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The Student Success Board: from applied to completed, one term at a time.

A BICS sample Power BI board for colleges and school districts — enrolment and retention by program and term, course fill, DFW, financial aid and net tuition, advising caseloads, and budget vs actual by department. Every figure below is illustrative and recalculates with the filters.

Prepared for Provosts, deans and district leaders
September 2026
Board sample · Higher education & K-12

Term

College

Showing Fall 2025 · All colleges · 15 departments

Enrolment & retention · 12 terms

Headcount by term, with first-year retention

Enrolled headcountFirst-year retention (fall cohorts, right labels)

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Signature visual · student journey

Applied → Admitted → Enrolled → Persisted → Completed

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Course fill & student success

Fill rate by department, ranked · DFW alongside

Seats filled ÷ seats offered85% fill target

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Financial aid & net tuition

Gross tuition to net revenue

Net tuitionInstitutional aidExternal aid (Pell, state, scholarships)

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Advising

Students per advisor vs 300:1 target

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Budget vs actual · department heat-grid

Variance to budget by department and spend line

Under budgetOver budgetCells show variance %; last column is the department total

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Ask the data · AI layer (mock)

Natural-language questions over the same model

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