enrollment Data: Fall 2010 Released

Fall 2010 Data
The Fall 2010 Official Enrollment Statistics and New Freshman Characteristics data has been loaded.

Race/Ethnicity (Multi) Data re-loaded
The Official Enrollment Report for Race/Ethnicity (Multi), the report which also breaks out students who report more than one Race/Ethnicity group, was reloaded. The data counting the international students was incorrect, though the number of affected students was quite low. It should now match the numbers found on the Data Warehouse.

Historical Student Headcounts
The Historical Student Headcounts page was also updated, and corrected. The graph shows only Twin Cities campus, previously the 2009-10 value had 57 extra students from the Rochester campus.


Fall Enrollment Map
We have released a new tool to coincide with the Fall 2010 data, the Enrollment Map. This tool maps the Official Enrollment Home Location Code (HLC) to a latitude and longitude, then using the Google Maps API, places a marker based upon the number of students at the corresponding HLC. Data can be viewed by Term, Campus, Level and College. It is a neat way to visualize the enrollment.

http://www.oir.umn.edu/student/enrollment_map

Site Usage - Month of September

Our first "month" live has ended. Since the site launched on September 16th, we have a slightly small data set, but we still have enough data to have some fun with numbers! Enjoy a glance into our site usage...

Visitors
We had exactly 1,000 visits from 579 unique visitors during the month. Of these visitors, 4,279 pages were viewed, an average of 4.29 per visit. The average visitor spent 2 minutes and 55 seconds on the site. The most visitors in one day (92) occurred on Monday, Sept 20th, however, the most page views (544) occurred on Tuesday, Sept 21st. 20% of our visitors have visited the site at least 9 times.

Visitors by Browser: 50.8%, Firefox / 34.9%, Internet Explorer / 7.9%, Safari

Number of Visits by State: 773, Minnesota / 25, Illinois / 15, Texas, Indiana

17 users visited the site via a mobile device (iPad, Cell Phone, etc).

Content
52% of users who visited the home page ended up looking some sort of Student data, 24% at the Official Enrollment Statistics.

Most Viewed Enrollment Reports: 20.3%, Academic Level / 7%, Race/Ethnicity

Most Viewed Freshman Characteristics Report: 14%, ACT Composite / 11% High School Rank

Most Viewed Degrees Awarded Report: 36%, Degrees by College/Major

Traffic Sources
85% of people browsed directly to www.oir.umn.edu. This will likely drop as our site becomes indexed and (hopefully) more highly ranked in search engine results. We have received a small number of hits from Google and Bing, but expect more based on past data.