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Bluebook of Student Trends
- Money
- Year End Revenue by Object
- Year End Expenditures by Object
- Year End Expenditures by Department
- Year End Expenditures by Program
- Instruction Expenditures per Student FTE by Department
- Students
- Fall Majors by Level
- Student Demographics by College
- AY Student Credit Hours by Department
- Student Credit Hours by Term and Subject Field (Registrar's Enrollment Report C, Part A)
- FTE by Fee Status and Term
- Degrees Awarded Annually by Major
- Faculty
- AY Faculty, Staff and Student FTE
- Student/Faculty Ratios
Beginning 00-01, the Department of Biology split into two departments, the Department of Ecology and the Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience. The split is represented through out all reports. Student credit hours have been allocated to either department according to the faculty member who taught the class.
During 97-98, the College of Agriculture reorganized several of its programs and departments. The departments of Plant Pathology and Plant, Soil & Environmental Sciences were discontinued, and the faculty in those departments, plus some from the College of Letters and Science, formed the new departments of Plant Sciences and Land Resources & Environmental Sciences. This reorganization affected many of the Blue Book reports for the College of Agriculture, beginning in 98-99.
During 96-97, MSU-Bozeman was granted the authority to offer the Master of Science in Science Education. Since this is an intercollege degree, it appears under Miscellaneous rather than a specific college. Expenditures are counted under General Miscellaneous for 96-97; beginning 97-98, the program has its own heading.
In 96-97, the reporting relationship of the Departments of Aerospace Studies and Military Sciences switched from the College of Letters and Science to the College of Engineering. The departments are grouped in the Blue Book as Military Studies-Both.
On January 1, 1996, the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering merged as the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. At the request of the College of Engineering, the former departments are maintained in the Blue Book.
In 94-95 the Department of Speech Communication merged into the Department of Psychology, with the major becoming an option in that department. Both communications and psychology budgets, majors, degrees, and FTE are now counted under the Department of Psychology.
In 94-95 the Department of Agricultural and Technology Education was discontinued, with budgets and FTE moved to the Department of Education. Majors and degrees in Agricultural Education are counted under Agriculture Miscellaneous within the College of Agriculture, while those in Technology Education are counted under the Department of Education. All budgets, FTE faculty, and FTE students for both programs are counted under the Department of Education.
FTE students for all units of the Montana University System are calculated using a formula supplied by the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education. For any given term (quarter or semester), FTE students are calculated by dividing undergraduate student credit hours (UGSCH) by 15, graduate credit hours (GSCH) by 12, and then summing the results. Conversion from the quarter system to the semester system altered the calculation of fiscal year FTE students (FYFTE).
The number of FTE students taught in one fiscal year is known as FYFTE. For fiscal years on the semester system, FYFTE is calculated as
total undergraduate SCH + total graduate SCH
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30 24
where 30 SCH is considered to be the credit load equivalent to one
full-time undergraduate, and 24 SCH is considered to be the credit
load equivalent to one full-time graduate student. The Commissioner approved that, beginning in 99-00, student credit hours for 400-level courses taken by graduate students for graduate credit could be counted as graduate credits rather than upper-division credits and thus calculated as graduate FTE. This calculation adjustment increased MSU's total FTE students by about 20 for fall 2000. In this report, some departments that do not offer graduate-level courses now show a small graduate FTE because graduate students have taken their 400-level courses for graduate credit.
FYFTE on the quarter system is calculated as
total undergraduate SCH + total graduate SCH
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45 36
FTE students are not listed in this report for spring semester prior to 91-92, when MSU was on the quarter system.
For 91-92, summer session was considered a quarter, while autumn
and spring were semesters. Therefore, FYFTE for 91-92 is calculated as
sum UGSCH + sum GSCH + aut UGSCH + aut GSCH + spr UGSCH + spr GSCH
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45 36 30 24 30 24
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