Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	67.88
Liaison	Krista Bailey
Submission Date	Sept. 14, 2017
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

Pennsylvania State University
IC-3: Academics and Demographics

Status	Score	Responsible Party
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Number of academic divisions (e.g. colleges, schools):

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent):

Headcounts

Report the unduplicated total number of students enrolled and workers employed over a 12-month period or else representative headcounts (e.g. autumn figures).

Number of students enrolled for credit:

46,195

Total number of employees (staff + faculty):

17,027

Full-Time Equivalents (FTE)

Report the institution’s best estimates, annualized as feasible and/or calculated according to relevant national, regional or international standards. Non-credit students may be included.

Full-time equivalent student enrollment (undergraduate and graduate):

45,661

Full-time equivalent of employees (staff + faculty):

15,577

Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education:

On-Campus Residents

Report annualized headcounts as feasible or else representative snapshots (e.g. autumn headcounts).

Number of students resident on-site:

14,211

Number of employees resident on-site:

Number of other individuals resident on-site, e.g. family members of employees, individuals lodging on-site (by average occupancy rate), and/or staffed hospital beds (if applicable):

Weighted Campus Users

Weighted campus users, performance year:

49,481.25

Optional Fields

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Penn State also reported 6,320 FTE distance education students enrolled during FY15/16. These students are reported separately as World Campus students, and are not included in the University Park campus FTE and headcounts given above. For that reason we do not include them in the distance education reporting field above, as doing so would result in an incorrect calculation of Weighted Campus Users by STARS. Counts of students and employees are based on the Fall 2015 snapshot, which was deemed to be most consistent with the FY15/16 and calendar year 2016 data upon which our STARS report is based. FTE of employees was estimated by using full-time and part-time non-student headcounts from the Penn State Fact Book, and assuming that part-time and "casual" workers are 0.625 FTE. Number of residential employees was not available; assumed zero because likely very small. Count of academic departments includes departments, and colleges and schools that lack departments (e.g., Law, Nursing); these were each counted as one department. Programs were not counted, however many of these - which cross departmental and even college boundaries - fall into the sustainability realm.

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