Glossary of Terms In Administrative Data and Reports

The Pell rate is defined as the number of enrolled students who have received a Pell grant disbursement  over the total number of undergraduate enrollments. Enrollment data are frozen as of the fall census date. Pell disbursement data will be updated weekly.

The first dashboard highlights the Pell rate and count of Pell recipients in UW-Madison's undergraduate programs for the most recent fall semester.

The second dashboard looks at the rate and count of Pell recipients over the time.

This workbook is intended to address questions about the degree to which students' intended majors are accurate predictors of their eventual graduation majors. The accuracy of a student's intended major has implications for enrollment and curricular planning, advising, staffing, and the provision of other academic services.

Student enrollments in majors, named options, certificates, and doctoral minors awarded by UW-Madison can be disaggregated by degree level, school/college, department, and major for all terms since summer 2000 in which data is available. Student demographic information is provided, including gender, full-time/part-time status, residency status, federal racial/ethnic category, international status, and term admit type.

Includes time-to-degree, measured in elapsed calendar years, for bachelors degree recipients by major and by several demographic categories. Time-to-degree for similar majors at public peer institutions is also provided.

Degrees, named options, certificates, and doctoral minors awarded by UW-Madison since summer 1999 can be disaggregated by degree level, school/college, department, and major. Degree recipient demographic information is provided, including gender, student of color status, underrepresented student of color status, and international status.