Assess your institution’s performance against well-chosen peers, set targets, and prioritize areas for strategic focus
As demand has grown for some programs, but declined for others, academic structures and staffing often haven’t kept up. Certain areas may be overworked and understaffed, while others are overstaffed for reduced student need. Curricula may be cumbersome, policies inconsistent, and faculty frustrated by uneven workload.
Strategic Benchmarking
Assess your institution’s performance against well-chosen peers, set targets, and prioritize areas for strategic focus
Many institutions track many metrics, but these often don’t translate into actionable insights—much less guidance or strategy. How much should we be spending on instruction, and other expenses? What should our net revenue per student be? Do we have the right number of personnel, both faculty and staff? What is an appropriate retention rate for a school like ours? How is our overall financial health, and how is it changing over time? Where should focus our attention for maximum impact?
Stragetic Benchmarking
Assess your institution’s performance against well-chosen peers, set targets, and prioritize areas for strategic focus
Many institutions track many metrics, but these often don’t translate into actionable insights—much less guidance or strategy. How much should we be spending on instruction, and other expenses? What should our net revenue per student be? Do we have the right number of personnel, both faculty and staff? What is an appropriate retention rate for a school like ours? How is our overall financial health, and how is it changing over time? Where should focus our attention for maximum impact?
Strategic Benchmarking
Assess your institution’s performance against well-chosen peers, set targets, and prioritize areas for strategic focus
Many institutions track many metrics, but these often don’t translate into actionable insights—much less guidance or strategy. How much should we be spending on instruction, and other expenses? What should our net revenue per student be? Do we have the right number of personnel, both faculty and staff? What is an appropriate retention rate for a school like ours? How is our overall financial health, and how is it changing over time? Where should focus our attention for maximum impact?
Strategic Benchmarking helps answer these questions, and more, by assessing dozens of metrics in areas including revenue, expenses, admissions, student outcomes, and overall financial health. Users can create customized peer groups, based on numerous factors, or even lists of institutions, so you can compare your performance with well-chosen groups.
This helps you assess your institution’s performance, set targets, identify the most impactful levers for transformative change, quantify their effects, and prioritize areas for strategic attention.
Data appears in easy-to-interpret and easy-to-share reports, dashboards, and tables. You can use our pre-built reports, explore specific metrics, and track two-metric relationships. Several dashboards are presentation-ready and can be shared with your faculty, president, or board.
Why did we build this? Sometimes, a college or university would ask us to do a project, but as we learned more, we realized that what they asked us to do wasn’t what would be most impactful for them; they should have focused on other areas. Strategic Benchmarking helps you identify the areas of greatest impact at your institution, and set appropriate goals for the work.
To find out more, please watch the video above, download sample reports, or schedule a call.
Strategic Benchmarking helps answer these questions, and more, by assessing dozens of metrics in areas including revenue, expenses, admissions, student outcomes, and overall financial health. Users can create customized peer groups, based on numerous factors, or even lists of institutions, so you can compare your performance with well-chosen groups.
This helps you assess your institution’s performance, set targets, identify the most impactful levers for transformative change, quantify their effects, and prioritize areas for strategic attention.
Data appears in easy-to-interpret and easy-to-share reports, dashboards, and tables. You can use our pre-built reports, explore specific metrics, and track two-metric relationships. Several dashboards are presentation-ready and can be shared with your faculty, president, or board.
Why did we build this? Sometimes, a college or university would ask us to do a project, but as we learned more, we realized that what they asked us to do wasn’t what would be most impactful for them; they should have focused on other areas. Strategic Benchmarking helps you identify the areas of greatest impact at your institution, and set appropriate goals for the work.
To find out more, please watch the video above, download sample reports, or schedule a call.
CONSULTING SERVICES
Data tools are most powerful when they are connected to clear processes, effective leadership, and sustained follow-through. UQ helps colleges and universities use data to make better decisions, build stronger systems, and implement initiatives that support enrollment growth, financial sustainability, workforce alignment, and mission fulfillment.
Our consulting work is grounded in UQ’s Program Optimization Framework: knowledge, process, and leadership. We help institutions understand internal performance and external opportunity, design practical decision-making processes, and lead change in ways that are collaborative, mission-aligned, and achievable.
UQ’s consultants bring deep experience in higher education leadership, academic strategy, enrollment management, finance, governance, communications, and implementation. Our work is practical and outcome-oriented: we help institutions move from insight to decision, and from decision to sustained action.
CONSULTING SERVICES
Data tools are most powerful when they are connected to clear processes, effective leadership, and sustained follow-through. UQ helps colleges and universities use data to make better decisions, build stronger systems, and implement initiatives that support enrollment growth, financial sustainability, workforce alignment, and mission fulfillment.
Our consulting work is grounded in UQ’s Program Optimization Framework: knowledge, process, and leadership. We help institutions understand internal performance and external opportunity, design practical decision-making processes, and lead change in ways that are collaborative, mission-aligned, and achievable.
UQ’s consultants bring deep experience in higher education leadership, academic strategy, enrollment management, finance, governance, communications, and implementation. Our work is practical and outcome-oriented: we help institutions move from insight to decision, and from decision to sustained action.
ACADEMIC PROGRAM REVIEW
UQ helps institutions move from periodic program review to ongoing, data-informed program management. Our current programs consulting supports a range of institutional needs, including academic program review, annual program health checks, resource allocation, faculty line planning, online program assessment, and specific decisions about where to invest, improve, reposition, reallocate, or discontinue.
Our approach begins with a framework calibrated to your institution’s goals, context, and governance culture. We help you identify the key issues that matter most, select appropriate metrics, establish thresholds and recommended ranges, group programs into common situations, and develop practical recommendations for action. Just as importantly, we help you design a process that is clear, collaborative, and manageable, with the right people involved at the right stages.
For institutions undertaking a formal academic program review, UQ provides end-to-end support. We conduct detailed analysis of programs and departments, help leadership establish goals and evaluation criteria, prepare data sheets and reports, support faculty and administrative engagement, and guide the institution toward decisions that are financially responsible, mission-aligned, and attentive to faculty workload and the student experience.
NEW PROGRAM SUPPORT
Many institutions want to grow enrollment by launching new programs. But identifying the right ones to drive growth at your institution, in your specific markets, is hard. Too often, new programs fall short of expectations. Worse, some prove to be expensive mistakes.
UQ helps colleges and universities identify new programs that will actually drive growth at your institution. We do this with both our Market Analyzer data tool and with our process support and consulting.
NEW PROGRAM SUPPORT
Many institutions want to grow enrollment by launching new programs. But identifying the right ones to drive growth at your institution, in your specific markets, is hard. Too often, new programs fall short of expectations. Worse, some prove to be expensive mistakes.
UQ helps colleges and universities identify new programs that will actually drive growth at your institution. We do this with both our Market Analyzer data tool and with our process support and consulting.
ACADEMIC PROGRAM REVIEW
UQ helps institutions move from periodic program review to ongoing, data-informed program management. Our current programs consulting supports a range of institutional needs, including academic program review, annual program health checks, resource allocation, faculty line planning, online program assessment, and specific decisions about where to invest, improve, reposition, reallocate, or discontinue.
Our approach begins with a framework calibrated to your institution’s goals, context, and governance culture. We help you identify the key issues that matter most, select appropriate metrics, establish thresholds and recommended ranges, group programs into common situations, and develop practical recommendations for action. Just as importantly, we help you design a process that is clear, collaborative, and manageable, with the right people involved at the right stages.
For institutions undertaking a formal academic program review, UQ provides end-to-end support. We conduct detailed analysis of programs and departments, help leadership establish goals and evaluation criteria, prepare data sheets and reports, support faculty and administrative engagement, and guide the institution toward decisions that are financially responsible, mission-aligned, and attentive to faculty workload and the student experience.
