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About Us
Institutional Research provides in-depth statistical data to state and federal agencies, and to internal and external constituents. We act as an institutional information resource for all units of the university, specializing in conducting research on national norms and statistics relevant to the college.
Institutional Research is a unit in the Data & Analytics branch of the Office of Strategic Initiatives & Analytics.
Data & Reporting
Institutional Research archives official data on a variety of topics, ranging from graduation rates to financial trends and grade distributions. Displayed below are the most commonly requested reports. Feel free to contact us should you have any questions regarding what other reporting may be available.
Student Profiles are published once a term reflecting: headcounts, demographic data, and year over year trends, at time of Census.
Fall Student Profile (Primary. Used for benchmarking, reporting to system, state and federal levels, unit funding.)
Spring Student Profile (Spring used primarily internally for benchmarking. Use fall census for official counts.)
The Official Retention and Graduation reports track the past ten years of First-time Freshman and Transfer Student Cohorts. The reports are updated following the IPEDS release schedule guidelines. (9 months after each data collection period closes.)
MSU Denver’s latest, six-year graduation rate for the 2017 cohort of first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students is 30%. MSU Denver has a six-year graduation rate of 49.7% for the 2017 cohort of full-time, transfer, degree-seeking students.
Freshman & Transfer Student Retention Fall 2013 to Fall 2022 Cohort
Graduation Rates 2012-2018 and 2012-2021
The Common Data Set (CDS) initiative is a collaborative effort among data providers in the higher education community and publishers as represented by the College Board, Peterson’s, and others. The combined goal of this collaboration is to improve the quality and accuracy of information provided to all involved in a student’s transition into higher education, as well as to reduce the reporting burden on data providers.
Common Data Set 2021-2022
Common Data Set 2020-2021
Common Data Set 2019-2020
Common Data Set 2018-2019
Archived reports available upon request.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System is a system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by the National Center for Education Statistics, a part of the Institute for Education Sciences within the United States Department of Education. The reports are updated given the IPEDS release schedule guidelines. (9 months after each data collection period closes.)
MSU Denver IPEDS Reporting 2022-2023
- Institutional Characteristics
- Completions
- 12-Month Enrollment
- Student Financial Aid
- Graduation Rates
- Graduation Rates 200%
- Outcome Measures
- Admissions
- Fall Enrollment
- Finance
- Human Resources
For an archive of previous year’s data click here.
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