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Cost & Productivity Project Benchmarks

Cost & Productivity Project data are useful for staffing plans and decisions about faculty positions, for academic program planning and assessment, and for documentation of compliance for accreditation purposes. The unique advantage of Cost & Productivity Project data is its discipline-level unit of analysis.

Fiscally responsible colleges set priorities and assess programs with great care. Cost and Productivity Project data guides these decisions with information about the cost and faculty requirements by program.

The Cost & Productivity Project measures instructional cost per credit hour, faculty productivity, and class size by CIP code PLUS new non-instructional personnel and budget benchmarks. 

Members benefit from national reports, and the ability to compare your institution amongst similar peer institutions.

Academic Programs by Discipline

  • Instructional costs per student credit hour
  • Student-faculty ratios
  • Workload by full-time, part-time, other faculty
  • Students taught by full-time, part-time, other faculty

Administrative Departments

  • Staffing FTE 
    • Centralized
    • Decentralized 
    • System
  • Department Budgets
    • Personnel
    • Non-personnel by function

Student Services Departments

  • Staffing FTE
    • Centralized
    • Decentralized 
    • System
  • Department Budgets 
    • Personnel
    • Non-personnel by function