FAEIS Newsletter

December 17, 2007

In This Issue:

Holiday Office Schedule

Survey Announcements
Animal Science Graduate Enrollment

Greetings and happy holidays from the FAEIS team at Virginia Tech. If you are not familiar with this important project from USDA/CSREES, click here to read about FAEIS and why it is important to you.

Holiday Office Schedule

Due to office renovations, the FAEIS office will be closed the week of December 17 - 21, 2007, but we will still be able to respond to your email inquiries. In addition, the FAEIS team will be on holiday leave from December 21 - January 1. We will be back in the office to take your calls and emails on January 2, 2008.

Survey Announcements

We are still waiting to receive the Fall 2007 College Enrollment survey back from many of you. This is a very simple e-mail based survey to collect the total enrollment for your college. If you don't know if your college has submitted this information, please see the 2007 College Enrollment Status Report. To view the survey, click here.

FAEIS Student and Faculty surveys opened for data entry on Oct 15, 2007. The early deadline for FAEIS 2007 data entry is February 1, 2008.

THANK YOU to those who have completed your surveys. We appreciate you taking your time to provide this important information.

Animal Science Graduate Enrollment

This is our first newsletter about graduate enrollment.  We chose Animal Sciences as our first graduate discipline to study because of its importance to Colleges of Agriculture.  Enrollment has been subdivided into masters and doctoral enrollment in the charts below; there are differences between these two degrees in enrollment, gender, and ethnicity.

Highlights:

* Both masters and doctoral enrollments are declining.

*73% of master's students are Caucasian, US citizens.

*53% of doctoral students are Caucasian, US citizens; 38% are non US citizens.

* Master's students are primarily female (59%) while doctoral students are primarily male (55%).

Masters Enrollment in the Animal Sciences, General Discipline

Note: Fifty-six of the 315 FAEIS institutions reported masters enrollment in the Animal Sciences, General discipline in at least one of the years 2004 - 2006.

Doctoral Enrollment in the Animal Sciences, General Discipline

Note: Forty of the 315 FAEIS institutions reported doctorate enrollment in the Animal Sciences, General discipline in at least one of the years 2004 - 2006.

Masters Enrollment by Race in Animal Sciences, General at 37 Institutions

with 3 Consecutive Years of Data, Based on the 3 Year Total, 2004-2006

Doctorate Enrollment by Race in Animal Sciences, General at 26 Institutions

with 3 Consecutive Years of Data, Based on the 3 Year Total, 2004-2006

Masters Enrollment by Gender in Animal Sciences, General at 37 Institutions

with 3 Consecutive Years of Data, Based on the 3 Year Total, 2004-2006

Doctorate Enrollment by Gender in Animal Sciences, General at 26 Institutions

with 3 Consecutive Years of Data, Based on the 3 Year Total, 2004-2006

Need Any Help?

 We've tried to make the surveys as intuitive as we can but we know there are still some challenges when you are first getting started.  We're here to help! Call us at 540-231-4941 or e-mail us at : faeis@vt.edu.

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