CIRP SURVEY RESULTS

2003 Executive Summary

The Cooperative Institutional Research Program's (CIRP) Freshmen Survey, administered by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute, is completed by thousands of new students across the country as part of a national study of higher education. Since 1996, over 10 million freshmen have participated in the CIRP survey, establishing it as the nation's largest and oldest empirical study of higher education.

The questions on the survey cover a broad range of topics such as students' values and goals, their views on political and social issues, their high school experiences and college expectations, concerns about financing college, and reasons for attending college.

This summary highlights noteworthy items and trends for Northeastern students, and where appropriate, offers comparisons with national norms and a group of peer institutions.

Go to the link "CIRP Institutional Profile" to view student responses to the entire survey.

Profile of New Freshmen

The Profile of New Freshmen report contains five years of data on selected items from the CIRP Freshmen Survey.

CIRP Institutional Profile

The CIRP Institutional Profile contains responses from the cohort of first-time, full-time new freshmen at NEIU who participated in the survey during summer orientation. Responses from students at two comparison groups of institutions are also reported in the profile. Group 1: first-time, full-time freshmen at all public four-year institutions of low selectivity in the national sample, and Group 2: first-time, full-time freshmen at all public four-year institutions in the national sample.

• CIRP Institutional Profile 2004
• CIRP Institutional Profile 2003
• CIRP Institutional Profile 2002
• CIRP Institutional Profile 2001
• CIRP Institutional Profile 2000