Table of Contents
General Filters
| Filter Name | Definition |
| Cohort | Cohort by academic year. |
| Cohort Term | Term in which the student first enrolled in at least one course. Options:
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| Credential Type Sought | Credential the student is seeking in the first term of their first academic year. Options:
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| Enrollment Type | Student’s enrollment type. Options:
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| Attendance | Student’s attendance status. Options:
Full time/part time designation is based on your institution’s individual thresholds and is determined in the first term. We collect threshold information as part of the onboarding process. |
| Program of Study | Primary two-digit CIP code your institution submitted to our enrollment reporting team (the latest CIP code for the student’s first academic year). The code might appear in the multi-select filter, e.g. 13 – Education or 22 – Legal Professions and Studies. |
| Past Dual/Summer Enrollment | Student was a previous dual/concurrent high school enrollment student prior to their first term enrolled with credential-seeking status and/or enrolled in summer work prior to their first term of enrollment with credential-seeking status. Options:
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| Age Group | A student’s age is based on the Date of Birth field in your course file and is calculated as of the student’s term begin date in the year they first enrolled at your institution. Options:
Once a student reaches 24, they are classified as “Older than 24.” |
| Race/Ethnicity | A student’s race/ethnicity is based on the values for Race and Ethnicity reported in your cohort file. Options:
If the student reports multiple race values, the student will be classified as Two or more races. If no race/ethnicity information is available, the student will be classified as Unknown. |
| Gender | Student’s gender. Options:
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| Pell Grant Recipient | A student’s Pell status in any term of their first academic year based on the Pell Recipient field in your course file.
If the student’s Pell status is unknown, we will check if the Pell Grant Recipient flag was populated for this student in your enrollment reporting to the Clearinghouse. If a value is present for the student in their first academic year at your institution, that value will be used to determine Pell status. |
| First Generation | Whether a student is the first member of their immediate family to attend a college or university. Neither of the student’s biological or adoptive parents has ever attended a college or university.
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| GPA Range | Student’s cumulative grade point average earned for all terms up to and including the current term. Based on credits used toward student’s credential and reported on a four-point scale. Options:
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| Math Prep | Whether the student was determined to be college ready in math upon entry. Based on your institution’s standard math placement policies (e.g. test scores, high school GPA, high school courses, etc.). Options:
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| English Prep | Whether the student was determined to be college ready in English upon entry. Based on your institution’s standard English placement policies (e.g. test scores, high school GPA, high school courses, etc.). Options:
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Dashboard Specific Filters
Outcomes
| Filter Name | Definition |
| Outcome At | Allows you to view student outcomes at the end of their 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, and 8th academic years. |
Gateway
| Filter Name | Definition |
| Gateway Status | Whether a student is required to take English Gateway courses, Math Gateway courses, or both. Options:
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| Gateway Grade | For students who are required to take gateway course(s) the highest grade they received in their attempted gateway course(s) in their first academic year (single-select). Options:
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Time to Credential
| Filter Name | Definition |
| Academic Year | Academic year to which the record belongs. |
Transfer
| Filter Name | Definition |
| Earned Credit Milestone | The amount of credits the student earned from your institution prior to transfer. |
| Transferred Within | To track students’ transfer activity within a range of years of enrollment. Options:
Only data for cohorts in which the full time frame has elapsed will be displayed. |
| Destination Institution Type | The type of institution student transferred to. Options:
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Credit Accumulation Rate
| Filter Name | Definition |
| Select Credit Thresholds | Threshold used to calculate credit accumulation rate. Options:
The credit threshold is not necessarily the same as the attendance status threshold. |
| Academic Year | How many years the student has completed. Multiplies the number of credits you selected by the number of academic years. Options:
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Retention/Persistence Term-To-Term
| Filter Name | Definition |
| Term Name | Academic term(s) you would like to see represented in the graph. Allows for like-for-like comparisons to previous terms. For example, if you select Fall both fall terms in the first two academic years will be shown. Options:
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Dimensions
| Dropdown Name | Definition |
| Select Dimension | A set of qualifiers that describe data in a more granular way (e.g. enrollment by term, application count by school, etc.). Options:
Dimension options are the same as the general filters but remain constant in the quadrants with which they are associated. |
