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Office of Decision Support

Data Center

North Quad View of ISU in the spring

Reports and Dashboards

Data that are available to both internal and external constituents. Reports and dashboards include enrollment, degrees, retention rates, graduation rates, faculty and staff data, credit hours, and other related data.

Group of ISU Students sitting outside in the quad on a nice day

Peer Groups

Illinois State University has four main peer groups that it benchmarks itself against for university-wide comparisons.

Night view of ISU from a overview angle with lights glowing

External Data

Data that is reported by the University in which data guidelines are imposed to meet the universal sampling required.

Students seated outside of the State Farm Hall of Business building on a sunny day.

Data Archives

Archives of Enrollment Reports and university data reports of the University Fact Sheet, Fact Book, Fact Pamphlet, and the Common Data Set can be found here.

Students walking on the Quad on the Fall.

Cognos

IBM Cognos is an enterprise tool used by Illinois State University for data reporting purposes. The software is designed to enable users to be able to access information via managed reports.

Milner Library in the spring

Additional Resources

Data is available from many sources. Visit this page to learn about additional locations of external and internal data.