Credit Hours and Student Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Details

Credit hours attempted by derived course level (100-900) and student full-time equivalent (FTE), by student career (undergraduate, graduate, law) by academic/fiscal years. For fiscal years, semesters include summer, fall, spring; for academic years, semesters include fall and spring. Student FTE calculations use 15.0 credit hours for undergraduate students and 12.0 credit hours for graduate/law students. Users can evaluate credit hours and student FTE across four sets of filters: time, college/dept, subject and student.

  • Time filters allow for the data to be sliced by fiscal year, academic year, or semester.
  • College/dept filters allow for the data to be sliced by college and/or department.
  • Subject filters allow for the data to be sliced by course subjects and regular/outreach course types. If a department has multiple subjects, those subjects will be auto-filtered when the user indicates the given college/department. Or, the user can pick subjects from the Subject list. Use the 'academic org' filter option to slice data by regular/outreach course type.
  • Student filters allow for the data to be sliced by student career and student program/plan (college/major).

Examples

Users can pull a department credit hour report for a fiscal year by selecting the following:

Time filters: fiscal year = fiscal year for review
College/dept filters: department = department for review
Subject filters: subject(s) for review, if the department has more than one subject

Users can pull the undergraduate student FTE for a department for a fall semester, would select the following:

Time filters: semester = Fall semester for review
College/dept filters: department = department for review
Student filters: career = undergraduate, student plan = plans within that department

If users want to pull data specific to graduate or law careers, be sure to set your Student Filters: career option as follows:

For graduate - career filters: select graduate but be sure to deselect law

For law - law career: select law but be sure to deselected graduate

Note: If the student plans indicated are not specific to the department indicated, all students registered for courses within the department/subject, i.e. both majors and non-majors.

Contact Us

Gregory P. Barker, Ph.D.
Executive Director for Institutional Research and Analytics
gbarker1@niu.edu

Jeff Reynolds
Director, Decision Support and Analysis
jreynolds@niu.edu

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