Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	74.49
Liaison	Krista Bailey
Submission Date	Dec. 17, 2020

STARS v2.2

Pennsylvania State University
PRE-5: Academics and Demographics

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Number of academic divisions:

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:

46,479

Total number of employees:

16,902

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:

45,798

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

Full-time equivalent of employees:

15,265

On-Campus Residents

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

Number of students resident on-site:

14,180

Number of employees resident on-site:

Number of other individuals resident on-site:

Weighted Campus Users

Weighted campus users, performance year:

49,342.25

Optional Fields

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Penn State also reported 7,364 FTE distance education students enrolled during FY18/19. 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.

Headcounts and FTEs of students and employees are based on data drawn from the Penn State Fact Book, Fall 2018 snapshot, which was deemed to be most consistent with the FY18/19 and calendar year 2019 data upon which our STARS report is based. We report values for the University Park campus, and for Penn State Law, which is located on the UP campus.

For headcount of employees, we totaled the following categories to avoid double-counting student employees: no. of full-time; no. of academic part-time; no. of non-academic/non-student part-time; no. of casual/non-student part-time.

To compute FTE of employees we used the IPEDS formula = #FT employees + (#PT employees * 1/3).

Number of on-campus residents was provided by the Office of Residence Life.

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.

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.