What is Institutional Research?

Transforming data into information that can be used to support institutional planning, policy making, and decision making.

Objective of Institutional Research

Support of senior leadership, administrators, faculty, staff and students by providing objective and reliable information to guide them in decision making.

Institutional Research at AUC

The Office of Institutional Research:

• Collects data from both internal and external sources, and then analyzes, distributes, and presents this information for use in planning, decision-making, and policy formulation at  AUC.
• Responds to diverse requests for data from internal and external constituencies, and assists all units with research and assessment methodology, evaluation, and analysis.
• Has access to and is responsible for reporting from University databases and the Office provides consultation, and analytical support for several other recurring projects such as  reports to the Egyptian government, Middle States annual data summaries, reports to other accrediting bodies, reports on retention and graduation rates,  GPA analyses among many other studies.