Glossary of Terms In Administrative Data and Reports

This workbook exports a file of individual student record data used in the 'Completion' section of the 'Graduate School Explorer' visualization. It provides information on graduate admissions by providing relevant columns related to current and formerly enrolled student's time to degree, completion status, and supplemental program information.

This data visualization reports summary information on UW-Madison graduate program admissions and enrollment for the past five academic years. It includes data on admissions selectivity and yield rates, the demographics of applicants and enrolled students, as well as the home state or country of enrolled students. The visualization provides the same information as the Graduate School Admissions & Enrollment Data Visualization, but using a Universal Program filter, so that custom links can be created that are Plan/Named Option specific.

This workbook exports a file of individual student record data used in the 'Admissions' section of the 'Graduate School Explorer' visualization. It provides information on graduate admissions by providing relevant columns related to an applicant, the applicant's program, and the applicant's admission status.

This workbook presents select graduate program statistics to support annual Graduate Research Scholar Community reports. More information on the GRS Fellowships and Communities can be found at https://kb.wisc.edu/grad/33338.

Separate dashboards in the workbook display aggregate data on the demographic characteristics of applicants and enrolled students, as well as providing data related to funding, time-to-degree, and completion rates.

Filter controls apply to each dashboard individually and should be reapplied when changing dashboards. Each dashboard allows for comparison between the program and the larger GRS community to provide additional context to the reported numbers.

This workbook provides data about exceptions to undergraduate major requirements for graduates since Summer 2014. This includes total exception counts for current and past major versions, exceptions/awards with comparisons to Field of Study in School/College averages, counts of exceptions according to major requirement, as well as by courses used in substitution.

This Tableau workbook provides faculty salary data by department (including gender, faculty rank and years since degree) to assist in determining whether faculty members are appropriately and equitably paid in comparison to peers at UW-Madison.

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.

This data visualization reports summary information on UW-Madison graduate program admissions and enrollment for the past five academic years. It includes data on admissions selectivity and yield rates, the demographics of applicants and enrolled students, as well as the home state or country of enrolled students. 

This data visualization provides information about the financial support of graduate students at UW-Madison, including the percentage of fully funded students, their funding appointment types, and average monthly stipend levels. 

A summary of Master's Exit Survey responses. Presented data are from the current version of the survey, which was first administered in November, 2019. Data can be filtered by year, division, school/college, academic plan, named option, and selected student demographics.

A summary of Doctoral Student Experience Survey responses since November, 2019 when the survey was first administered. Data can be filtered by year, division, school/college, academic plan, and selected student demographics.

A summary of Doctoral Exit Survey responses from the past seven academic years. Data can be filtered by year, division, school/college, academic plan, and selected student demographics.

This workbook presents data on the national postsecondary institutions competing with UW-Madison graduate programs for new student admissions. Dashboards display the institutional enrollments of new graduate admits over the past seven years, as well as the reasons reported by admits for not accepting UW-Madison graduate program offers of admission.

This workbook exports a file of individual student record data used in the 'Completion Rates Characteristics' tab of the 'GRS Community Annual Reports' visualization. This workbook is intended to provide operational information to departments and programs preparing annual reports for Graduate Research Scholars Communities. It is not intended to provide official counts, trends, or summary information.

This workbook exports a file of individual student record data used in the 'Time-to-Degree Characteristics' tab of the 'GRS Community Annual Reports' visualization. This workbook is intended to provide operational information to departments and programs preparing annual reports for Graduate Research Scholars Communities. It is not intended to provide official counts, trends, or summary information.

This workbook exports a file of individual student record data used in the 'Characteristics of Enrolled Students' tab of the 'GRS Community Annual Reports' visualization. This workbook is intended to provide operational information to departments and programs preparing annual reports for Graduate Research Scholars Communities. It is not intended to provide official counts, trends, or summary information.

This workbook exports a file of individual student record data used in the 'Characteristics by Funding Level' tabs of the 'GRS Community Annual Reports' visualization. This workbook is intended to provide operational information to departments and programs preparing annual reports for Graduate Research Scholars Communities. It is not intended to provide official counts, trends, or summary information.

This Tableau workbook exports a file containing annual employment records of UW-Madison graduate degree program program alumni. Records are collected each year from publicly available web sources.

Separate dashboards in the workbook display aggregate data on the demographic and gender characteristics of enrolled students, program completion rates, as well as student satisfaction with both their graduate program and the broader campus diversity climate. Each dashboard allows data comparisons between the program and the larger disciplinary division to provide additional context to the reported numbers.

This workbook exports a file of individual student record data used in the 'GSSC Application Data' visualization. This workbook is intended to provide operational information to departments and programs preparing applications to the GSSC program. It is not intended to provide official counts, trends, or summary information.

This workbook exports a file of individual student record data used in the 'Characteristics of Applicants' tab of the 'GRS Community Annual Reports' visualization. This workbook is intended to provide operational information to departments and programs preparing annual reports for Graduate Research Scholars Communities. It is not intended to provide official counts, trends, or summary information.

This data visualization provides information about the financial support of graduate students at UW-Madison, including the percentage of fully funded students, their funding appointment types, and average monthly stipend levels. The data visualization utilizes a Universal Program filter.

This data visualization provides information on the early, mid, and late career outcomes of UW-Madison doctoral program alumni using a Universal Program filter. Reported data include employment status, job sector and location, and jobs in academia.

This data visualization reports summary information on UW-Madison graduate program degree and completion metrics, as well as peer comparison data from AAU peers for the same metrics. Metrics include Time-to-Degree, Completion rate, and Retention rate.

This data visualization reports summary information on UW-Madison graduate program degrees, time-to-degree, completion rate, retention rate, and completion over time for the past four three year cohorts of Master's and Doctoral students. It includes breakdown by sex, citizenship status, and minority status, as well as filtering by degree level, division, school/college, plan, named option, and academic year/cohort. The data visualization utilizes a Universal Program filter.

This data visualization reports summary information on UW-Madison graduate program degrees, time-to-degree, completion rate, retention rate, and completion over time for the past four three year cohorts of Master's and Doctoral students. It includes breakdown by sex, citizenship status, and minority status, as well as filtering by degree level, division, school/college, plan, named option, and academic year/cohort. 

This visualization provides average faculty salaries at UW-Madison and official salary peer institutions beginning with 2018-19. It also shows the percentage gap between UW-Madison and peer schools/colleges and departments. Users can see the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code used to match departments across institutions in each year.

The number and percentage of bachelor's degree recipients who completed UW-Madison courses is shown by major, school/college, admit type, tuition residency and semester type (when the course was taken).

The four pages in this workbook show degrees and awarded majors conferred in the last 5 years. Each tab is broken down by either term or academic year and includes both a table and a trend graph. The table includes degree recipient demographic information (Legal Sex and Race/Ethnicity) and award information (School/College, Award Level, Awarded Major, and Award Description). These visualizations only include data about degrees that have been awarded. The data are refreshed nightly.

This is a visualization of student credit hours using the Credits Follow the Instructor (CFI) data system which apportions course credits to the section level and then attributes course section credits to the academic unit funding the instructor. This attribution is often different than the academic unit that coordinates the course subject listing(s). The number of student credits hours, the change from previous like semesters, and the relationship between funding department and subject listing(s) are all provided. Student credit hours for fall and spring semesters between fall 2014 and fall 2023 are included.

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.

This workbook shows the full tuition schedule and tuition structures used by UW-Madison programs. The tuition structure and rates depend on the degree-level of the program, it's school/college, and several other factors. Because of this complexity users are able to select an academic program and see the tuition structure it uses and the rates associated with it.

This workbook shows course D/F/drop rates over time and for several demographic categories. It also shows the components of the D/F/drop rate (% of D/F/drops that are Ds, Fs, or drops) and courses where rates of D/F/drops are inequitable by demographic category.

This data visualization reports student metrics over the past ten years for degree programs in the graduate career. It provides information on student admissions, enrollment, funding, degrees, program completion, and career outcomes.