Degrees Awarded

Degrees Awarded Annually

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Degrees Awarded			7/8/14

Discussion

Degrees Awarded – Data Sources

The data presented come from Banner Student data, maintained by the Registrar, using a Brio/Hyperion query. Each degree awarded is matched with the department and college currently offering the program using the Banner curriculum code, consisting of the degree college code, degree code, and major code. Obsolete and discontinued college-degree-major codes are assigned to the current department and college that would have been responsible for that program, using a table maintained by IR and Assessment.

Several programs are assigned to departments based on the department of the individual student’s primary advisor. In order for these to be assigned correctly, the student’s advisor must be correct (use Banner form SGAADVR to verify/correct this information), and also the advisor’s primary department must be correct (use Banner form SIAINST to verify this information – send requests for corrections to the Registrar’s office). It is important for each advisor’s primary department to be the primary academic department for the advisor, lest the students advised be assigned to an administrative or non-academic unit (e.g. avoid using the administrative unit as the primary department for faculty currently in an administrative position). The specific majors assigned according to the advisor department are:

• Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

• Bioregional Planning & Community Design

• Education

• Environmental Science (including the Biological, Physical and Social Science options)

• Fire Ecology & Management

• Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences (obsolete but still found in the historical files)

• Interdisciplinary Studies

• Natural Resources

• Neuroscience

• Water Resources

The numbers in each cell of these tables represent the number of students who were awarded a specific degree in any given semester each year. We are counting “degrees awarded,” not the number of students who graduated (which would be a lower number) nor the number of majors those students completed (which would be a higher number). The values are determined using the “count distinct” function. Students with multiple majors are counted once in each cell in the table as displayed, with the exception that the same degree awarded in different terms during a year has been counted each term. For example:

A student who completes a BA degree with two majors in different departments, e.g. History and Political Science, in the same term of a given year is counted once on all rows for that year, except for those tables showing departments, where he or she is counted once in each History and Political Science.

A student who completes a BS degree in the fall with a major in History and completes a second BS with a major in Political Science in the spring of the same year is counted twice on all rows for that year, except for those tables showing the departments, degrees or majors, where he or she is counted once in each History and Political Science.

A student who completes a BA degree with two majors in the same department, e.g. Advertising and Public Relations, in the same term of a given year is counted once on all rows for that year, except for those tables showing the majors, where he or she is counted once in each Advertising and Public Relations.

A student completes two different degrees in the same department, e.g. a BS ChemE with a major in Chemical Engineering and a BS EnvS with a major in Environmental Science (and a primary advisor in the Chemical Engineering department) is counted twice in all tables regardless of the rows displayed, except for those showing the degree and/or major, where he or she is counted once on each row.

Please contact Institutional Research and Assessment if you have questions about these tables, the assignment of degrees and majors to departments and/or colleges, or to request different reports.