Admissions and Enrollment
Cohort outcome
Enrollment Yield Calculator
Show the share of admitted applicants who enroll and the remaining gap to an enrollment target.
Enter offers and enrollment
Yield follows offers, not applications
Admission rate describes offers from applications; yield describes enrollment from offers.
Keeping the stages separate prevents a funnel percentage from receiving the wrong denominator.
For a different unit of work, review the earlier offer stage.
Census timing changes the count
Deposited students may withdraw before enrollment, and late enrollment may occur.
Date the result and state the enrollment definition.
A separate planning question is whether to follow an enrolled cohort into the next period.
From inputs to result
Basis: Enrolled status should follow one census date and definition; deposits, registrations, and attendance may produce different counts.
Yield against an enrollment target
With 336 enrolled students from 1,200 admitted applicants, yield is 28%. Enrollment is 24 below a target of 360, which would require a 30% yield.
Reconcile the admission funnel
Preserve offered, accepted, deposited, registered, enrolled, and census counts when those stages are available. Yield can be calculated at several points, but each needs its own label.
When an admitted applicant changes intake or campus, follow the reporting rule before counting the student as enrolled from the original offer pool.
Compare target gaps with housing, staffing, course, and aid capacity; a higher yield is not automatically desirable beyond operational limits.
Use the official census point for the final yield, and label deposits or registrations as interim indicators. Early funnel stages can include applicants who later defer, cancel, or fail to enroll.
For multiple campuses or programs, assign each enrollee to the same offer population used in the denominator. Cross-offers and program changes otherwise create double counting.
Target shortfall is an operational planning figure, not a forecast of additional offers. Estimating offers requires a defensible marginal-yield assumption and consideration of capacity.
When applicants hold multiple offers from the same institution, decide whether yield is reported by person, offer, or program. The selected unit must remain consistent from offers through census enrollment or the percentage can exceed its intended meaning.
Questions about the result
Should deposits count as enrollment?
Only when the reporting definition treats them as enrolled.
Can yield exceed 100%?
It should not when enrolled students come from the entered admitted pool.
Why compare with target yield?
It shows the enrollment share needed from the same number of offers.
Use one offer and census population
- Use admitted and enrolled counts from one intake.
- Choose the official enrollment status.
- Compare with the enrollment target.
- Preserve the census date.