Frequently asked questions about course enrollment and credit hour data. This includes course enrollment trends, student credit hour production, student FTE’s, distance learning, and grade performance data. Below are links to our new visualizations and tables from the historical Fact Book.

The new visualizations below are intended to replace the PDF documents that have historically comprised the Fact Book. These historical views will be available through summer 2023.

How have student credit hours taken within colleges and departments changed over time? (CE-01)
Historical view: Table 2-10

How have student credit hours taken on- and off-campus changed over time? (CE-02)
Historical view: Table 2-12

How have student credit hours taken via the internet changed over time? (CE-03)
Historical view: Table 2-17b

How has annual student FTE taken on- and off-campus changed over time? (CE-04)
Historical view: Table 2-12; 2-24

How does student grade performance differ between colleges and level of courses? (CE-05)
Historical view: Table 2-12

These new visualizations replace the interactive data housed on this website. The historic interactive data views will be available until the end of 2023.

Summary tables in the Fact Book are based on data gathered during census dates and are published to this page after official approval by the State Council for Higher Education in Virginia and/or other mandated reporting agencies.

Links to tables are made active when official data are available to report.