The National Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity (Delaware Cost Study) is a benchmarking project and data sharing consortia among four-year colleges and universities with over 200 institutions participating annually.
Since 1996, over 600 institutions have participated, and over the past two decades, the Delaware Cost Study has become the "tool of choice" for comparative analysis of faculty teaching loads, direct instructional costs, and separately budgeted scholarly activity, within academic disciplines.
Currently, the Cost Study is used major data and state agencies including:
Association of American Universities Data Exchange (AAUDE)
Southern Universities Group (SUG)
– University of North Carolina (UNC) System
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PaSSHE)
University of Missouri System
University of Nebraska System
Connecticut State University System (CSUS)
City University of New York (CUNY) System
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