Glossary of Selection Variables

A.  Enrollment Variables

1)  Undergraduate full time enrollment (FTE)
Definition:  Total fall full-time equivalent (FTE) undergraduate students

Formula:  Fulltime undergraduate headcount + (Number of Parttime undergraduate credits/15)

2)  Graduate full time enrollment (FTE)
Definition:  Total full-time equivalent (FTE) graduate students

Formula:  12-month instructional activity graduate credits / 24

3)  Full time undergraduate headcount
Definition:  Total number of students enrolled as full time undergraduates


4)  Percent FT enrollment
Definition:  Percent of undergraduates who are enrolled as full-time students

Formula:  Parttime undergraduate headcount / Total undergraduate headcount


5)  First-year enrollment
Definition:  Total fall full-time, first-year undergraduate headcount

Formula:   Fulltime traditional undergraduates + Fulltime LLL undergraduates


6)  Percent of students who transfer to CCC from 2- or 4-year schools
Definition:  Percent of undergradutes attending CCC for the first time but known to have previously attended a postsecondary institution at the undergraduate level

Formula:   Number of undergraduates who have attended a postsecondary institution / Total undergraduate headcount


7)  Percent of enrollment age 25 and over
Definition:  Percent of undergraduates age 25 and older

Formula:   Number of undergraduates age 25 and older / Total undergraduate headcount

Academics / Residence Variables

8)  Percent of graduates with Arts/Sciences as first major
Definition:  Percent of stduents receiving bachelor degrees in disciplines other than accounting, business, education, management, nuclear medicine, nursing, nutrition and social work during the most recently reported academic year.

Formula:  Number of bachelor degrees awarded in disciplines other than those defined / Total bachelor degrees awarded


9)  Student-faculty ratio
Definition:  Total student FTE divided by instructional faculty FTE

Formula:  Total student FTE / (FT instructional faculty + PT instructional faculty / 3)


10)  Percent of faculty who are full-time
Definition:  FTE of full-time instructional faculty as a percentage of total instructional faculty FTE

Formula:  FT instructional faculty / (FT instructional faculty + PT instructional faculty / 3)


11)  Percent of students residing on campus
Definition:  Students residing on campus as a percentage of traditional undergraduates

Formula:  Dormitory capacity / Total number of students under age 25

Freshmen Variables

12)  SAT 25th percentile
Definition:  The score at which 25 percent o freshmen submitting test scores to an institution scored at or below


13)  SAT 75th percentile
Definition:  The score at which 75 percent of freshment submitting test scores to an institution scored at or below


14)  Percent with Pell grants
Definition:  Percent of students receiving Pell grants

Formula:  Number of students receiving Pell grants / FT undergraduates

Financial Variables

15)  Full-time tuition and fees
Definition:  The published price of tuition and fees for full-time, first-time, first-year students


16)  Educational and general expenditures per FTE
Definition:  Total educational and general expenditures divided by total student FTE

Formula:  Total educational and general expenditures / Total student FTE


17)  Endowment per FTE
Definition:  Value of the endowment at the end of the fiscal year divided by total student FTE

Formula:  Total endowment / Total student FTE


18)  Tuition dependency
Definition:  The percentage of educational and general expenditures covered by total net tuition revenue

Formula:  [(Total tution and fees + Total allowance applied to tuition and fees) - (Total funded institutional grants + Total unfunded institutional grants) ] /  Total expenses