Each program that reports their data for the annual program reporting process is sorted into one of four categories as described below. The categories guide the kinds of questions the program should be asking itself and directs the program towards the available data in APS to help answer those questions as it devises its action plan.
Category 1 Programs
Category 1 programs are those programs whose three-year enrollment trend and fall-to-fall program continuance ("retention" in APS) are both above the institutional benchmarks.
These programs are asked to identify any barriers to continued growth and success as well as to provide any suggestions to share with other programs that they believe are contributors to their success.
Category 2 Programs
Category 2 programs are those programs whose three-year enrollment trend is above the institutional benchmark but whose program continuance ("retention" in APS) is below the institutional benchmark.
These programs are asked to consider the following additional data and questions:
Median Course Completion Rate by Course Level data
- How are students generally performing at particular course levels in the program (200, 300, 400, 500)?
- Are those rates improving or worsening over time?
- Are these rates a surprise?
- Taken with the DWF data (see below), is this indicative of an area that needs curricular change or other program change?
Migration Out data
- How many students are switching to another program?
- Is that number increasing?
- Using the "View Destination Programs" data, are there any trends in which programs students are going to?
- Are more students potentially leaving the institution altogether (the "Other" category) than just changing majors?
Courses Taken by Students in Your Program (Total Across Past Three Years) data
- In which courses and sections are the program's majors failing?
- Are these departmental courses or external to the department?
- Is this a surprise?
- What, if anything, can be done to improve student performance in these courses?
- Are the DFW rates a surprise?
These programs are asked to consider the following additional data and questions:
Migration In data
- Is the number of students who are new to the institution coming into the program decreasing?
- Is the number of students who are coming to the program from another program within the institution decreasing?
- Using the "View Source Programs" data, are there any trends in which programs students are coming from?
Migration Out data
- How many students are switching to another program?
- Is that number increasing?
- Using the "View Destination Programs" data, are there any trends in which programs students are going to?
- Are more students potentially leaving the institution altogether (the "Other" category) than just changing majors?
An Education Report or Occupation Report from JobsEQ
This report may be able to
provide additional insights into external factors, such as regional
educational degree production and occupation demand, influencing program
enrollment. If you would like to receive a JobsEQ report for this
program, submit a JobsEQ request form.
- What does the JobsEQ report show about the number of institutions offering degree programs and degrees being produced in WVU's recruiting region for this degree program? (Is there a lot or not many?)
- How does tuition cost in competitor programs compare to WVU?
- What degree level is needed for entry into the main associated occupations with the degree?
- Are there many current job ads open in those occupations?
- Have those occupations been growing or shrinking? At what rate?
- What industries employ those occupations?
Category 4 Programs
Category 4 programs are those programs whose three-year enrollment
trend and program continuance
("retention" in APS) are both below the institutional benchmarks. Depending on the severity and duration of the trends, a subset of these programs may be asked to complete a full Board of Governors program review earlier than their regularly scheduled point in the cycle.
These programs are asked to consider the following additional data and questions:
These programs are asked to consider the following additional data and questions:
Courses Offered by the Department data
- Is the three-year trend in attempted SCH in the department's
courses decreasing?
- Is it worse than the college's three-year trend?
- Is
the decrease in program majors also accompanied by a decrease in SCH
delivered?
- Is the program delivering more SCH to service majors than to
its own majors?
- Is the number of SCH being delivered to service majors increasing or decreasing?
Median Course Completion Rate by Course Level data
- How are students generally performing at particular course levels in the program (200, 300, 400, 500)?
- Are those rates improving or worsening over time?
- Are these rates a surprise?
- Taken with the DWF data (see below), is this indicative of an area that needs curricular change or other program change?
Migration In data
- Is the number of students who are new to the institution coming
into the program decreasing?
- Is the number of students who are coming to
the program from another program within the institution decreasing?
- Using the "View Source Programs" data, are there any trends in which programs students are coming from?
Migration Out data
- How many students are switching to another program? Is that number
increasing?
- Using the "View Destination Programs" data, are there any
trends in which programs students are going to?
- Are more students potentially leaving the institution altogether (the "Other" category) than just changing majors?
Graduates from Programs data
- What's the three-year trend in gradates from the program?
- Is that decreasing in parallel to or in excess of the decrease in enrollment?
Courses Taken by Students in Your Program (Total Across Past Three Years) data
- In which courses and sections are the program's majors failing?
- Are these departmental courses or external to the department? Is this a surprise?
- What, if anything, can be done to improve student performance in these courses?
- Are the DFW rates a surprise?
An Education Report or Occupation Report from JobsEQ
This report may be able to
provide additional insights into external factors, such as regional
educational degree production and occupation demand, influencing program
enrollment. If you would like to recive a JobsEQ report for this
program, submit a JobsEQ request form.
- What does the JobsEQ report show about the number of institutions offering degree programs and degrees being produced in WVU's recruiting region for this degree program? Is there a lot or not many?
- How does tuition cost in competitor programs compare to WVU?
- What degree level is needed for entry into the main associated occupations with the degree?
- Are there many current job ads open in those occupations?
- Have those occupations been growing or shrinking? At what rate?
- What industries employ those occupations?