CSUN Counts - Dashboards

Student Outcomes Landing Page

Use these dashboards to explore
• Retention rates: How many new students who entered in a given year returned 1, 2, or more years later?
• Continuation rates: How many students who entered CSUN in a given year are still enrolled?
• Graduation rates: For information about time to degree, explore graduation rates. How many students who entered at the same time graduate within a set number of years?
• Degree Recipients: How many people earned degrees at CSUN in a given year?
• Learning Outcomes: How many students are accomplishing learning outcomes?
• Earnings Outcomes: How much have alumni earned after graduating?

Student Progression, Continuation and Graduation Rates (Cohort Based)

One way to examine student success is to look at students’ progress through academic programs based on when they started. A group of students who entered in the same semester are considered an entry cohort. We can check how many students from each entry cohort returned for their second (or later) year, and how many graduated within 2, 4, or 6 years.

In this dashboard, you can track students’ progress by entry cohort. What percentage returned for their second year (2nd fall term)? You can also select which time-to-graduation rate to display (e.g., 2 years, 4 years, 6 years).
https://www.csun.edu/counts/student_progression.php

Of all the new students who started in a given fall semester, how many returned one or more years later? These dashboards allow you to explore continuation rates in a wide variety of ways.
• The Trends Over Time version of the Continuation Rates dashboard allows you to explore how continuation rates have changed over time for all students or for a selected subset. For example, you can filter by academic levels (e.g., undergraduate, freshmen, sophomores, graduate, masters) or within a college, department, major, ethnic group, or more.
https://www.csun.edu/counts/continuation_rate_by_semester.php
• The Build Your Own version of the Continuation Rates dashboard allows you to disaggregate by building your own table. For example, you could select rows that disaggregate by ethnicity to compare across ethnic groups and columns to disaggregate by both ethnicity and gender.
https://www.csun.edu/counts/continuation_rates_byor.php

Explore how many new students who entered in a given year have graduated within a selected number of years since entry. For example, what percentage of first-time freshmen graduated within 4 or 6 years? What percentage of first-time transfers graduated within 2 or 4 years? These dashboards allow you to explore graduation rates in a variety of ways.
• Trends Over Time allows you to explore how graduation rates have changed over time for all students or for a selected subset (e.g., by academic level such as undergraduate or graduate or within a college, department, major, ethnic group, or more).
https://www.csun.edu/counts/graduation_rates_by_semester.php
• Build Your Own allows you to disaggregate by building your own table. For example, you could select rows that disaggregate by ethnicity to compare across ethnic groups and columns to disaggregate by both ethnicity and gender.
https://www.csun.edu/counts/graduation_rates_byor.php

Degrees Awarded

Explore the number of degrees that have been awarded in a selected year(s). How many students graduated with a specific major or minor? Or from specific graduate programs? These dashboards count students based on when a degree was awarded without grouping students by entry cohort, so they don’t indicate time to degree.

Degree Recipients

There are two dashboard versions for each level of degree awarded:
• The Trends Over Time version allows you to examine how degrees received have changed over time for all students or for a selected subset (e.g., within a college, department, major, ethnic group, or more).
• With the Build Your Own version, you can disaggregate by building your own table. For example, you could select rows that disaggregate by ethnicity to compare across ethnic groups and columns to disaggregate by both ethnicity and gender.

You can explore degrees awarded by:

↳Trends Over Time
https://www.csun.edu/counts/undergraduate_degree_recipients.php
↳Build Your Own
https://www.csun.edu/counts/byor_undergraduate_degree_recipients.php

↳Trends Over Time
https://www.csun.edu/counts/masters_degree_recipients.php
↳Build Your Own
https://www.csun.edu/counts/byor_masters_degree_recipients.php

↳Trends Over Time
https://www.csun.edu/counts/doctorate_degree_recipients.php
↳Build Your Own
https://www.csun.edu/counts/byor_doctorate_degree_recipients.php

↳Trends Over Time
https://www.csun.edu/counts/minors_earned.php
↳Build Your Own
https://www.csun.edu/counts/byor_minors_earned.php

Learning Outcomes

Are students achieving mastery of institutional learning outcomes in the courses they are taking at CSUN? As part of Academic Assessment and Program Review, CSUN has created a dashboard to explore students’ mastery.

From this dashboard, you can explore students’ level of mastery (novice, proficient, advanced, mastery) in a variety of ways:
• Display overall outcomes by college, department, learning outcome, and term.
• Compare outcomes by institutional level (college, department), student characteristics (ethnicity, gender, class level), and course characteristics (modality, upper-/lower-division).
• Examine equity gaps in student learning outcomes.
• Explore the number of courses aligned with learning outcomes.

Visit CSUN LOADs

Employment Outcomes

Explore CSUN graduates’ earnings and employment.

Calstatepays.org, is an interactive website that tracks the longitudinal earnings and employment of approximately 670,000 students who entered any one of six L.A.-metro CSU campuses, including CSUN, over the last 20 years. The project was originally funded by the Strada Foundation and the site was launched in 2017.