Common Data Set

2003-2004

The COMMON DATA SET (CDS) initiative is a collaboration effort among higher education data providers and publishers such as the College Board, Peterson’s, U.S. News & World Report and Wintergreen/Orchard House. The combined goal of this collaboration is to improve the quality and accuracy of information involved in a student’s transition into higher education as well as to reduce the reporting burden of data providers.

The CDS is a set of standards and definitions of data items rather than a survey instrument or set of data represented in a database. Each of the higher education surveys conducted by participating publishers incorporates items from the CDS as well as unique items proprietary to each publisher. Consequently, the publishers’ surveys differ in that they utilize varying numbers of items from the CDS.

For more information about this report, please refer to the OISP Report Primer.

2003-2004 Edition

Entire Common Data Set Report 2003-2004 (PDF File)
Entire Common Data Set Report 2003-2004 (Excel 2007 File)
Individual Report Sections:
A.	General Information	University characteristics and contact information
B.	Enrollment And Persistence	Student enrollment statistics by demographic and academic characteristics, persistence, retention and graduation rates for graduating cohorts.
C.	Freshman Admission	Applied, admitted, and enrolled statistics for first-time first-year freshmen students. Admission requirements and Admissions selection process by academic and non-academic factors. SAT and ACT test policies; freshman academic profile by SAT and ACT test scores. Application deadlines and fees.
D.	Transfer Admission	Applied, admitted, and enrolled statistics for fall semester transfer students. Transfer credit policies for prior college work. Application deadlines and fees.
E.	Academic Offerings And Policies	Special study options, including cooperative education, double major, honors, ESL, et.al.
F.	Student Life	Student life statistics about Texas A&M including campus organizations and activities, as well as dorm statistics.
G.	Annual Expenses	College costs and annual expenses statistics about Texas A&M including tuition, fees, room and board for in-state and out-of-state students.
H.	Financial Aid	Financial aid and scholarship statistics about Texas A&M, including loans, work study, tuition waivers, FASFA, Pell Grant, other grants and awards.
I.	Instructional Faculty And Class Size	Faculty and class size statistics about Texas A&M including faculty demographics for full-time and part-time faculty members, class section size, and student to faculty ratio.
J.	Degrees Conferred	Degrees conferred by academic programs at Texas A&M University.
	Common Data Set Definitions	Explanation of definitions and terms used in the Common Data Set report.