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 | Student Surveys
Undergraduate Graduating Student Survey
The LSU Undergraduate Graduating Student Survey, which has been administered to seniors since 1996, provides insight into graduating students’ perspectives on their achievement of general and programmatic learning goals, on the University environment, and on the amount of time they spend studying working, and involved in various activities. The links below provide cumulative institutional data since the survey’s inception in 1996 and cumulative data for the last three years. Survey data broken out by college and by department are viewable by the particular units. View the survey.
Cooperative Institutional Research Project (CIRP)
LSU occasionally participates in the Cooperative Institutional Research Project (CIRP), a survey of Fall semester first-time freshmen coordinated by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. The survey tracks such information as probable field of study, reason for college choice, political orientation, parental education and occupation, racial background, source of finances, and religious preference. Students also self-rate various abilities and skills, and provide estimates of how they spent their time during the final year of high school. Besides basic breakouts, the files include comparisons to other public universities.
2002 CIRP Summary (LSU First-Time Full-Time) -- View the Survey Results
2002 CIRP Summary (LSU Standard Breakouts) -- View the Survey Results
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)
LSU participated in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) for the first time in 2003. NSSE, which assesses the extent to which university students are participating in educational practices that are associated with “high levels of learning and personal development,” is administered to representative samples of freshmen and seniors. Items on the survey are clustered under five benchmarks of effective educational practice: Level of Academic Challenge, Active and Collaborative Learning, Student-Faculty Interaction, Enriching Educational Experiences, and Supportive Campus Environment.
LSU A&M 2003 Benchmark Report
LSU A&M NSSE 2003 Means and Frequency Reports
LSU A&M Respondent Characteristics Table
Your First College Year (YFCY)
The Your First College Year (YFCY) survey was developed in 1999 by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA and The Policy Center on the First Year of College at Brevard College to enhance local and national assessment of the first college year. This national survey, intended to be administered at the end of the first year, is designed to measure students’ curricular and co-curricular experiences since entering college. LSU freshmen participated in the first full administration of the survey during Spring Semester 2003. While the CIRP Freshmen survey provides institutions with baseline data about their students (i.e., a profile of students at the time of college entry), the YFCY survey provides institutions with information about the college environments and student outcomes during the first college year. Placing YFCY data alongside CIRP data provides insight into how LSU freshmen changed over the course of the year.
2003 First-time Full-time Students
2003 Non FTFT Students and All Respondents
2003 Means Profile
2003 Longitudinal Report |
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