Advising data

2023-2024 advising data

Notes:

• Data year is May 16, 2023, to May 15, 2024.
• All information is subject to correction and updating. Percentages might not sum to 100 due to rounding.
• Data tables include enrollment data from university data commons to give context to advising counts.

Advising main topics by college and advisee type:

• View 2023-2024 CPD advising data (pdf) (updated 5/30/24) which includes tables of advising main topic for:
  • All advisees (students, alumni, and others).
  • Undergraduate students by college and total university.
  • Graduate students by college and total university.
  • Alumni by college and total university.

Undergraduate advising contacts main topic summary:

• 45% seeking experience during college.
• 17% seeking post-graduation employment.
• 16% Health Professions Advising (HPA).
• 15% career-major exploration.
• 4% planning for continuing education other than health professions.
• 3% not indicated by advisor.

2022-2023 advising data

Notes:

• Data year is May 16, 2022, to May 15, 2023.
• All information is subject to correction and updating. Percentages might not sum to 100 due to rounding.
• Data tables include enrollment data from university data commons to give context to advising counts.

Advising main topics by college and advisee type:

• View 2022-2023 CPD advising data (pdf) (updated 5/28/23) which includes tables of advising main topic for:
  • All advisees (students, alumni, and others).
  • Undergraduate students by college and total university.
  • Graduate students by college and total university.
  • Alumni by college and total university.

Undergraduate advising contacts main topic summary:

• 48% seeking experience during college.
• 14% seeking post-graduation employment.
• 12% Health Professions Advising (HPA).
• 14% career-major exploration.
• 5% planning for continuing education other than health professions.
• 8% not known.

Undergraduate advising contacts percentages by college and enrollment:

• Shown in bar graph image and table format below.

2021-2022 advising data

Notes:

• Data year is May 16, 2021, to May 15, 2022.
• Data tables include enrollment data from university data commons to give context to advising counts.
• All information is subject to correction and updating.

Advising main topics by college and advisee type:

• View 2021-2022 CPD advising data (pdf) (updated 5/26/22) which includes tables of advising main topic for:
  • All advisees (students, alumni, and others).
  • Undergraduate students by college and total university.
  • Graduate students by college and total university.
  • Alumni by college and total university.

Undergraduate advising contacts main topic summary:

• 55% seeking experience during college.
• 12% seeking post-graduation employment.
• 11% Health Professions Advising (HPA).
• 7% career-major exploration.
• 5% planning for continuing education other than health professions.
• 10% not known.

2020-2021 advising data

Notes:

• Data year is May 16, 2020, to May 15, 2021.
• Data tables include enrollment data (from university data commons) to give context to advising counts.

Advising main topics by college and advisee type:

• View 2020-2021 CPD advising of undergraduate students by college and main topic (pdf).
• View 2020-2021 CPD advising of graduate students by college and main topic (pdf).

Main advising topics highlights:

• Undergraduate students:
  • 48% seeking experience.
  • 22% post-graduation employment.
• Graduate students:
  • 69% seeking post-graduation employment.
  • 26% seeking experience.

CPD advising by level and colleges | 2022-2023 and prior:

• View multi-year CPD advising numbers (pdf) by undergrad, graduate and professional, and combined, by colleges
• Includes enrollment numbers from university data commons for context.

CPD advising of undergraduates by main topic | six years, 2022-2023 and prior:

Seeking experience comprises half or more of CPD undergraduate advising contacts.

• View chart multi-year undergraduate advising contact percentages by main topic (pdf).
• Highlights:
  • 48-56% seeking experience.
  • 7-14% exploring self, careers and majors.
  • 12-22% seeking post-graduation employment.
  • 11-18% Health Professions Advising (HPA): preparing for admission to professional school for a health career such as medicine, dentistry and other health professions.
  • 3-5% planning for continuing education other than health professions.

Data in bar chart below also shown in table above.

Undergraduate advising and enrollment percentages by college

• Virginia Tech undergraduate enrollment is not distributed equally by college.
• View table for seven years, 2023-2024 and prior, undergraduate enrollment and advising contact percentages by college (pdf).

Data in single-year image charts below viewable in multi-year table format.

Undergraduate and graduate-professional students as percentages of Virginia Tech enrollment and CPD student advising contacts

• View data tables, five years, 2022-2023 and prior, undergraduate and graduate+professional students:
  • Percentages only, enrollment and CPD advising (pdf).
  • Enrollment counts and numbers of individuals advised, with percentages of enrollment (pdf).
• Graduate students have increased as percentage of Virginia Tech enrollment, from 15% in 2018-2019, to 20% in 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.
• Undergraduate students represent a slightly higher percentage of CPD student advisees as compared to their percentage of Virginia Tech enrollment.
• Note these are percentages of enrolled student advisees, and therefore do not include alumni because they are not enrolled.
• Each year we advise some alumni, and a small number of individuals who are neither students nor alumni.
  In 2021-2022, 7% of all advisees were not currently-enrolled students.
  In 2022-2023, 11% of advisees were alumni.