| # | Indicator Name | Indicator Category | Measure Description |
Benchmark Set by | Reporting Year Difference | Indicator Value Data Source | Peer Information Data Source | | 1 | Average SAT | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | Relative quality of new 1st-time full-time freshmen | Peers |
2 | MHEC Form S-11, reported by USM Institutions IR | IPEDS
|
| 2 | 6-year graduation rate | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | Relative quality of new 1st-time full-time freshmen & their success in college | Peers |
2 | IPEDS
| IPEDS
|
| 3 | Second-year retention rate | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | Relative quality of new freshmen & their success in their freshman year | Peers |
2 | IPEDS
| IPEDS
|
| 4 | African-Americans, Hispanics, & Native Americans as % of total undergraduates | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | Diversity & Inclusion | Peers |
2 | IPEDS
| IPEDS
|
| 5 | % of applicants admitted (new freshmen & transfer students) | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | % of actual demand that is being met by USM institutions | |
1 | USM: Application Information System (MHEC) | |
| 6 | Maryland community college transfers | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | Number of Maryland community college transfers served by USM institutions | |
1 | USM: Enrollment Information System (MHEC) | |
| 7 | Resident undergraduate tuition & fees | Affordability | Affordability, rates of increase in tuition & fees for full-time resident undergraduates. | N/A |
1 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Chronicle of Higher Education |
| 8 | Percent of undergraduates receiving financial aid | Affordability | Affordability | Institution |
1 | USM: Financial Aid Information System (MHEC) | |
| 9 | Average undergraduate debt burden upon graduation | Affordability | | Peers |
2 | U.S. News College Compass Web Access | U.S. News College Compass Web Access |
| 10 | Average undergraduate alumni giving rate | Alumni | Alumni engagement with institution after graduation | |
2 | CAE, Voluntary Support of Education | CAE, Voluntary Support of Education |
| 21 | Average faculty salary | Faculty | Relative financial attractiveness of institution for attracting outstanding faculty | Peers |
1 | AAUP, Annual Survey of Faculty Salaries | |
| 22 | Weighted average faculty salary percentile | Faculty | Relative financial strength in attracting outstanding faculty | Board |
1 | | |
| 23 | Awards per 100 full-time faculty (over 5-year period) | Faculty | Third-party validation of the quality, reputation & promise of faculty members & their research | |
1 | USM, Admin. & Finance for awards; AAUP for faculty members | |
| 24 | Student to faculty ratio | Faculty | Number of faculty available to students. | Peers |
2 | IPEDS | IPEDS |
| 31 | Total R&D expenditures per full-time faculty | Economic Development | Contribution of R&D expenditures as a tool of economic development | Peers |
2 | NSF for R&D expenditures; AAUP for number of faculty | |
| 32 | U.S. Patents issued | Economic Development | University"s contribution to economic development, since patent protection is important in providing the incentive for companies to commercialize research discoveries | |
1 | | |
| 33 | Adjusted gross license income received | Economic Development | Success of technology transfer efforts | |
1 | | |
| 34 | Licenses & options executed | Economic Development | Commercial interest in a university"s research. Transfer of research from university to commercial interests is accomplished through the licensing of intellectual property by the institution to industry. | |
1 | | |
| 35 | Upper Division STEM enrollment | Workforce Development | A leading indicator of future STEM production | |
1 | USM: Enrollment Information System (MHEC) | |
| 38 | Number of start-up companies | Economic Development | Success in economic development activities | |
1 | Institutional Reporting | |
| 41 | Expenditures for instruction as percent of total operating expenditures | Stewardship | Relative amount spent on instruction, which is the university's primary mission | Peers |
2 | IPEDS | IPEDS |
| 42 | Expenditures for administration as percent of total operating expenditures | Stewardship | Relative amount spent on administration, indicating how prudently the resources are used. | Peers |
2 | IPEDS | IPEDS |
| 43 | Fund balance increase goal achievement | Stewardship | Indicates effectiveness of institutional financial management. Sound financial management is a key to continued high bond ratings | Board |
1 | USM Comptroller's office with data from USM's audited financial statements
| |
| 44 | Percent of fundraising goal achieved | Stewardship | Success of fundraising efforts | Institution |
1 | USM Foundation | |
| 51 | Classroom utilization rate | Effectiveness & Efficiency | Classroom use | State |
1 | USM, Admin. & Finance, Capital Programs | |
| 52 | Facilities renewal as percent of replacement value | Effectiveness & Efficiency | Expenditures on facilities renewal, enabling evaluation of success in meeting BOR"s goal of 2% | Board |
1 | USM, Admin. & Finance, Capital Programs | |
| 53 | Percentage of undergraduate credits generated by non-traditional methods | Effectiveness & Efficiency | Success in achieving BO"s policy | Board |
1 | USM: Course Information System and Student Registration System (MHEC) | |
| 54 | Time to Degree | Effectiveness & Efficiency | Success in shortening the overall time to degree | |
1 | USM: Enrollment Information System and Degree Information System (MHEC) | |
| 55 | Faculty Instructional Workload - Credit Hours per Core Faculty | Effectiveness & Efficiency | Success in achieving BOR policy of increasing teaching workload | Board |
1 | USM: Annual Report on the Instructional Workload of the USM Faculty | |
| # | Indicator_Name | Indicator Category | Measure Description |
Benchmark Set by | Reporting Year Difference | Indicator Value Data Source | Peer Information Data Source | | S11 | Percent of Maryland market share (public/private/community colleges) | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | Success of USM in maintaining its market share of students attending college in Maryland | N/A |
1 | MHEC, Trend Book; USM, Admin. & Finance,
Opening Fall Enrollment data
| |
| S12 | Institutional financial aid for undergraduates as percent of undergraduate tuition revenue | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | Whether increases in institutional financial aid to undergraduates are keeping up with increases in undergraduate tuition & fees | N/A |
1 | USM: Financial Aid Information System (MHEC) and USM Budget Office | |
| S13 | Institutional financial aid for undergraduate students (Millions) | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | Degree of commitment to financial aid | N/A |
1 | USM: Financial Aid Information System (MHEC) | |
| S2 | 6-year graduation rate | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | Relative quality of new 1st-time full-time freshmen & their success in college | Peers |
2 | IPEDS
| IPEDS
|
| S21-1 | Average faculty salary (Research universities) | Faculty | Ability to attract outstanding faculty | Peers |
1 | AAUP, Annual Survey of Faculty Salaries
| AAUP, Annual Survey of Faculty Salaries
|
| S21-2 | Average faculty salary (Master's universities) | Faculty | Ability to attract outstanding faculty | Peers |
1 | AAUP, Annual Survey of Faculty Salaries
| AAUP, Annual Survey of Faculty Salaries
|
| S22 | Weighted average faculty salary percentile | Faculty | Relative strength in attracting outstanding faculty | Board |
1 | AAUP, Annual Survey of Faculty Salaries
| AAUP, Annual Survey of Faculty Salaries
|
| S3 | Second-year retention rate | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | Relative quality of new freshmen & their success in their freshman year | Peers |
2 | IPEDS
| IPEDS
|
| S32 | U.S. Patents issued | Economic Development | University's contribution to economic development, since patent protection is important in providing the incentive for companies to commercialize research discoveries | N/A |
1 | AUTM, Licensing Survey
| |
| S34 | Licenses & options executed | Economic Development | Commercial interest in a university's research. Transfer of research from university to commercial interests is accomplished through the licensing of intellectual property by the institution to industry. | N/A |
1 | AUTM, Licensing Survey
| |
| S35 | Upper division STEM enrollment | Workforce Development | | N/A |
1 | USM: Enrollment Information System (MHEC) | |
| S36 | Number of teaching graduates | Workforce Development | Number of graduates in an occupation experiencing critical workforce shortages | N/A |
1 | USM: Degree Information System (MHEC) | |
| S37 | Number of nursing graduates | Workforce Development | Number of graduates in an occupation experiencing critical workforce shortages | N/A |
1 | USM: Degree Information System (MHEC) | |
| S38 | Number of start-up companies | Economic Development | Success in economic development activities | N/A |
1 | Institutional reporting | |
| S4 | Minorities as percent of total undergraduate | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | Access | Peers |
2 | IPEDS
| IPEDS
|
| S41 | State appropriations per FTE student | Stewardship | Level of state general funds support for the university | Peers |
2 | IPEDS
| IPEDS
|
| S42 | System Office administrative expenditures as percent of the System's total operating expenditures | Stewardship | Relative amount spent on administration at the System Office, an indication of how prudently the resources are used | Peers |
2 | IPEDS
| IPEDS
|
| S43 | Unrestricted net assets to debt ratio | Stewardship | Financial health of an institution at fiscal year's end and indication of how well System is managing its finances | N/A |
1 | USM: Comptroller's Office | |
| S44 | System fund balance increase: goal achievement | Stewardship | Indicates effectiveness of systemwide financial management. Sound financial management is a key to continued high bond ratings | Board |
1 | USM Comptroller's office with data from USM's audited financial statements | |
| S45 | Credit Rating (Moody's) | Stewardship | Third party validation of the financial health of the System | Board |
1 | USM, Administration & Finance | |
| S46 | Percent of annual fundraising dedicated to endowment | Stewardship | Success of fundraising efforts | N/A |
1 | CAE, Voluntary Support of Education | |
| S47 | Total funds raised (annual) | Stewardship | Success of fundraising efforts | N/A |
1 | USM Foundation | |
| S48 | Operating expenditures per FTE student | Funding | A proxy for quality of a university, assuming that quality is related in part to the dollars spent per student | Peers |
2 | IPEDS
| IPEDS
|
| S49 | Funding guideline percent achieved | Funding | % of the peer target which is attained by each USM institution. A proxy for quality. | |
1 | USM: Admin. & Finance, Budget Office | |
| S5 | Percent of total projected demand met | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | How well projected undergraduate demand is being met by USM institutions | N/A |
| | |
| S51 | Classroom utilization | Effectiveness & Efficiency | Classroom use | State |
1 | | |
| S52 | Facilities renewal as percent of replacement value | Effectiveness & Efficiency | Expenditures on facilities renewal, enabling evaluation of success in meeting BOR's goal of 2% | Board |
1 | | |
| S53 | Percentage of undergraduate credits generated by non-traditional methods | Effectiveness & Efficiency | Success in achieving BOR's policy | Board |
1 | | |
| S54 | Time to Degree | Effectiveness & Efficiency | Success in shortening the overall time to degree | N/A |
1 | | |
| S6 | Maryland community college transfers | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | Success of MD community college transfers in gaining access to USM institutions | N/A |
1 | USM: Enrollment Information System (MHEC) | |
| S7 | Average weighted undergraduate tuition & fees | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | Rates of increase in tuition & fees for full-time resident undergraduates as indicator of affordability | N/A |
1 | Chronicle of Higher Education | |
| # | Indicator_Name | Indicator Category | Measure Description |
Benchmark Set by | Reporting Year Difference | Indicator Value Data Source | Peer Information Data Source | | 1-UMB | Passing rate on Bar (Law) exam | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | | Peers |
1 | ABA 509 online http://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/Disclosure509.aspx | |
| 10-UMB | Total headcount enrollment | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | | Peers |
1 | Reported by University of Maryland, Baltimore | |
| 11-UMB | African-Americans, Hispanics, & Native Americans as percentage of total headcount enrollment | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | | Peers |
1 | Reported by University of Maryland, Baltimore | |
| 12-UMB | Graduate and first professional as percentage of total headcount enrollment | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | | Peers |
1 | Reported by UMGC | |
| 13-UMB | Grant & contract awards (millions) | Economic Development | | |
1 | MFR (USM Extramural Funding Report, based on data provided by ORD (includes UMBF and VA and other sources)) | |
| 14-UMB | Total R&D expenditures in medicine per F-T medical faculty | Economic Development | | Institution |
2 | NSF, R&D Expenditures; UMB, IR office, for faculty numbers | |
| 16-UMB | Number of nursing graduates (BSN, MS, PhD) | Workforce Development | | |
1 | USM: Degree Information System (MHEC) | |
| 17-UMB | Number of pharmacy graduates (PharmD) | Workforce Development | | |
1 | USM: Degree Information System (MHEC) | |
| 18-UMB | Number of dentistry grads (DDS) | Workforce Development | | |
1 | USM: Degree Information System (MHEC) | |
| 2-UMB | Passing rate on medical licensure exam | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | | National Peers |
1 | Reported by University of Maryland, Baltimore | |
| 3-UMB | Passing rate on nursing licensure exam | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | | National Peers |
1 | Reported by University of Maryland, Baltimore | |
| 4-UMB | Passing rate on dentistry licensure exam | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | | National Peers |
1 | Reported by University of Maryland, Baltimore | |
| 5-UMB | National ranking NIH awards to public medical schools | Faculty | | Institution |
1 | Reported by University of Maryland, Baltimore | |
| 6-UMB | National ranking: NIH awards to public and private dental schools | Faculty | | Institution |
1 | Reported by University of Maryland, Baltimore | |
| 7-UMB | Number of specialty law programs ranked in top 10 nationally | Faculty | | |
1 | Reported by University of Maryland, Baltimore | |
| # | Indicator_Name | Indicator Category | Measure Description |
Benchmark Set by | Reporting Year Difference | Indicator Value Data Source | Peer Information Data Source | | 1-UMGC | Total undergraduate headcount enrollment | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | | Institution |
1 | MFR (EIS - UMUC's Office of Accreditation, Compliance, and Reporting) | |
| 10-UMGC | No. of technology & management post-baccalaureates awarded | Workforce Development | | Institution |
1 | Reported by UMGC | |
| 11-UMGC | Operating budget savings as % of state- supported budget | Effectiveness & Efficiency | | Institution |
1 | Reported by UMGC | |
| 2-UMGC | African-Americans as % of total undergraduates | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | | |
1 | USM: Enrollment Information System (MHEC) | |
| 3-UMGC | % of students who are economically disadvantaged | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | | |
1 | USM: Financial Aid Information System (MHEC) | |
| 4-UMGC | % of students who are 25 years of age or older | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | | |
1 | Reported by UMGC | |
| 6-UMGC | Number of stateside online courses | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | | |
1 | Reported by UMGC | |
| 7-UMGC | Number of worldwide online enrollments (students x classes enrolled in) | Student: Access, Affordability, and Attainment | | |
1 | MFR (Freeze Data - UMUC's Office of Accreditation, Compliance, and Reporting) | |
| 8-UMGC | Total number of off campus or distance education enrollments | Economic Development | | |
1 | Reported by UMGC | |
| # | Indicator_Name | Indicator Category | Measure Description |
Benchmark Set by | Reporting Year Difference | Indicator Value Data Source | Peer Information Data Source | | 1-UMCES | Average GRE score of incoming students directed by UMCES Faculty | National Eminence/Quality | | |
1 | MFR (Office of the Vice President for Education) | |
| 2-UMCES | Number of peer reviewed publications by UMCES faculty | National Eminence/Quality | | |
1 | MFR ( ISI "Web of Knowledge") | |
| 3-UMCES | Number of citations per peer reviewed publication | National Eminence/Quality | | |
1 | MFR ( ISI "Web of Knowledge") | |
| 5-UMCES | Number of UMCES-sponsored Chesapeake Bay restoration projects | Workforce & Economic Development | | |
1 | UMCES Office of Research Administration (ORAA) | |
| 6-UMCES | Number of K-12 teachers trained in UMCES environmental projects | Workforce & Economic Development | | |
1 | MFR (Each UMCES unit has an Environmental Education lead(s) who represent their Unit. Data are maintained at Units.) | |
| 7-UMCES | Number of K-12 students involved in UMCES environmental education projects | Workforce & Economic Development | | |
1 | MFR (Each UMCES unit has an Environmental Education lead(s) who represent their Unit. Data are maintained at Units.) | |
| 8-UMCES | Total R&D expenditures (000s) | Workforce & Economic Development | | |
2 | National Science Foundation | |
| 9-UMCES | Total R&D expenditures per Core faculty | National Eminence/Quality | Affordability | |
2 | Reported by UMCES | |
