Stanford University

Common Data Set: 2001-2002

The Common Data Set Initiative is a collaborative effort between publishers and the educational community 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 burden on colleges of compiling and reporting information. Questions and definitions used by the U.S. Department of Education in its college surveys are a guide in the development of CDS items. Common Data Set items undergo broad review by secondary schools and two-and four-year colleges.

Please note: These numbers were still being updated and reviewed as of January 17, 2002.

General information

Enrollment and persistence

First-time, first-year freshman admission

Transfer admission

Academic offerings and policies

Student life

Annual expenses

Financial aid

Instructional faculty and class size

Degrees conferred

Up-to-date admission information also is available through the Undergraduate Admission website.

A. GENERAL INFORMATION
A1. Address Information
Name of University: Stanford University
City/State/Zip: Stanford, CA 94305
Main Phone Number: 650-723-2300
WWW Home Page Address: http://www.stanford.edu
Admissions Phone Number: 650-723-2091
Admissions Mailing Address: Undergraduate Admission, Old Student Union
Admissions Fax Number: 650-723-6050
Admissions E-mail Address: undergrad.admissions@forsythe.stanford.edu

A2. Source of institutional control: Private (nonprofit)

A3. Classify your undergraduate institution: Coeducational college

A4. Academic year calendar: Quarter

A5. Degrees offered by your institution: Bachelor's. Master's, Doctoral, First Professional

B. ENROLLMENT AND PERSISTENCE
B1. Institutional Enrollment, October 2001

* Does not include 193 undergraduates studying overseas. Stanford considers its enrollment to be 6,636.

Total all undergraduates: _7,279

Total all graduate and professional students: 11,312_

GRAND TOTAL ALL STUDENTS: 18,591

B2. Enrollment by Racial/Ethnic Category. Provide numbers of undergraduate students for each of the following categories as of the institution's official fall reporting date or as of October 15, 2001.

B3. Number of degrees awarded by your institution from July 1, 2000, to June 30, 2001.

Bachelor's degrees: 1,676

Master's degrees: 2,086

Post-master's certificates: _____

Doctoral degrees: 543

First professional degrees: 307

Graduation Rates
For Bachelor's or Equivalent Programs

B4. Initial 1995 cohort of first-time, full-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students; total all students: 1,595

B5. Of the initial 1995 cohort, how many did not persist and did not graduate for the following reasons: deceased, permanently disabled, armed forces, foreign aid service of the federal government, or official church missions; total allowable exclusions: _0_

B6. Final 1995 cohort, after adjusting for allowable exclusions: 1,595

B7. Of the initial 1995 cohort, how many completed the program in four years or less (by August 31, 1999): 1,227

B8. Of the initial 1995 cohort, how many completed the program in more than four years but in five years or less (after August 31, 1999 and by August 31, 2000): 224

B9. Of the initial 1995 cohort, how many completed the program in more than five years but in six years or less (after August 31, 2000 and by August 31, 2001): 38

B10. Total graduating within six years (sum of questions B7, B8, and B9): 1,489

B11. Six-year graduation rate for 1995 cohort (question B10 divided by question B6): 93.35%

Retention Rates

B22. For the cohort of all full-time bachelor's (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduate students who entered your institution as freshmen in fall 2000 (or the preceding summer term), what percentage was enrolled at your institution as of the date your institution calculates its official enrollment in fall 2001? 98%

C. FIRST-TIME, FIRST-YEAR (FRESHMAN) ADMISSION
Applications
C1. First-time, first-year (freshman) students: Provide the number of degree-seeking, first-time, first-year students who applied, were admitted, and enrolled (full- or part-time) in fall 2001. Include early decision, early action, and students who began studies during summer in this cohort. Applicants should include only those students who fulfilled the requirements for consideration for admission (i.e., who completed actionable applications) and who have been notified of one of the following actions: admission, nonadmission, placement on waiting list, or application withdrawn (by applicant or institution). Admitted applicants should include wait-listed students who were subsequently offered admission.

Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who applied: 9,824

Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who applied: 9,228

Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who were admitted: 1,227

Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who were admitted: 1,179

Total full-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) men who enrolled: 811

Total part-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) men who enrolled: 0

Total full-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) women who enrolled: 807

Total part-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) women who enrolled: 0

C2. Freshman wait-listed students (students who met admission requirements but whose final admission was contingent on space availability)
Do you have a policy of placing students on a waiting list? Yes
If yes, please answer the questions below for fall 2001 admissions:
Number of qualified applicants placed on waiting list: 882
Number accepting a place on the waiting list: 592
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 15

Admission Requirements
C3. High school completion requirement: High school diploma is required and GED is accepted

C4. Does your institution require or recommend a general college-preparatory program for degree-seeking students? Recommend

C5. Distribution of high school units required and/or recommended. Specify the distribution of academic high school course units required and/or recommended of all or most degree-seeking students using Carnegie units (one unit equals one year of study or its equivalent). If you use a different system for calculating units, please convert.

Basis for Selection
C6. Do you have an open admission policy, under which virtually all secondary school graduates or students with GED equivalency diplomas are admitted without regard to academic record, test scores, or other qualifications? No

C7. Relative importance of each of the following academic and nonacademic factors in your first-time, first-year, degree-seeking (freshman) admission decisions.

C8. Entrance exams
A. Does your institution make use of SAT I, SAT II, or ACT scores in admission decisions for first-time, first-year, degree-seeking applicants? Yes
If yes, place check marks in the appropriate boxes below to reflect your institution's policies for use in admission.

In addition, does your institution use applicants' test scores for placement or counseling?
Placement: Yes
Counseling: No

C. Latest date by which SAT I or ACT scores must be received for fall-term admission: January 1

Latest date by which SAT II scores must be received for fall-term admission: January 1

Freshman Profile
Provide percentages for all enrolled, degree-seeking, full-time and part-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) students enrolled in fall 2001, including students who began studies during summer, international students/nonresident aliens, and students admitted under special arrangements.

C9. Percent and number of first-time, first-year (freshman) students enrolled in fall 2001 who submitted national standardized (SAT/ACT) test scores. Include information for ALL enrolled, degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted test scores. Do not include partial test scores (e.g., mathematics scores but not verbal for a category of students) or combine other standardized test results (such as TOEFL) in this item. SAT scores should be recentered scores. The 25th percentile is the score that 25 percent scored at or below; the 75th percentile score is the one that 25 percent scored at or above.

Percent submitting SAT scores: 96%

Number submitting SAT scores: 1,548

Percent submitting ACT scores: 17%

Number submitting ACT scores: 278

First-timee freshman test scores

Percent of first-time, first-year (freshman) students with scores in each range:

C10. Percent of all degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who had high school class rank within each of the following ranges (report information for those students from whom you collected high school rank information).

Percent in top tenth of high school graduating class: 89%
Percent in top quarter of high school graduating class: 96%
Percent in top half of high school graduating class: 99%
Percent in bottom half of high school graduating class: 1%
Percent in bottom quarter of high school graduating class: 0
Percent of total first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted high school class rank: 79%

C11. Percentage of all enrolled, degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who had high school grade-point averages within each of the following ranges (using 4.0 scale). Report information only for those students from whom you collected high school GPA.

Percent who had GPA of 3.0 and higher: 100%

C12. Average high school GPA of all degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted GPA: 3.86
Percent of total first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted high school GPA: 91%

Admission Policies
C13. Application fee
Does your institution have an application fee? Yes
Amount of application fee: $65 domestic/$70 international
Can it be waived for applicants with financial need? Yes

C14. Application closing date
Does your institution have an application closing date? Yes
Application closing date (fall): December 15

C15. Are first-time, first-year students accepted for terms other than the fall? No

C16. Notification to applicants of admission decision sent by (date): April 1

C17. Reply policy for admitted applicants
Must reply by (date): May 1

C18. Deferred admission

Does your institution allow students to postpone enrollment after admission? Yes
If yes, maximum period of postponement: 2 years

C19. Early admission of high school students

Does your institution allow high school students to enroll as full-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) students one year or more before high school graduation? No

C20. Common application

Will you accept the Common Application distributed by the National Association of Secondary School Principals if submitted? No
Is your college a member of the Common Application Group? No

Early Decision and Early Action Plans
C21. Early decision

Does your institution offer an early decision plan (an admission plan that permits students to apply and be notified of an admission decision well in advance of the regular notification date and that asks students to commit to attending if accepted) for first-time, first-year (freshman) applicants for fall enrollment? Yes
If "yes," please complete the following:
First or only early decision plan closing date: November 1
First or only early decision plan notification date: December 15

For the Fall 2001 entering class:
Number of early decision applications received by your institution: 2,181
Number of applicants admitted under early decision plan: 517

C22. Early action

Do you have a nonbinding early action plan whereby students are notified of an admission decision well in advance of the regular notification date but do not have to commit to attending your college? No

D. TRANSFER ADMISSION
Fall Applicants
D1. Does your institution enroll transfer students? Yes

If yes, may transfer students earn advanced standing credit by transferring credits earned from course work completed at other colleges/universities? Yes

D2. Provide the number of students who applied, were admitted, and enrolled as degree-seeking transfer students in fall 2001.

D3. Indicate terms for which transfers may enroll: Fall

D4. Must a transfer applicant have a minimum number of credits completed or else must apply as an entering freshman? Yes
If yes, what is the minimum number of credits and the unit of measure? 26 semester/39 quarter

D5. Indicate all items required of transfer students to apply for admission:

D6. If a minimum high school grade point average is required of transfer applicants, specify
(on a 4.0 scale): N/A

D7. If a minimum college grade point average is required of transfer applicants, specify
(on a 4.0 scale): N/A

D8. List any other application requirements specific to transfer applicants:


D9. List application priority, closing, notification, and candidate reply dates for transfer students. If applications are reviewed on a continuous or rolling basis, place a check mark in the "Rolling admission" column.

D10. Does an open admission policy, if reported, apply to transfer students? No

D11. Describe additional requirements for transfer admission, if applicable:
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________

Transfer Credit Policies
D12. Report the lowest grade earned for any course that may be transferred for credit: C-

D13. Maximum number of credits or courses that may be transferred from a two-year institution:
Number: 90 Unit type: quarter

D14. Maximum number of credits or courses that may be transferred from a four-year institution:
Number: 90 Unit type: quarter

D15. Minimum number of credits that transfers must complete at your institution to earn an associate degree: N/A

D16. Minimum number of credits that transfers must complete at your institution to earn a bachelor's degree: 90

D17. Describe other transfer credit policies:
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________

E. ACADEMIC OFFERINGS AND POLICIES
E1. Special study options:

Library Collections
Report the number of holdings. Refer to the most recent Academic Libraries Survey for corresponding equivalents.
E4. Books, serial backfiles, and government documents (titles) that are accessible through the library's catalog: 7,,000,000
E5. Current serial subscriptions (paper, microform): 44,504
E6. Microforms (units): 4,975,102
E7. Audiovisual materials (units): 1,244,441

F. STUDENT LIFE
F1. Percentages of first-time, first-year (freshman) students and all degree-seeking undergraduates enrolled in fall 2001 who fit the following categories:

* includes 5.1% off campus, 0.3% at Stanford in Washington and 2.9% at overseas campuses.

F2. Activities offered

F3. ROTC (program offered in cooperation with Reserve Officers' Training Corps)
Army ROTC is offered at cooperating institution: Santa Clara University
Naval ROTC is offered at cooperating institution: UC Berkeley
Air Force ROTC is offered at cooperating institution: San Jose State University

F4. Housing: Check all types of college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing available for undergraduates at your institution.

G. ANNUAL EXPENSES
Provide 2002-2003 academic year costs for the following categories that are applicable to your institution.

G1. Undergraduate full-time tuition, required fees, room and board

List the typical tuition, required fees, and room and board for a full-time undergraduate student for the full 2002-2003 academic year (30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours for institutions that derive annual tuition by multiplying credit hour cost by number of credits). A full academic year refers to the period of time generally extending from September to June; usually equated to two semesters, two trimesters, three quarters, or the period covered by a four-one-four plan. Room and board is defined as double occupancy and 19 meals per week or the maximum meal plan. Required fees include only charges that all full-time students must pay that are not included in tuition (e.g., registration, health, or activity fees.) Do not include optional fees (e.g., parking, laboratory use).

Comprehensive tuition and room and board fee (if your college cannot provide separate tuition and room and board fees): _______________________
Other ______________________________________________________________________________________

G2. Number of credits per term a student can take for the stated full-time tuition ___minimum ___maximum

G3. Do tuition and fees vary by year of study (e.g., sophomore, junior, senior)? No

G4. If tuition and fees vary by undergraduate instructional program, describe briefly:

G5. Provide the estimated expenses for a typical full-time undergraduate student:

G6. Undergraduate per-credit-hour charges:

H. FINANCIAL AID
Aid Awarded to Enrolled Undergraduates
H1. Enter total dollar amounts awarded to full-time and less than full-time degree-seeking undergraduates (using the same cohort reported in CDS Question B1, "total degree-seeking" undergraduates) in the following categories. Include aid awarded to international students (i.e., those not qualifying for federal aid). Aid that is non-need-based but that was used to meet need should be reported in the need-based aid columns.

Indicate the academic year for which data are reported for items H1, H2, H2A, and H6 below: 2000-2001 final

H2. Number of Enrolled Students Receiving Aid

List the number of degree-seeking full-time and less-than-full-time undergraduates who applied for and received financial aid. Aid that is non-need-based but that was used to meet need should be counted as need-based aid. Numbers should reflect the cohort receiving the dollars reported in H1. Note: In the chart below, students may be counted in more than one row, and full-time freshmen should also be counted as full-time undergraduates.

H2A. Number of Enrolled Students Receiving Non-need-based Grants and Scholarships: List the number of degree-seeking full-time and less-then-full-time undergraduates who had no financial need and who received non-need-based gift aid. Numbers should reflect the cohort receiving the dollars reported in H1. Note: In the chart below, students may be counted in more than one row, and full-time freshmen should also be counted as full-time undergraduates.

H3: Which needs-analysis methodology does your institution use in awarding institutional aid?
___ Federal methodology (FM)
___ Institutional methodology (IM)
_X_ Both FM and IM

H4. Percent of the 2001 undergraduate class who graduated between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2001 and borrowed through any loan programs (federal, state, subsidized, unsubsidized, private, etc.; exclude parent loans). Include only students who borrowed while enrolled at your institution. 45%

H5. Average per-borrower cumulative undergraduate indebtedness of those in line H4. Do not include money borrowed at other institutions: $17,185

Aid to Undergraduate Degree-seeking Nonresident Aliens (Note: Report numbers and dollar amounts for the same academic year checked in item H1.)
H6. Indicate your institution's policy regarding financial aid for undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens:
X College-administered need-based financial aid is available

If college-administered financial aid is available for undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens, provide the number of undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens who received need-based or non-need-based aid: 190
Average dollar amount awarded to undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens: $ 24,388
Total dollar amount of financial aid from all sources awarded to all undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens:
$ 4,633,756

Process for First-Year/Freshman Students
H7. Financial aid forms domestic first-year (freshman) financial aid applicants must submit:
_X_ FAFSA
_X_ CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE

H8. Check off all financial aid forms nonresident alien first-year financial aid applicants must submit:
_X_ Foreign Student's Financial Aid Application
_X_ Foreign Student's Certification of Finances

H9. Indicate filing dates for first-year (freshman) students:
Priority date for filing required financial aid forms: __2/1_
Deadline for filing required financial aid forms: _____________
No deadline for filing required forms (applications processed on a rolling basis): ___________

H10. Indicate notification dates for first-year (freshman) students (answer a or b):
a.) Students notified on or about (date): _____________
b.) Students notified on a rolling basis: Yes If yes, starting date: __4/2_

H11. Indicate reply dates:
Students must reply by (date): __5/1_ or within _______ weeks of notification.

Types of Aid Available
Please check off all types of aid available to undergraduates at your institution:

H12. Loans

FEDERAL FAMILY EDUCATION LOAN PROGRAM (FFEL)
_X_ FFEL Subsidized Stafford LoansFFEL
_X_ FFEL Unsubsidized Stafford Loans

_X_ FFEL PLUS Loans

_X_ Federal Perkins Loans
_X_ Other (specify): GATE Loans

H13. Scholarships and Grants
NEED-BASED:
_X_ Federal Pell
_X_ SEOG
_X_ State scholarships/grants
_X_ Private scholarships
_X_ College/university gift aid from institutional funds

H14. Check off criteria used in awarding institutional aid. Check all that apply.

I.. INSTRUCTIONAL FACULTY AND CLASS SIZE
I-1. Please report number of instructional faculty members in each category for Fall 2001.
The following definition of instructional faculty is used by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in its annual Faculty Compensation Survey. Instructional Faculty is defined as those members of the instructional-research staff whose major regular assignment is instruction, including those with released time for research. Institutions are asked to EXCLUDE:
(a) instructional faculty in preclinical and clinical medicine
(b) administrative officers with titles such as dean of students, librarian, registrar, coach, and the like, even though they may devote part of their time to classroom instruction and may have faculty status,
(c) undergraduate or graduate students who assist in the instruction of courses, but have titles such as teaching assistant, teaching fellow, and the like
(d) faculty on leave without pay, and
(e) replacement faculty for faculty on sabbatical leave.

Full-time: faculty employed on a full-time basis
Part-time: faculty teaching less than two semesters, three quarters, two trimesters, or two four-month sessions. Also includes adjuncts and part-time instructors.
Minority faculty: includes faculty who designate themselves as black, non-Hispanic; American Indian or Alaskan native; Asian or Pacific Islander; or Hispanic.
Doctorate: includes such degrees as Doctor of Education, Doctor of Juridical Science, Doctor of Public Health, and Doctor of Philosophy degree in any field such as agronomy, food technology, education, engineering, public administration, ophthalmology, or radiology.
First-professional: includes the fields of dentistry (DDS or DMD), medicine (MD), optometry (OD), osteopathic medicine (DO), pharmacy (DPharm or BPharm), podiatric medicine (DPM), veterinary medicine (DVM), chiropractic (DC or DCM), law (JD) and theological professions (MDiv, MHL).
Terminal degree: the highest degree in a field: example, M. Arch (architecture) and MFA (master of fine arts).

I-2. Student to Faculty Ratio
Report the Fall 2001 ratio of full-time equivalent students (full-time plus 1/3 part time) to full-time equivalent instructional faculty (full time plus 1/3 part time). In the ratio calculations, exclude both faculty and students in stand-alone graduate or professional programs such as medicine, law, veterinary, dentistry, social work, business, or public health in which faculty teach virtually only graduate level students. Do not count undergraduate or graduate student teaching assistants as faculty.

Fall 2001 Student to Faculty ratio: 6.84 to 1

I-3. Undergraduate Class Size
In the table below, please use the following definitions to report information about the size of classes and class sections offered in the Fall 2001 term.

Class Sections: A class section is an organized course offered for credit, identified by discipline and number, meeting at a stated time or times in a classroom or similar setting, and not a subsection such as a laboratory or discussion session. Undergraduate class sections are defined as any sections in which at least one degree-seeking undergraduate student is enrolled for credit. Exclude distance learning classes and noncredit classes and individual instruction such as dissertation or thesis research, music instruction, or one-to-one readings. Exclude students in independent study, co-operative programs, internships, foreign language taped tutor sessions, practicums, and all students in one-on-one classes. Each class section should be counted only once and should not be duplicated because of course catalog cross-listings.

Class Subsections: A class subsection includes any subsection of a course, such as laboratory, recitation, and discussion subsections that are supplementary in nature and are scheduled to meet separately from the lecture portion of the course. Undergraduate subsections are defined as any subsections of courses in which degree-seeking undergraduate students enrolled for credit. As above, exclude noncredit classes and individual instruction such as dissertation or thesis research, music instruction, or one-to-one readings. Each class subsection should be counted only once and should not be duplicated because of cross-listings.
Using the above definitions, please report for each of the following class-size intervals the number of class sections and class subsections offered in Fall 2001. For example, a lecture class with 800 students who met at another time in 40 separate labs with 20 students should be counted once in the "100+" column in the class section column and 40 times under the "20-29" column of the class subsections table.

J. DEGREES CONFERRED

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Common Data Set definitions

2000-2001 Common Data Set

1999-2000 Common Data Set

1998 statistics

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