Benchmarking Data Report on Cost

APS’s founding members share the ambition of building the nation’s authoritative source of discipline level benchmarks of instructional costs, enrollment patterns, and faculty utilization—a quantitative MRI of program performance to complement mission and quality priorities in academic planning.

This Benchmarking Data Report on Cost provides the APS membership with department level data by cohort, allowing members to compare their own cost per attempted student credit hour to like institutions. The department costs are also broken into four categories to provide more granular view that separates instructional salaries from non-instructional staff, benefits and operating expenses.