Glossary/Data Dictionaries

CDS Definition: The method by which an institution structures most of its courses for the academic year.

UMHB Definition: A 12-month period that begins on January 1 and ends on December 31.

IPEDS Definition: A six-digit code in the form xx.xxxx that identifies instructional program specialties within educational institutions.

https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/browse.aspx?y=55

IPEDS Definition: Education that uses one or more technologies to deliver instruction to students who are separated from the instructor and to support regular and substantive interaction between the students and the instructor synchronously or asynchronously. Technologies used for instruction may include the following: Internet, one-way and two-way transmissions through open broadcasts, closed circuit, cable, microwave, broadband lines, fiber optics, satellite or wireless communication devices; audio conferencing; and video cassette, DVDs, and CD-ROMs, if the cassette, DVDs, and CD-ROMs are used in a course in conjunction with the technologies listed above.

THECB Definition: The formal educational process that occurs when students and instructors are not in the same physical setting for the majority (more than 50 percent) of instruction. Distance education can include courses and programs offered online, off-campus face-to-face, and electronic-to-groups.

CDS Definition: An option for earning course credit at off-campus locations via cable television, internet, satellite classes, videotapes, correspondence courses, or other means.

IPEDS Definition: A course in which the instructional content is delivered exclusively via distance education. Requirements for coming to campus for orientation, testing, or academic support services do not exclude a course from being classified as distance education.

IPEDS Definition: A program for which all the required coursework for program completion is able to be completed via distance education courses.

UMHB Definition: A 12-month period that begins June 1 through May 31 of the following year.

IPEDS Definition: The amount of tuition and required fees covering a full academic year most frequently charged to students. These values represent what a typical student would be charged and may not be the same for all students at an institution. If tuition is charged on a per-credit-hour basis, the average full-time credit hour load for an entire academic year is used to estimate average tuition. Required fees include all fixed sum charges that are required of such a large proportion of all students that the student who does not pay the charges is an exception.