Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 76.41
Liaison Krista Bailey
Submission Date Dec. 12, 2023

STARS v2.2

Pennsylvania State University
PRE-5: Academics and Demographics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Krista Bailey
Sustainable Campus Strategist
Sustainability Institute
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Number of academic divisions:
14

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent):
88

Number of students enrolled for credit:
47,559

Total number of employees:
20,063

Full-time equivalent student enrollment:
46,683.20

Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education:
9,789.40

Full-time equivalent of employees:
16,385.76

Number of students resident on-site:
13,621

Number of employees resident on-site:
0

Number of other individuals resident on-site:
0

Weighted campus users, performance year:
43,364.92

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

We report values for the University Park campus.

Headcounts and FTEs of students in FA21 was drawn from the Penn State Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research data digest page on student enrollment (https://datadigest.psu.edu/student-enrollment/) and verified by Cheryl Murphy,
Programmer/Analyst, Office of Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research.

Employee data was provided by a Workday (Penn State's workforce management system) query conducted by the Office of Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research.

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.
The employee’s FTE percentage in the Workday/Humors table was used to calculate the FTE value. To compute FTE of employees we used the IPEDS formula = #FT employees + (#PT employees * 1/3).
The same criteria were run excluding where Employee Type = “Student” to ensure students employees were not double counted as both a part-time staff and as a student.

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.

For the number of academic divisions and academic departments we referenced The Undergraduate Bulletin https://bulletins.psu.edu/undergraduate/colleges/ and counted the number of Colleges and Departments, and then the Schools within those Colleges.


We report values for the University Park campus.

Headcounts and FTEs of students in FA21 was drawn from the Penn State Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research data digest page on student enrollment (https://datadigest.psu.edu/student-enrollment/) and verified by Cheryl Murphy,
Programmer/Analyst, Office of Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research.

Employee data was provided by a Workday (Penn State's workforce management system) query conducted by the Office of Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research.

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.
The employee’s FTE percentage in the Workday/Humors table was used to calculate the FTE value. To compute FTE of employees we used the IPEDS formula = #FT employees + (#PT employees * 1/3).
The same criteria were run excluding where Employee Type = “Student” to ensure students employees were not double counted as both a part-time staff and as a student.

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.

For the number of academic divisions and academic departments we referenced The Undergraduate Bulletin https://bulletins.psu.edu/undergraduate/colleges/ and counted the number of Colleges and Departments, and then the Schools within those Colleges.

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