Resources

Articles

Is Your Degree Program Too Complicated? The Chronicle of Higher Education

How Reducing Curricular Complexity Can Help Boost Graduation Rates Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities 

Papers

Does Curricular Complexity Imply Program Quality? ASEE Peer

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FAQs

When I look at the dashboard, is this for declared majors only?

The data in the dashboard is course level data only, so it is major agnostic.  There is a difference between “in major” and “out of major” courses.  For instance, many programs require CHEM 171, so the data presented is an aggregate of all the students (regardless of major) that have taken the course during our sample period.  Conversely,  CHEM 351 is a major requirement for CHEM or CHEM adjacent programs, so more than likely only CHEM majors would have taken that course during our sample period.