Office of Institutional Research & Analytics

The Office of Institutional Research & Analytics is responsible for accumulating, maintaining, and sharing the College’s institutional history. The office maintains data on key student, staffing, and financial trends that are communicated to senior management and shared with the various college guidebooks. The office also coordinates reporting to the U.S. Department of Education, provides institutional data to the College’s national and regional accreditors, and prepares operational and financial reviews for its debt rating services.

Common Data Set

The Common Data Set is a standard set of questions used by a consortium of college guidebook publishers to collect commonly-requested statistics about the College.

See http://www.commondataset.org/ for more information about the Common Data Set.

Comparison Schools

The College has two key sets of comparison schools that it typically uses for benchmarking purposes:

  • The "20-School" group consists of a mix of Patriot League, local, aspirational, as well as academically similar schools while
  • The "Admissions Overlap" group consists of institutions typically sharing the most cross-admitted students with Holy Cross.

Key Data Trends

Each year, the College shares key academic and financial trends with alumni and friends in its fall edition of Holy Cross Magazine.  Metrics for the most recent five fiscal years include:

  • Admission and enrollment statistics
  • Student retention and graduation rates
  • Academic resources
  • Student charges
  • Financial resources

Contact Us

Chris Wenze
cwenz@holycross.edu 
Director of Institutional Research & Analytics
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street, 159 O’Kane
Worcester, MA 01610-2395
(508) 793-2354