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Data Analytics


What is Data Analytics?

Data Analytics

Data analytics at ZU uses advanced techniques to assist university leaders, faculty, and staff in making informed data-driven decisions. The goal is to improve strategic planning by leveraging data insights.

Key Features of Data Analytics at ZU

  • Intuitive Dashboards: Interactive dashboards provide data visualizations for trends and insights, including enrollment, cohort analysis, and graduation rates.

  • Self-Service Data Consumption: Empowering users to generate their own reports without relying on IT support.

  • Predictive Analytics: Utilizing machine learning and AI to forecast trends and identify at-risk students.

  • Centralized Data: Ensuring all data is accessible from one platform.

  • Data Democratization: Making data accessible to all employees and stakeholders, based on their roles.

DASS Dashboards

The DASS dashboard provides real-time data visualizations to support decision-making.

It includes:

  • Enrollment Dashboard: Analysis of enrollment trends, including new and continuing enrollment by program, gender, nationality, and campus.

  • Cohort Life Cycle Summary: Analysis of a specific cohort, including key performance indicators such as graduation and attrition rates.

  • Attrition Rate Dashboard: Analysis of attrition trends by campus and program.

  • Grade Distribution Dashboard: Provides grade distribution statistics, overall and by college.

  • Just-in-Time Graduation Dashboard: Analysis of graduation rates, including the number of years students take to graduate.

  • College Transfer Rate Dashboard: Analysis of student transfer rates between colleges.

  • Enrollment by Scores Dashboard: Provides information on student performance based on emsat math and english scores.

  • Faculty Workload Dashboard: Provides administrators with an overview of faculty instructional and non-instructional load distribution.

Benefits of Data Analytics at ZU

  • Enables data tracking along key metrics.

  • Supports implementation and monitoring of ZU Strategy progress through dedicated Strategic KPI dashboards.

  • Facilitates colleges and academic administration to analyze enrollments using several dimensions.

  • Provides a comprehensive 360-degree organizational view.

  • Speeds up data processing and minimizes the need for manual data handling.

  • Helps to forecast trends, make data-driven decisions, and improve strategic planning.