Reports

The Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment (IRPA) reports institutional data to federal and state agencies, accrediting bodies, and higher education publishers on behalf of the university.

To see student data on Enrollment, Degrees Granted, Retention and Persistence in easy-to-use interactive dashboards that give users the ability to customize views of the data to better meet their needs, please head over to IRPA's main page.

The Common Data Set (CDS) initiative is a collaborative effort among data providers in the higher education community and publishers as represented by the College Board, Peterson’s, and U.S. News & World Report. The combined goal of this collaboration is to improve the quality and accuracy of information provided to all involved in a student’s transition into higher education, as well as to reduce the reporting burden on data providers.

The CDS is a set of standards and definitions of data items rather than a survey instrument or set of data represented in a database. Each of the higher education surveys conducted by the participating publishers incorporates items from the CDS as well as unique items proprietary to each publisher. Consequently, the publisher's surveys differ in that they utilize varying numbers of items from the CDS. Definitions of data elements are maintained by the Common Data Set Initiative.​

Universities annually complete the CDS survey using standardized definitions which allows for comparisons across institutions. The data feed into college search engines and ranking lists. Each CDS reports on general university statistics relating to student enrollment and persistence, financial aid, annual student expenses, student life, academic offerings, and policies, as well as instructional faculty counts and class sizes.

The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is a system of interrelated surveys that collect institutional-level data from all U.S. post-secondary institutions that participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs (as required by the Higher Education Act of 1965). Submissions and trend data in areas such as enrollment, degree completions, graduation rates, faculty and staff, financial aid, and finances can be viewed in the IPEDS Data Center.​

The IPEDS survey collections cover various domains with individual variables defined in the IPEDS Glossary.

Each year, IPEDS of the Department of Education sends data feedback reports to institutions that submit data to its collections. The CSUB Data Feedback Reports compare CSUB with its selected comparison group institutions in enrollment, undergraduate admissions, undergraduate tuition and fees, financial aid, retention and graduation rates, degree awards, employees, faculty salary, revenues, and expenses, etc.​

Since 2011, six public four-year universities have been selected and submitted to IPEDS as the comparison group. The six institutions include both peer and aspiring institutions.

The available Data Feedback Reports are:

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) offers the College Navigator, a college search tool that uses the latest data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to provide detailed information on postsecondary institutions across the U.S. Institutions can be searched by location, program/major, level of award, and institution type and provides information in areas such as tuition and costs, admissions, enrollment, retention & graduation rates, financial aid, programs/majors, and more.

The U.S. Department of Education offers the College Scorecard, a college search and comparison tool that uses data provided through federal reporting from institutions, primarily drawn from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Institutions can be searched by name, location, field of study, acceptance and graduation rate, and degree type and provides information in areas such as costs, graduation & retention, financial aid, typical earnings, student body, test scores & acceptance, and fields of study.

NCAA legislation requires member schools to report enrollment (of both student body and student-athletes receiving athletics aid) and student body and student-athlete graduation rates to the NCAA each year. The NCAA then publishes reports on behalf of the member schools to comply with federal reporting requirements.

You can look up athlete graduation rates by school, conference, and state at the NCAA website by selecting the “SEARCH: Division” option in the sidebar. When using this website, it is important to understand the difference between the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) and the Federal Graduation Rate (FGR). In short, the GSR is a rate calculated by the NCAA and is not comparable to the general student population. To make sure you’re using an apples-to-apples comparison, use the Federal Graduation Rate.
The Student Achievement Measure (SAM) is supported by six sponsoring associations, working together to provide a more comprehensive and accurate picture of student progress and completion as students move across institutions and state boundaries. 

View current SAMs data for CSUB
View Fall 2016 FTF and Transfer Student Report

Fall 2016 FTF Bar Chart