Gainful Employment Focus Groups - Students, For Profit and Public Institutions

Attachment J – Institutional Representative Ranking Sheet 3

Ranking Exercise #3 for all GE Data Elements for Institutional Representatives

Gainful Employment Information

September 17, 2015

Instructions: For each of the 10 GE items below, please rank their importance to students from 1 (most important) to 10 (least important). (Please note that some GE items are excluded because they are currently being collected or will be collected (e.g., program length, program costs, enrollment, whether program is accredited).

____ Number of clock or credit hours or equivalent in the program (Institution Provides)

____ Loan repayment rate (calculated for all students who enrolled, completed or withdrew from the

program who entered repayment on Title IV loans during the two-year cohort period (ED Calculates)

____ Percentage of students who received a Title IV loan or a private loan (Institution Provides)

____ Median loan debt (Calculated by ED)

____ Program cohort default rate (Calculated by ED)

____ Completion Rates (Calculated by ED)—Full Time and Part-Time Students

____ Withdrawal rates (Calculated by ED)

____ Placement rate for the program, if the institution is required by its accrediting agency or State to calculate a placement rate (Institution Provides)

____ Mean or median earnings (Calculated by ED)

____Annual earnings rate (Calculated by ED)