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The Institutional Research and Policy Studies (IRPS) unit of Planning and Budget is the primary office for the collection and analysis of statistical information regarding students, faculty, and staff. This information is used to support regular, ongoing, internal and external reviews. Additionally, IRPS conducts policy outcomes analyses that directly support the offices of the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor, and planners at all other levels of the campus.

Subjects of primary interest to the wider campus community that are maintained by IRPS include reports on:

  • Campus Enrollments - third week enrollment reports and enrollment projections;
  • Faculty & Staff - faculty rosters, and profiles, research activities and staff profiles;
  • Instructional Activity - instructional load summaries, course audit reports, student credit hour reports, and class size reports;
  • Students - Common Data Set initiative (standardized national data collection used for college guidebooks), retention and graduation, student characteristics, student degree and major reports;
  • Student Surveys - findings from student surveys including the admitted, new, and enrolled, students as well as recent graduates.
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Planning and Budget Highlights

UC Santa Cruz College Portrait
Based on a UC-developed common web reporting template, a new site has been launched to provide potential students and their parents with key UCSC institutional data as well as accountability statistics about educational outcomes ... [More]

UC Institutional and Student Research Conference
Presentations from the January 30-31, 2008 inaugural conference held at UC Santa Cruz have been posted ... [More]

Retention & graduation website provides issues primer
A February 2006 campus forum (co-sponsored by CEP and the VPDUE) framed the issues that are the subject of this website which includes statistics about rates at UCSC and at comparable institutions as well as links to higher education research ... [More]

SCiiPi on-line instructional activity system successfully launched
The Santa Cruz Integrated Instructional Planning Information (SCiiPi) system is an automated method of gathering, editing and disseminating information about formal instructional activity at UC Santa Cruz. SCiiPi replaces the Course Schedule and Instructional Record system (CSIR)... [More]


Planning and Budget Headlines

January 14, 2011: Listing of UC fall 2011 application reports, published by the Office of the President for applications systemwide, is now available ... [More]

January 6, 2011: The UC application summary, published by the Office of the President, summarizes fall 2011 applications systemwide ... [More]