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Performance Indicators

The higher education performance of states, campuses, colleges, departments, and other organizations may be assessed through student measures such as degrees, as well as measures related to faculty, staff, research, libraries, endowments, and more. The measures may use over-time comparisons, peer comparisons, absolute standards, or other means of comparison.

CU-Boulder campus performance measures or indicators

• October 2007, most recent report
• Previous reports
  April 2001   April 2002   April 2003   April 2004
  April 2005  August 2006

University of Colorado System

• Dashboard, Boulder segment only. 
  • November 2007   January 2008

State of Colorado

• Performance contracts - Senate Bill 189, passed by the Colorado legislature in spring 2004, calls for performance contracts between higher education institutions and the state.
• CU contract - covers Boulder, Denver-Health Sciences, and Colorado Springs
• Colorado Department of Higher Education contract overview site
• Periodic reports on performance from the CU system to Colorado Dept. of Higher Education. Contains information on all CU campuses
  - December 2007
  - June 2007
• CU-Boulder and CCHE Quality Indicator System (QIS) - for each year, from 1998 through 2004

National reports

• See our IPEDS site for information on data feedback reports for CU-Boulder, by year 
• For a summary of CU-Boulder rankings and ratings summary, see Just The Facts (download)
• U.S. News -- Undergraduate programs
  - Boulder over time and vs. peers, August 2008
• U.S. News -- Graduate programs
• The Center for Measuring University Performance - a research enterprise focused on the competitive national context for major research universities

Measures of the performance of U.S. states

• See the NCHEMS Information Center for comparative data for states and counties, and useful contextual information. Also on this site, refer to "Policy Questions" to find answers to specific questions regarding Colorado's (and other states) system of higher education.

One-time reports

• State and national standardized tests - performance of students graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder, brief summary, May 2008
• 2006 Acceptance rate of CU-Boulder students to medical school, versus national average (along with chart showing acceptance ratios by GPA and MCAT scores)