Uses and Best Practices

The Cost Study national norms and institutional reports can assist with academic program reviews by providing internal benchmarking at the department, college, and institution level. For example, you can benchmark department-level productivity and cost against college and institution averages.

Additionally, you can benchmark instructional activity per faculty (within a given academic unit/discipline) against the national norms. Here you can see that undergraduate SCHs are different than graduate SCHs and tenure/tenure-track faculty have different teaching loads that other faculty. These metrics can be computed at the department, college, and institution levels.