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Total State and Local Appropriations Per FTE Student:

The total amount of revenue from state and local appropriations. State appropriations are revenues received by the institution through acts of a state legislative body (except grants and contracts and capital appropriations). Funds reported in this category are for meeting current operating expenses, not for specific projects or programs. Local appropriations are revenues from appropriations by a governmental entity below the state level.

Net Tuition Per FTE Student:

Net tuition revenue is the amount of money the institution takes in from students (including fees) net of all institutional grant aid provided.

Total Revenues All Sources Per FTE Student:

Total revenue is the sum of net tuition; federal, state, and local appropriations, grants, and contracts; private gifts, grants, and contracts; investment return; endowment income; auxiliaries; hospitals; and other independent operations.

Net Change in State/Local Appropriations and Net Tuition Per FTE Student:

Year-to-year change in the sum of State/Local Appropriations plus Net tuition.

Expenditures

Instructional Expenditures Per FTE Student:

Includes expenses of the colleges, schools, departments, and other instructional divisions of the institution and expenses for departmental research and public service that are not separately budgeted. Includes general academic instruction, occupational and vocational instruction, community education, preparatory and adult basic education, and regular, special, and extension sessions. Also includes expenses for both credit and non-credit activities. Excludes expenses for academic administration where the primary function is administration (e.g., academic deans). Information technology expenses related to instructional activities are included if the institution separately budgets and expenses information technology resources (otherwise these expenses are included in academic support).

Student Services Expenditures Per FTE Student:

Includes expenses for admissions, registrar activities, and activities whose primary purpose is to contribute to student's emotional and physical well-being and to their intellectual, cultural, and social development outside the context of the formal instructional program. Examples include student activities, cultural events, student newspapers, intramural athletics, student organizations, supplemental instruction outside the normal administration, and student records. Intercollegiate athletics and student health services may also be included except when operated as self - supporting auxiliary enterprises. Also may include information technology expenses related to student service activities if the institution separately budgets and expenses information technology resources (otherwise these expenses are included in institutional support.).

Total Education and Related Expenditures Per FTE Student:

Total spending on direct educational costs. Education and related expenses includes spending on instruction, student services, and the education share of spending on academic support, institutional support, and operations and maintenance (i.e. "overhead").

Total Education and Related Expenditures Per Degree Awarded:

A measure of spending on direct educational costs per degree (in contrast to cost per student enrolled); calculated as the total education and related expenses (for all students) divided by all degrees (undergraduate, graduate, and professional) awarded in that year.

Research and Economic Impact

Total Research Appropriations and Grants Per FTE Student:

The total amount of revenue coming from federal appropriations, grants, and contracts. Federal appropriations are revenues received by the institution through acts of a federal legislative body. Federal, state, and local grants and contracts are revenues from governmental agencies that are for training programs, research, or public service activities for which expenditures are reimbursable under the terms of a government grant or contract. Excludes Pell grants.

Research Expenditures Per FTE Student:

Includes expenses for activities commissioned by an outside agency specifically organized to produce research outcomes. These research activities - either external to the institution or separately budgeted by an organizational unit within the institution - include institutes and research centers, and individual and project research. This function does not include non-research sponsored programs (e.g., training programs). Also included are information technology expenses related to research activities if the institution separately budgets and expenses information technology resources (otherwise these expenses are included in academic support.)

Public Service Expenditures Per FTE Student:

Includes expenses for activities established primarily to provide non-instructional services beneficial to individuals and groups external to the institution. Examples are conferences, institutes, general advisory service, reference bureaus, and similar services provided to particular sectors of the community. This function includes expenses for community services, cooperative extension services, and public broadcasting services. Also includes information technology expenses related to the public service activities if the institution separately budgets and expenses information technology resources (otherwise these expenses are included in academic support).

Total Graduate Headcount Enrollment:

The total number of graduate and first professional students enrolled based on the fall enrollment survey.

Affordability and Student Opportunity

In-State Tuition and Fees Per FTE Undergraduate Student:

Sometimes called "sticker price", this is the published amount of money that covers tuition and required fees for in-state full-time undergraduate students.

Scholarships and Fellowships Per FTE Student:

Expenditures associated with unrestricted scholarships and fellowships.

Total Minority Enrollment Percentage of Total Enrollment:

Total enrollment of American Indian, Asian, Black and Hispanic students as a percentage of total headcount enrollments.

Total Underrepresented Minority Enrollment Percentage of Total Enrollment:

Total enrollment of American Indian, Black and Hispanic students as a percentage of total headcount enrollments.

Student Success

Retention of First-Time Freshmen:

The percent of the previous year's fall first-time full-time freshman cohort (minus exclusions) that re-enrolled at the institution as either full-time or part-time the following fall.

Timeliness of Degree Completion: Percent Graduating Within 6 Years:

Percentage of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students graduating within 150 percent of normal time.

Total Degrees Awarded:

The total number of degrees conferred by a college, university, or other postsecondary education institution as official recognition for the successful completion of a program of studies.

Total Degrees Awarded Per 100 FTE Students:

The total number of degrees granted per 100 full time equivalent students enrolled.