HB 355

Abstract

State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; website; posting of certain comparative data relating to undergraduate students. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to maintain on its website a comparison of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education to each other baccalaureate public institution of higher education on an enumerated list of undergraduate student metrics and requires each such institution to maintain a link on its website to such comparison.

Baccalaureate public institution of higher education; website; posting of certain comparative data relating to undergraduate students. Requires each baccalaureate public institution of higher education to include on the tab or link that it maintains on its website with certain information about the institution a comparison of the institution to its in-state and out-of-state peer institutions on the following measures: (i) the middle 50 percent test score range of first-time undergraduate students whose ACT or SAT scores were in the 25th to 75th percentile of the scores of enrolled students; (ii) the percentage of the students who applied for and were offered first-time undergraduate admission; (iii) the percentage of admitted students who were in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating classes; (iv) the average and net annual total academic costs for an undergraduate student living on campus and enrolled in 30 semester credit hours; (v) the average undergraduate student educational debt and the average rate of interest on such debt; (vi) the freshman-to-sophomore and freshman-to-junior retention rates for full-time undergraduate students; (vii) the four-year, five-year, and six-year undergraduate graduation rates; (viii) the average number of fall and spring semesters of enrollment attempted by a student to obtain a bachelor's degree; (ix) the average undergraduate student score on the Collegiate Learning Assessment; (x) the employment potential of undergraduate students; (xi) the job placement status of undergraduate students within the first three years of graduation; and (xii) the average income of alumni over the first 20 years of their careers.