Benchmarking Progress

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Selecting a group of peer institutions allows a comparative analysis, on a regular basis, to national universities that have similar characteristics. Peer universities are not alike in every way and are intended to act as a benchmark for evaluating our progress on selected university level metrics. The peer universities listed below are all public universities with a medical school and are classified as very high research within the Carnegie classification.

	VCU	U Alabama Birmingham	U Illinois Chicago	U of Louisville	U of SC Columbia	U of South Florida	U of Cincinnati
Total HC	36,862	19,455	29,301	23,999	30,549	46,348	35,005
UG Headcount % of Total	69%	64%	60%	73%	69%	75%	69%
% of under-represented minority students	21%	23%	22%	14%	14%	26%	11%
1st Year Retention	85%	80%	78%	78%	87%	88%	83%
6-Year Graduation Rate	49%	39.8%	48.1%	45.7%	66.7%	48.1%	54.9%
% STEM Degrees	13%	17%	24%	15%	14%	15%	18%
% Health Science Degrees	11%	19%	7%	8%	4%	5%	18%
NSF R&D Expend (mill)	$150,989	$431,732	$341,655	$146,874	$186,966	$309,456	$356,752
NSF Rank	73	24	37	75	69	44	34
Library ARL Rank (of 114)			70	79	88		71
Endowment per FTE	1,014	21,737	6,065	34,425	11,927	7,599	31,654
% FT Faculty	65%	93.2%	62.4%	72.8%	71.9%	87.6%	58.1%
% of FT Faculty who are Tenure or Tenure Track	44%	61%	66%	64%	67%	69%	50%