System-Level Accountability Scorecard
Assessments: Progress toward Implementing the Strategic Plan

High Quality Learning Programs & Services Indicator 9: Program Development - Programs are responsive to current and future market needs.

Measure 9D: Five High Priority Programs

Measure 9D reports the number and percent of system instructional programs and graduates in five high priority undergraduate program areas. The five areas were chosen by system leadership in response to a legislative directive and include business and information technology, education, engineering and manufacturing technology, health care and law enforcement (click here for a printer friendly PDF copy of this page).

Significance: Measure 9D is signficant in that it indicates the extent to which the colleges and universities are offering instructional programs and producing graduates in these five program areas that provide an educated workforce for Minnesota private- and public-sector employers. The liberal arts and sciences, because they are integral to the higher education enterprise, provide the foundation for the program areas.

Measure: The majority of system instructional programs are in the five high priority program areas in Fiscal Year 2005, as shown in Figure 9D-1. The majority of system graduates also were in the five high priority program areas in Fiscal Year 2003, as shown in Figure 9D-2..

Context: The system provides the majority of
the State’s graduates in four of the five high
priority program areas, as shown in Figure 9D-3.