Workstream #6 Report—Professional Master’s Degrees National Alignment
The workstream report, “Professional Master’s Degrees: National Alignment” provides a comprehensive analysis of Penn State’s professional master’s programs in comparison to the national landscape. Prepared by Hanover Research, the report characterizes data based on how the individual program metrics compare to the national employment growth, average annual openings, degree completions, and the compound annual growth rate.
Data compiled from this report are meant to serve as a resource for further discussion and analysis, in combination with other future APPR reports, and not as a stand-alone decision-making tool. The categorizations and rankings that appear in the report are part of Hanover’s research methodology and illustrate how they analyzed the data sources used in the report. It is the University’s responsibility to provide additional context and data, as needed, to the report. The accompanying documents help to outline Hanover’s own methodology, as agreed upon by the many individuals working on the APPR project, as well as a few limitations that exist within the data.
Report and supplemental materials
For those who would like to review and learn more about the report, the APPR tri-chairs recommend you read the report, and accompanying documents, in the following order:
- Preamble
- Report
- Data and Information Team Compendium: Highlights the methodological and data concerns that emerged as part of the report process.
- Data Supplement: An Excel document that includes all of the raw data and complete portfolio data; the report itself only comprises examples based on the data findings.
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