INTERNAL BALANCE
Institutional Goal:
Increase the number of Honours students as a proportion of undergraduate degree students.
Promote Carleton's identity as… a national leader in the study of public affairs and management and the study of high technology…
[by increasing enrolment in these programs as a proportion of total enrolment].
Commentary:
Enrolment in the B.A. (Hons.) increased in 2001 compared to 2000, both in absolute numbers and as a proportion of total
B.A. enrolment (54%). The same was true for the B.Sc. (Hons.) and the B.Math. (Hons.) which rose to 69% and 36% of
their respective degree programs.
Public Affairs and Management continued to pull ahead as the Faculty with the largest share of overall enrolment (37%).
The Faculty of Engineering and Design retained the same proportion of overall enrolment (21%). In terms of credits taught,
the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences remains the largest faculty with 37% of the total credits in 2000/01.
In Fall 2001, 3,778 (23%) of students were enrolled in high technology (ATOP) programs.
The ratio of undergraduate to graduate students increased slightly from 5.2:1 to 5.5:1 from the previous year.
Over the entire academic year, the ratio of (credits taught/5) : (FTEs enrolled) varies from 1.4 for the Faculty of Arts and
Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science to 0.7 for the Faculty of Public Affairs and Management and 0.6 for the Faculty
of Engineering and Design. This reflects the large amount of "service teaching" carried out by the former for the latter.
(Detailed full-time-equivalency measures for past years are available on the Office of Institutional Research web site at
www.carleton.ca/oirp - follow the link to Measures of Full-Time Equivalency (FTE) .)