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Recruitment, Admissions, Trends, and Tensions

Recruitment, Admissions, Trends, and Tensions. Graduate School EM Task force Presentation. Admissions Staffing. Director of Admissions, DSO, & OnBase Goddess International Admissions/Record Officer & DSO Domestic Admissions/Record Officer & recruitment

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Recruitment, Admissions, Trends, and Tensions

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  1. Recruitment, Admissions, Trends, and Tensions Graduate School EM Task force Presentation

  2. Admissions Staffing • Director of Admissions, DSO, & OnBase Goddess • International Admissions/Record Officer & DSO • Domestic Admissions/Record Officer & recruitment • Domestic Admissions/Records Representative • Two “clerk typists”

  3. Application Process • Dynamic application • The Amazon Model • Immediate message • Within 2 working days, electronic acknowledgment and directions re: • using MYNIU to track progress and • submitting Statement of Purpose • Email sent to referees with instructions on uploading letter of recommendation

  4. Admissions Materials • Electronic documents • Application (circa 9,000/year: peak November-March) • Letters of recommendation • Statement of Purpose • GRE/GMAT • Paper documents • Transcripts • Other test scores • Program-specific materials • Portfolio, writing sample, interview

  5. Admissions Processing • Initial review of application materials • Correct errors • Check authenticity and accreditation • Maintenance of PS checklists • Minimum standards for GPA and TOEFL/IELTS test scores • Substantive review by program faculty • Programs make admission recommendations • Grad School accepts or rejects recommendations and formally admits or denies

  6. Recruitment Office • 100 domestic events/year (i.e. university visits, graduate fairs, corporations) • Additional visits to Europe and Africa • Partner with ISFO • Partner with faculty

  7. Recruitment Process • Distribute contact info from fairs/ visits • GS follows-up with prospects • GS follows-up with applicants • GS follows-up with programs • GS communicates with admitted students

  8. Racial/Ethnic Enrollment: Fall 95 – Fall 08

  9. Total and White Enrollment: Fall 95 – Fall 08

  10. What Prospects Tell Us • Programs are unresponsive to inquiries • Location of programs discourages applications/ attendance • Cohort structure • Program mix

  11. Number of Graduate Programs by Type

  12. Why Do Admitted Students Not Attend? • Life interferes • Visa issues • Costs • Safety school • No assistantship offer/uncompetitive assistantship offer

  13. A word about assistantships • Fall 2009: 1,310 assistants • 22% of all graduate students; 27% of degree-seekers • Stipend range: $195 - $23,260 (with tuition waiver benefit: $2,661 - $30,478) • Average (actual): $8,312; Median $8,440. • Annualized (9 months) average : $8,757; Median $9,000 • 503 assistants receive a stipend < the tuition waiver benefit

  14. Median Assistantship Stipends

  15. Difference Between NIU Stipends and Tuition/Fee Charges Compared to Other Institutions

  16. R & D Expenditures: FY 2007

  17. Another Word about Graduate Students and Money • Graduate students don’t pay • $10 million in waivers to assistants/year • $17 million in waivers to all GRADs • $10 million in salaries/year • Graduate students do pay • Estimate of $20 million per Fall and Spring in tuition and fees paid by graduate students • Services rendered

  18. National Enrollment Trends • Fall 2008 • circa 2.3 million in graduate school nationwide • 85% of first-time graduate students in a master’s or certificate program • education, business, and health sciences accounted for 50% of first-time enrollment • 1998-2008: greatest growth in the broad fields of physical sciences, engineering, and health sciences • 2003-2008: greatest growth – ACCY, health and medicine, psychology, C&I, industrial engineering, higher education, special education, library science, philosophy

  19. Undergraduate Enrollment:Fall 75 – Fall 08

  20. Graduate Enrollment:Fall 75 – Fall 09

  21. Graduate Enrollment

  22. Enrollment Trends at NIU 06-09 • CBUS: 818/777 down 41 or -5% • CEDU: 2,077/1,747 down 330 or -16% • CEET: 210/273 up 63 or 30% • CHHS: 423/435 up 12 or 3% • CLAS: 1,280/1,243 down 43 or -3% • CVPA: 241/218 down 23 or -9.3% • SAL: 1,202/1,200 down 2 • TOTAL: 6,251/5,893 down 358 or -6%

  23. Graduate Enrollments by College: Fall 2009

  24. Take-Aways • Masters-level enrollment, to a lesser extent SALs, drive enrollment • A relatively small number of programs, but comparatively large enrollment (i.e. juxtaposed to UG enrollment and to comparison group) • Predominately part-time enrollment • Highly competitive local market, especially in education and business • Highly competitive global market, especially for doctoral students and in the STEM disciplines

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