College Scorecards
- Sangita Singh
- Penchala Akshay Kumar Kandagaddala
- Shruti Kumar
College Scorecards, part of the College Accountability Framework, evaluates the performance of individual colleges and USF using 12 metrics linked to annual goals. This tool offers a clear view for accountability and improvement, measuring metrics over academic, calendar, and fiscal year.
Currently, scorecards are available only for Academic Affairs Colleges.
Metrics in progress are displayed in green, while finalized metrics are shown in blue.
There are four tabs:
- 2024-2025 College Scorecard: Performance of individual colleges over 12 metrics for the current academic year.
- 2024-2025 USF Scorecard: Combined data for all colleges (including Health) for the current academic year.
- 2023-2024 College Scorecard: Performance of individual colleges over 12 metrics for the previous academic year (historic college scorecard).
- 2023-2024 USF Scorecard: Combined data for all colleges (including Health) for the previous academic year (historic USF scorecard).
Refresh Schedule:
- Individual scorecards are updated at different intervals and contain the latest available data. Retention and graduation metrics are updated at benchmarks, with scorecards refreshed within 3-7 days of the benchmark dates. The individual metrics refresh schedule is mentioned below.
Metric Finalization Schedule:
Academic Year Metrics:
- FTIC Retention Rate and Academic Progress Rate metrics: These two metrics are finalized in late January of the following year. For example, data for the 2023-2024 cohort year will be finalized in January 2025, once the final fall 2024 benchmark data is available.
- Graduation Metrics (FTIC and FCS AA): The five graduation metrics are finalized in early October of the ending cohort year. For example, data for the 2021-2024 cohort year will be finalized in October 2024, once the summer 2024 degrees are available.
Calendar Year Metric:
- Faculty Award metric: This metric is finalized in late January of the following year. For example, data for the 2024 calendar year year will be finalized in January 2025.
Fiscal Year Metrics:
- Sponsored Research Total Expenditures, Sponsored Research Total Expenditures Tenure Track FTE, Total Fundraising metrics: These three metrics are finalized in late July. For example, fiscal year 2024 will end in June 2025 and the finalized data be available in July 2025.
Data Sources:
The data utilized in generating the College Scorecards is sourced from multiple repositories:
- Goals: College Goals are provided by college leadership during annual goal setting process. USF goals are from BOG approved USF accountability plan
- FTIC Cohort Numbers: First-Time-in-College (FTIC) Cohorts generated using benchmark data in SID
- Research Data: From ORI (Operational Research and Innovation) Research Reporting Database
- Faculty Data: From Faculty database
- Fundraising Data: From USF Foundation
Retention Scorecards:
1. FTIC Freshmen Retention Rate Full Time
2. Academic Progress Rate Full Time (APR)
These are Academic Year Metrics.
Note:
The initial setting of the dial is calibrated to 100% at the beginning of the academic year and stays at 100% during the first fall semester. As the academic year progresses and we approach the spring semester, the displayed rate starts reflecting the true retention rate for the semester and might show a number lower than 100%. The dial updates represent the progress toward our retention rate goal. This metric gets finalized during the second fall semester. Ex: For cohort year 2023-2024, for the entire duration of Fall 2023, the dial will be at 100%. For Spring 2024, it will start reflecting the true Fall to Spring retention rate (% of the students who started in Fall 2023 and were retained in Spring 2024). For summer 2024 semester, it will show the true Fall to Summer retention rate (% of the students who started in Fall 2023 and were retained in Summer 2024). Finally for Fall 2024, it will show the % of the students who started in Fall 2023 and retained in Fall 2024. This metric will have its final fata for cohort year 2023-2024 in January 2025 when the Fall 2024 Final bench data is available.
Refresh Schedule:
- Retention Rate metrics are refreshed four times in the academic year.
- Data is refreshed in the Fall semester at the Preliminary benchmark to establish the initial cohort.
- Fall Final benchmark refresh date is staggered to include cohort adjustments submitted with Retention file at the end of Jan.
| Term | Benchmark | Refresh Date Timeframe | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall (1st Fall) | Preliminary | Late Oct | This is the initial Cohort. Progress to Goal dial is set at 100% in the first Fall term. |
Fall (1st Fall) | Final, Retention (Cohort Adjustments) | Late Jan | Refresh reflects any cohort adjustments. Progress to Goal dial is set at 100% in the first Fall term. |
| Spring | Preliminary | Late Feb | Progress to Goal displays the % of students from the original cohort retained in the Spring term. (For APR with >=2.0 GPA at the beginning of the Spring term) |
| Summer | Preliminary | Early Jul | Progress to Goal displays the % of students from the original cohort retained in the Summer term. (For APR with >=2.0 GPA at the beginning of the Summer term) |
| Fall (2nd Fall) | Drop/Add | Late Aug | Progress to Goal displays the % of students from the original cohort retained in the 2nd Fall (@Drop/Add bench) (For APR with >=2.0 GPA at the beginning of the 2nd Fall term) |
Graduation Rate Scorecards:
3. FTIC 4 Yr Graduation Rate Full Time
4. FTIC Pell 4 Yr Graduation Rate Full Time
5. FTIC 6 Yr Graduation Rate Full Time & Part Time
6. FTIC Pell 6 Yr Graduation Rate Full Time & Part Time
7. FCS AA Transfer 3 Yr Grad Rate Full Time & Part Time
These are Academic Year Metrics.
Refresh Schedule:
- Graduation Rate metrics are refreshed thrice in the academic year (Fall, Spring, Summer), at the end of each semester when Degrees are reported to the BOG.
- The Fall Degree benchmark refresh date is staggered to include cohort adjustments submitted with the Retention file at the end of Jan.
| Term | Benchmark | Refresh Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Degrees, Retention (Cohort Adjustments) | Late Jan | This refresh includes Fall Degrees as well as any cohort adjustments submitted on the Retention File |
| Spring | Degrees | Late Jun | |
| Summer | Degrees | Late Sep |
Graduation Metrics get finalized after Summer degrees are available. Ex: Data for the 6 year Graduation metrics for 2018-2024 cohort year will be finalized in October 2024, once the summer 2024 degrees are available.
Faculty Scorecards:
8. Faculty Awards
This is Calendar Year Metrics.
Refresh Schedule:
- The Faculty Awards metric is refreshed three times per Calendar Year, in Jan, Jun and Oct.
| Term | Benchmark | Refresh Date |
|---|---|---|
| Fall | Final | Mid Jan |
Spring | Final | Early Jun |
| Summer | Final | Late Sep |
This metric is finalized in late January of the following year. For example, data for the 2024 calendar year year will be finalized in January 2025.
Research Scorecards:
9. Sponsored Research Total Expenditures
10. Sponsored Research Total Expenditures Per Tenure Track FTE
These are Fiscal Year Metrics.
Refresh Schedule: Research metrics are updated nightly. These two metrics are finalized in late July. For example, fiscal year 2023 will end in June 2024 and the finalized data be available in July 2024.
Philanthropy Scorecards:
11. Total Fundraising
This is Fiscal Year Metric.
Refresh Schedule: Total Fundraising metric is updated twelve times per Fiscal Year. Data is refreshed by the 14th of every month, except in July. The July update is the final update for the Fiscal Year and the data will be refreshed by 21st of July.
Other Scorecards:
12. Citation Impact (Coming soon)