College Metrics Definition
| Enrollment: Includes students who are officially enrolled at Texas Tech University in credit-bearing classes. |
| Distance Education Course Enrollment and Course SCH Counts are taken from credit bearing sections with instructional method or delivery mode taught via internet or web based (ONLINE or WEB). These are fiscal year totals. |
| Retention and Graduation Rates: Based on a cohort that includes degree-seeking, first-time, full-time new freshman, who are officially enrolled at Texas Tech University. Retention is the percentage of the cohort that re-enroll in the following fall and are counted as of the census date. Graduation rates track the percentage of the cohort that graduates in the given amount of time. |
| Degrees Awarded: Counts of degrees officially awarded by year and term. Degrees are awarded for Baccalaureate, Master's, Doctoral, and First Professional degrees to students who have completed the required hours for the degree. Counts do not include certificates. |
| Certificates: Are non-degree credentials granted to students for successful completion of required curriculum for certification. |
| Semester Credit Hours: The total credit hours taught by a college are summed and reported at the college level for a given semester or fiscal year. |
| Weighted Semester Credit Hours: SCH are given a weight based on level of the course, level of the students, and formula funding rate. A table with the relative weights is available at this link http://www.irim.ttu.edu/FormulaFunding.php |
| Faculty Headcount: Faculty counts include all faculty with at least a partial instructional appointment and 9-month salary. |
| Faculty Headcount by Tenure Status: Faculty headcounts by tenure status as of November1. |
| Faculty Average Salary: The average 9-month salary of Faculty with at least a partial instructional appointment and 9-month salary is greater than zero. These counts may include or exclude Teaching Assistants and Graduate Part-Time Instructors. |
| Faculty FTE (Full-Time Equivalent): The total of all instructional appointments for faculty employed in the fall term. A full-time appointment counts as 1 and partial appointments are summed to yield equivalent full-time appointments. This excludes Teaching Assistant and Graduate Part-Time Instructor (TA/GPT-I). |
| Teaching Staff FTE: The Total of all instructional appointments for faculty, Teaching Assistants (TA), and Graduate Part-Time Instructor (GPT-I) employed in the fall term. A full-time appointment count as 1 and partial appointments are summed to yield equivalent full-time appointments. |
Research Awards and Expenditures |
| Research: For proposals and awards with multiple principal investigators/co-investigators, credit for the proposal and the associated award is split among the units. |
| # of Proposals: Number of proposals for sponsored projects reported by the center, institute or department through which the proposal was submitted. |
| Proposal Amounts: Dollar value of proposals for sponsored projects reported by the center, institute or department through which the proposal was submitted. |
| Award Amounts by Home Department: Dollar amount of awards for sponsored projects reported by home department of the principal investigators and co-investigators. |
| Award Amounts by Submitting Unit: Dollar amount of awards for sponsored projects reported by center, institute or department through which the proposal was submitted |
| # of Awards: Number of awards for sponsored projects reported by the center, institute or department through which the proposal was submitted. |
| Federal & Private Research Expenditures (FPRE): Metric used by THECB to allocate a portion of the Texas University Fund (TUF) distributions. It consists of federal research expenditures (FRE), private research expenditures (PRE), and gift research expenditures (GRE), less subawards to Texas public institutions of higher education. |
| Federal Research Expenditures (FRE): As reported on the National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development Survey (HERD), research expenditures (program code 200), excluding capital construction and noncash, sourced with federal sponsored projects, including those directly from U.S. government agencies and indirectly passed-through from other entities, as well as any related program income. Also includes federal stimulus funds restricted for strategic research priorities and a portion of federal work study expenditures allocable to research. Note federal research reported to THECB will be lower, as effective FY22 its definition excludes subawards to Texas public institutions of higher education. College and department level allocations are based on the home department of the sponsored project principal investigator and co-investigator(s). |
| Gift Research Expenditures (GRE): Research expenditures (program code 200), excluding capital construction and noncash, that are sourced with restricted gifts from individuals, for-profit and non-profit entities, including earnings on endowments and quasi-endowments funded from these gifts. College and department level allocations are based on the expenditure organization (orgn). |
| Private Research Expenditures (PRE): Research expenditures (program code 200), excluding capital construction and noncash, sourced with sponsored projects from for-profit and non-profit entities, as well as any related program income. Amounts reported prior to FY23 also include those from state agencies, counties, municipalities, and local governments outside of Texas (now reported as SFRE). Note private research reported to THECB will be lower, as effective FY22 its definition excludes subawards to Texas public institutions of higher education. College and department level allocations are based on the home department of the sponsored project principal investigator and co-investigator(s). |
| Restricted Research Expenditures (RRE): Restricted research expenditures are reported annually to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and are defined by the Standards and Accounting Methods (SAMs). RRE consists of gift research expenditures (GRE) and sponsored project research expenditures (SPRE), less facilities and administrative costs (F&A), capital construction, costs associated with entertainment or any direct individual benefit, sub awards to institutions eligible to receive funds from the Texas Comprehensive Research Fund (formerly the Research Development Fund) or Core Research Support Fund, and all remaining expenditures from GRE/SPRE funds not meeting THECB definition of restricted research. Note the RRE figure reported to THECB also includes manual accrual adjustments that are not allocated by college and are therefore only reflected in the TTU Summary Level RRE total. |
| Sponsored Project Research Expenditures (SPRE): Sponsored projects include grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other legally binding means of transfer under which an entity provides a return benefit to, or agrees to provide a defined deliverable or complete a specified set of activities for, an external sponsor in exchange for funds. SPRE consists of federal research expenditures (FRE), state funded research expenditures (SFRE), and private research expenditures (PRE). |
| State Funded Research Expenditures (SFRE): Research expenditures (program code 200), excluding capital construction and noncash, sourced with sponsored projects from state agencies, counties, municipalities, local governments, and competitively awarded state appropriations, as well as any related program income. Amounts reported prior to FY23 only include those from Texas entities (states other than Texas previously reported as PRE). Note state funded research reported to THECB will be lower, as effective FY22 its definition excludes subawards to Texas public institutions of higher education. College and department level allocations are based on the home department of the sponsored project principal investigator and co-investigator(s). |
| State and Institutional Research Expenditures (SIRE): Research expenditures (program code 200), excluding capital construction and noncash, sourced with state appropriations, designated funds, auxiliary funds, and earnings on quasi-endowments not funded with restricted gifts. SIRE is reported only at the university and college level because many of these resources benefit multiple centers and departments but are controlled at higher levels of the institution. College level allocations are based on the expenditure organization (orgn). |
| Total Research Expenditures (TRE): As reported on the National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development Survey (HERD), research expenditures (program code 200), excluding capital construction and noncash, from any source. TRE consists of federal research expenditures (FRE), state funded research expenditures (SFRE), private research expenditures (PRE), gift research expenditures (GRE), state and institutional research expenditures (SIRE), and unrecovered F&A (UFA). Note total research reported to THECB will be lower, as it does not include UFA; additionally, effective FY22 its definition excludes subawards to Texas public institutions of higher education. TRE is reported only at the university and college level due to the inclusion of SIRE, which often benefits multiple centers and departments but is controlled at higher levels of the institution. |
| Unrecovered F&A (UFA): As reported on the National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development Survey (HERD), the difference between the amount of F&A (Facilities & Administrative) costs charged to research sponsored projects and the amount that could have been charged under TTU's federally negotiated F&A rate. College level allocations are based on the home department of the sponsored project principal investigator and co-investigator(s). |
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Finance |
| E&G Funds: Funds comprised of tax (General Revenue) funds in the state treasury and funds generated locally (Other E & G) by the University from students and other sources. This also includes funds generated locally by the University and appropriated by the state (e.g., tuition, fees, interest earnings, etc.) to be used for administration, institutional expense, instruction and departmental research, physical plant operation, and other items related to instruction. |
| Line Items: State funds allocated to the University for Special Appropriation Items as requested during the legislative session. |
| Grad Tuition: State tuition charged to graduate students. |
| Designated Funds - Fee: Unrestricted funds that are internally allocated for specific purposes – student services fees, information technology fees, library fees, etc. |
| Auxiliary: Funds used to provide services for students, faculty, and staff which generally charge a fee directly related to the cost of the service provided (e.g., athletics, residence halls, hospitality services, traffic & parking, etc.). No state funds can be used to support auxiliary operations. |
| Gift: Donated funds that are restricted based on an agreement between the donor and the University. |
| HEAF: State appropriated funds established to acquire, construct or improve tangible assets. Created to assist state universities that are outside the University of Texas and Texas A&M Systems. |
| Sponsored Projects: Sponsored projects are externally-funded activities in which a formal written agreement (i.e., grant, contract, or cooperative agreement) is entered into by the institution and the sponsor to accomplish a specified statement of work. Sponsors may be federal agencies, other states or other State of Texas agencies, or any other entity from the public or private sector. |
| Instructional Costs - code 100: All expenditures in program code 100, Instruction, that were part of the Provost's Division. These include expenditures for activities that are part of the institution's instruction program; including credit and non-credit courses; academic, vocational, and technical instruction; remedial and tutorial instruction; and regular, special, and extension sessions. |
Efficiency Ratios |
| Student FTE Per Faculty FTE (IPEDS) Student FTE divided by Instructional Staff FTE. IPEDS definition of Student FTE: Full-Time students + 1/3 Part-Time students (excluding any stand-alone program, example: Law). IPEDS definition of Instructional Staff FTE: Full-Time Instructional Staff + 1/3 Part-Time Instructional Staff (excluding any stand-alone program, example: Law). Instructional Staff defines as having occupational category that is comprised of staff who are either 1) primarily instruction or 2) instruction combined with research and/or public service. |
| Student FTE Per Faculty FTE (THECB) Student FTE divided by Faculty FTE. Uses THECB definition of Student FTE: Fall Undergraduate SCH/15; Fall Masters and Law SCH/12; and Fall Doctoral SCH/9. |
| Student Headcount Per Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Headcount Total Fall Enrollment divided by Total Fall Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty headcount. |
| Student Headcount Per Faculty FTE Total Fall Enrollment divided by Total Fall Faculty FTE. |
| Student Headcount Per Teaching Staff FTE Total Fall Enrollment divided by Total Fall Teaching Staff FTE. |
| SCH Per Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Headcount Total Fiscal Year Semester Credit Hours (SCH) divided by Total Fall Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty headcount. |
| SCH Per Faculty FTE Total Fiscal Year Semester Credit Hours (SCH) divided by Fall Faculty FTE. |
| SCH Per Teaching Staff FTE Total Fiscal Year Semester Credit Hours (SCH) divided by Total Fall Teaching Staff FTE. |
| WSCH Per Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Headcount Total Fiscal Year Weighted Semester Credit Hours (WSCH) divided by Total Fall Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty headcount. |
| WSCH Headcount Per Faculty FTE Total Fiscal Year Weighted Semester Credit Hours (WSCH) divided by Total Fall Faculty FTE. |
| WSCH Per Teaching Staff FTE Total Fiscal Year Weighted Semester Credit Hours (WSCH) divided by Total Fall Teaching Staff FTE. |
| Instructional Salaries Per Semester Credit Hours Instructional Salaries (IS) divided by Fiscal Year Total Semester Credit Hours (SCH). |
| Instructional Salaries Per Weighted Semester Credit Hours Instructional Salaries (IS) divided by Fiscal Year Total Weighted Semester Credit Hours (WSCH). |
| Total Instructional Cost Per Semester Credit Hours Total Instructional Cost (TIC) divided by Fiscal Year Total Semester Credit Hours (SCH). |
| Total Instructional Cost Per Weighted Semester Credit Hours Total Instructional Cost (TIC) divided by Fiscal Year Total Weighted Semester Credit Hours (WSCH). |
Calculation for 1-, 3-, and 5-Year Changes: |
| Changes calculations are based on the current term/year and the prior 1, 3, and 5
term/year data: Using Enrollment as an example and the term is Fall 2014, the following are the calculations: |
| For 1-Year Change: (Current - Prior 1 Year)/Prior 1 Year) For Current (Fall 2014) Enrollment = 35,158, For Prior 1-Year (Fall 2013) Enrollment = 33,111 Calculation: ((35158-33111)/33111) = 6.18% or 6.2% |
| For 3-Year Change: (Current - Prior 3 Year)/Prior 3 Year) For Current (Fall 2014) Enrollment = 35,158, For Prior 3-Year (Fall 2011) Enrollment = 32,327 Calculation: ((35158-32327)/32327) = 8.76% or 8.8% |
| For 5-Year Change: (Current - Prior 5 Year)/Prior 5 Year) For Current (Fall 2014) Enrollment = 35,158, For Prior 5-Year (Fall 2009) Enrollment = 30,049 Calculation: ((35158-30049)/30049) = 17.0% |
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