Admission Practices - July 60-Second Survey 2015

Admissions
Research

The purpose of the July 2015 60 Second Survey was to gain a snapshot understanding of a handful of admission practices that were suggested as topics of interest by the membership.

The purpose of the July 2015 60 Second Survey was to gain a snapshot understanding of a handful of admission practices that were suggested as topics of interest by the membership. Data cleaning resulted in 808 usable responses representing a variety of institutional types, sizes, controls and locations, with the majority representing U.S. and Canadian institutions.More than three quarters of participants represent undergraduate practices (78%), 16% graduate and/or professional, and 5% selected “other.” Most who selected “other” represent both undergraduate and graduate practices for purposes of this survey.

Unless otherwise noted in a specific report, the AACRAO member institution size, type and control categories are based on the following definitions and sources:

The enrollment value used to delineate the institution's size category is defined as full-time enrollment plus 1/3 of part-time enrollment and is based on the enrollment reported by the institution to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).