VSA Analytics
A robust, interactive, custom tool designed to support college and university leaders’ use of data in strategic planning and decision making.
Designed by institutions for institutions, VSA Analytics allows users to create and save multiple peer groups and build graphical benchmarking reports in minutes. The custom platform offers more than 25 benchmarking reports based on a national dataset containing about 400 variables from roughly 4,400 institutions.
For Potential Subscribers
The VSA Analytics has data on admissions, enrollment, financial aid, institutional price, student debt, graduation rates, completion rates, degrees by discipline, and more. Sources include:
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
- National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research & Development survey expenditures
- Student Achievement Measure (SAM)
- U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard
As a subscriber you can:
- View more than two dozen reports on key metrics
- Create custom peer groups to view side-by-side comparisons
- Download the VSA Analytics National Dataset
- Print reports and export data
- Add users from your institution without any additional cost
- Use VSA Analytics as a benchmarking tool for institutional and strategic planning
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Updates completed in 2024
The following reports have been updated with the most recent 2022-23 IPEDS data.
- One Year Retention
- Fall Headcount by Institution
- Fall Headcount by Year
- Fall Undergraduate Headcount by Demographics and Institution
- Fall Undergraduate Headcount by Demographics and Year
- Undergraduates by First-time Status (or Enrollment Type) and Institution
- Undergraduates by First-time Status (or Enrollment Type) and Year
- Student Faculty Ratio
- Full-time Faculty Demographics by Institution
- Full-time Faculty Demographics by Year
- Instructional Expenditures per FTE by Year
- State Appropriations per FTE by Year
