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Graduate Program Profiles - Completion & Degrees

Last Updated
11/03/2024
Description

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.

Report URL
https://viz.wisc.edu/#/views/GraduateProgramProfiles-CompletionDegrees/Degrees
Data Cookbook URL (requires authorization)
https://uwmadison.datacookbook.com/institution/reports/47243/versions/76102
Data Domain(s)
Student Record
Access Restrictions
Publicly Available
Data Source Information
InfoAccess, Other
Data View Information
ACADEMIC_PLAN; ACADEMIC_SUBPLAN; RETENTION_PLAN_HISTORY; RETENTION_SEMESTER_HISTORY; RETENTION_STUDENT; STDNT_ETHNIC_REPORTING; RETENTION_AWARDS_MAIN; RETENTION_AWARDS_PLAN; RETENTION_AWARDS_SUBPLAN;
Update Schedule
Data are updated annually in July for the prior academic year.
Responsible Office
Graduate School Office of Academic Analysis, Planning, & Assessment
Important Notes

Information is limited to degree programs administered by the Graduate School. Excluded are a number of post-baccalaureate professional degrees solely supported by their home school, including certain medical and law degrees. More information on Graduate School programs can be found at https://grad.wisc.edu.

Presented data are as of the end of the term, and may therefore differ from other official publications using tenth day frozen enrollment records.

All displayed counts are distinct headcounts within specified filter conditions.
 

Graduate students who withdrew from the university are not reported as enrollments for the term of withdrawal. Graduate students are considered still enrolled in a program or plan if they were enrolled in that program or plan in any term during the last academic year and have not yet received their degree.

Time to degree figures are based on students receiving degrees between academic year 2009-2010 and academic year 2018-2019. Doctoral time to degree includes time spent on a Master's degree if that degree was in the same program.

Degree completion rates are measured at the end of spring, 2020, and are based on entrance cohorts between academic year 2004-2005 and academic year 2015-2016 for Doctoral degrees and between academic year 2007-2008 and academic year 2018-2019 for Master's degrees. Currently degree completion rates are only available at the Academic Plan level.

There are two parameters for Academic Plan and Named Option that can be controlled only via defining these parameters in a URL link to the workbook. The first parameter is 'Select Academic Plan (Universal Filter)', which controls which Academic Plan is defined for the entire workbook. The second parameter is 'Select Named Option (Universal Filter)', which controls a filter for what Named Option is defined for the entire workbook. In the event that the 'Select Academic Plan (Universal Filter)' is defined and the 'Select Named Option (Universal Filter)' is not, all Named Options for a given Academic Plan will be shown. In the event that a Named Option is defined that is not a Named Option for the defined Academic Plan, then no data will show.

Definitions

Name Functional Definition Data Domains
Academic Award Completion Term

The academic term in which an academic award was granted.

Academic Planning, Student Record
Academic Award Level Academic degree level corresponding to an academic award, i.e. bachelor's, master's, professional, doctoral, and other. Academic Planning, Student Record
Academic Level

Indicates whether a student is an undergraduate, graduate or professional, or special student. For undergraduates, students are freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior based on accumulated credits, not the duration of time at the University.

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Academic Plan

An area of study--such as a major, minor, or certificate--that is within an academic career.

Academic Planning, Student Record
Academic Year (Su,Fa,Sp)

An academic year consists of sequential summer, fall, and spring terms. For example, the 2021-22 academic years includes summer 2021, fall 2021, and spring 2022.

Academic Planning
Admission Rate

Percentage of applicants offered admission.

Student Record
Admitted Applicant

An applicant who is offered admission to the University.

Student Record
Applicant

An individual who has submitted an application to be considered for admission.

Student Record
Appointment

The action of an appointing authority to place a person in a position within the agency (UW-Madison) in accordance with the law and the Rules of the Administrator, Division of Merit Recruitment and Selection (DMRS). An appointment is effective when the employee reports for work or is in paid leave status on the agreed starting date and time.

Employee Record
Career (Academic Structure)

A broad grouping of students related to their degree objectives and admitting office. Used for tuition charges, awarding financial aid, grading scales and other operational functions.

Academic Planning, Student Record
Cohort

A specific group of students established for tracking purposes based on an event shared by the group of students. Examples include entrance cohorts and graduation cohorts.

Student Record
Degree Level

The type of award granted to a student who graduates in a given plan code.

Valid Values:

Bachelor's
Master's

Specialist
Research Doctorate
Clinical Doctorate

Academic Planning, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Disciplinary Division

The four divisions established on the basis of related subjects of teaching and research and are independent of colleges, schools, and departments, and include: Biological Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences.

Academic Planning, Employee Record
Enrollment Rate

Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled.

Student Record
Fellow (Graduate)

Fellow appointments are for UW-Madison graduate students holding a fellowship which provides freedom to devote full-time to obtaining an advanced degree.

Employee Record, Student Record
Fiscal Year

A period that an organization uses for accounting purposes and preparing financial statements. For the university, the fiscal year is from July 1 - June 30 (i.e., FY2016 = July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016). Summer is the first term in the university fiscal year.

Finance
Graduation Rate

The percentage of students in a cohort who have graduated as of a specified measurement period.

Student Record
International Students

Non-immigrant visitors who come to the United States temporarily to take classes.

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Legal Sex

A person's biological or reassigned sex as printed on legal documents.

Categories include Female (F), Male (M), Another Legal Sex (X), undisclosed (U).

Definition provided by the Data Guidelines for Legal Sex and Gender, endorsed by the Data Governance Council Feb 20, 2024 and published at https://uwmadison.box.com/s/8m8ibkv81kxbmkl5ijafbpkm2onicnms

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Male/Female

A binary "Male" or "Female" gender, based on what the individual has reported to the University.

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Matriculation Admit Type

The admissions status of the student in the academic career matriculation term. For example, FYR/First Year Student (applies to UGRD careers only), NEW/New to career (does not apply to UGRD careers), RAD/Readmitted to career, RET/Re-admitted with transfer work (applies to UGRD careers only), TRF/Transfer (does not apply to Grad and Special students).

Academic Planning, Student Record
Named Option

A named option is a formally documented sub-major within an academic major program.

Academic Planning, Student Record
Plan Code (Academic)

A code representing an approved academic offering such as a major, minor, or certificate within an academic career and program.

Academic Planning, Student Record
Plan Type (Academic Structure)

A code indicating the type of academic plan, related to to the degree or credential awarded to students who complete it.
CAP = Capstone
CRT = Certificate
MAJ = Major
MIN = Minor (Graduate School or Education)
TCH = Educator Certification
NON = Non-degree
HON = Honors
SP = Specialization
PRP = Pre College Program

Academic Planning, Student Record
Postdoc

An individual continuing training after receipt of the doctorate who is not a matriculated student. There are three types of postdoctoral appointments at UW-Madison: Research Associates, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Postdoctoral Trainees.

Employee Record, Research Administration
Program (Academic Structure)

A group of academic plans that share characteristics within an academic group. Academic program code controls administrative functions such as min credits, max credits, tuition rates, academic standing, grading schemes, full-time/part-time standing, financial aid primacy number.

Academic Planning, Student Record
Project Assistant

Project assistant or program assistant appointments are for UW-Madison graduate students who are employed to assist with research, training, or other academic programs or projects.

Employee Record, Student Record
Race/Ethnicity (Federal)

The methodology specified by the federal government for classifying individuals' self-reported race/ethnicity into a single race/ethnicity category. An individual who self-reports as Hispanic ethnicity is classified as Hispanic even if other racial identities are provided. Individuals who do not self-report as Hispanic are classified in their single race category if only one race was provided, or in a "2 or more races" category if more than one race is provided. Student race/ethnicity only applies to domestic (non-international) students.

Employee Record, Student Record
Research Assistant

A research assistant is a UW-Madison graduate student working towards a Master's or Ph.D. degree. An appointment involves work done primarily for the benefit of the individual's course of study and research and directly applicable to the individual's thesis or dissertation.

Employee Record, Student Record
Retention Rate

The percentage of students in a cohort who are enrolled in one measurement period and also enrolled in a subsequent measurement period.

Student Record
School/College of Academic Plan

Indicates the school/college that has ownership of the academic plan.

Academic Planning, Student Record
Student

Any person who is enrolled for study at UW-Madison for a specified academic period.

Student Record
Subplan Code (Academic Structure)

A code representing an approved curricular path option within an academic plan.

Academic Planning, Student Record
Subplan Type (Academic Structure)

A code indicating the type of subplan, related to the degree or credential awarded to students who complete it. OPT = named option, HON = Honors, TRK = Track.

Academic Planning, Student Record
Teaching Assistant

Teaching assistant appointments are for UW-Madison graduate students who have been assigned teaching responsibilities in an instructional department program under the supervision of a faculty member of the academic staff.

Employee Record, Student Record
Term

A period of instruction: Fall, Spring, or Summer.

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Term Admit Type

Indicates whether a student is a continuing, readmitted, reentry/transfer, new freshman, new transfer, or other new student in that term, except students who start as new freshmen in summer are shown as new freshmen in the following fall too, if enrolled.

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Time to Degree

Elapsed Calendar Time to Degree in years from academic career matriculation term start date to degree completion term conferral date. This is displayed to three decimal places.

Academic Planning, Student Record
Trainee (Graduate)

Trainee appointments are for UW-Madison graduate students who are supported by a traineeship while pursuing a particular course of study. Traineeships are ordinarily sponsored through an extramural training grant and are designated as traineeships under the terms of the grant.

Employee Record, Student Record
Underrepresented Student of Color

A domestic (non-international) student who identifies, alone or in combination with other racial/ethnic categories, as African American/Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic/Latino(a), Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, or one or more of the following Asian subcategories (Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, or Vietnamese).

Student Record
Yield Rate

The percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled.

Admissions