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Managing in post-secondary education has become increasingly complex. The most successful leaders use data benchmarks to guide decisions, evaluate performance, and improve outcomes. Campus Stats brings together the operational benchmarks that go beyond what IPEDS alone can show.
Find the missing statistic.
Effective managers cannot rely solely on intuition or tradition. Campus Stats collects the operational data that IPEDS doesn't cover — staffing ratios, departmental budgets, admissions costs — and turns it into benchmarks you can actually use. Knowing that your retention rate is 78% means little on its own. But if similar institutions average 85%, the data clearly signals room for improvement.
Complete a brief monthly survey about your institution's operations. Each month focuses on a different department.
AI-powered analysis combines responses across participating institutions, sorted by type, size, and mission.
Receive benchmarks that show how your metrics compare to peers. Identify gaps. Make better decisions.
Managers in post-secondary education oversee diverse functions — academic programs, student services, admissions, advising, finance, and operations. Benchmarking turns raw data into meaningful insights and provides several key benefits.
Benchmarks remove guesswork. Instead of subjective assessments, managers rely on measurable indicators — student retention, graduation rates, course completion, satisfaction, and faculty workload distribution.
When managers understand how their programs compare to peers, they can make better strategic decisions — investigating recruitment strategies, marketing approaches, or program relevance.
Institutions operate with limited budgets. Benchmark data helps determine where investments produce the greatest impact — whether hiring advisors, expanding tutoring, or redesigning courses with high failure rates.
Students, faculty, boards, and governments expect institutions to demonstrate results. Benchmarking provides clear evidence of progress and communicates performance in an understandable way.
While each department has unique indicators, Campus Stats tracks the benchmarks most widely used across post-secondary education.
Retention, progression, and graduation rates. Understand whether students are successfully navigating programs and where they're falling off.
Course pass rates, average grades, and time-to-completion highlight curriculum or instructional challenges that need attention.
Student-to-advisor ratios, class fill rates, and administrative processing times ensure services are delivered efficiently and at scale.
Surveys measuring the student experience provide qualitative insights that complement quantitative data and reveal what numbers alone can't show.
Benchmarking is not about chasing numbers — it is about ensuring that institutions deliver the best possible outcomes for the students they serve.
Institutions with a .edu email address participate at no cost. Contribute your operational data and receive peer benchmarks that IPEDS alone can't provide.
Staffing levels, departmental ratios, and workload metrics across peer institutions.
Per-student costs, departmental budgets, and revenue breakdowns by institution type.
How your metrics compare to institutions of similar size, type, and mission.
Regulatory benchmarks and reporting trends across the sector.
Contribute your data and receive benchmarks for your institution type. Estimated completion: ~8 minutes.
Every survey includes 3 recurring Industry Pulse questions for trendline tracking. Estimated completion: 8 minutes.
Banks, investors, and EdTech companies subscribe for access to the data that drives decision-making in higher education.
Lifetime rate lock for early adopters
or $2,950/yr
Full access to all Campus Stats data
or $4,950/yr
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