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Short story:
- FTE is a measure of instructional activity. It utilizes the number of students in a course section and the clock hours for the course. The calculation is: (# of students x clock hours) / 510.
- Headcount is the unique count of students. Headcount is used when we want to know how many unique students are enrolled at the college and/or over a specific period of time.
- Enrollment is a count of the number of sections students have taken. Each student is counted for every class they are enrolled in. Enrollment is sometimes called "Duplicated Headcount".
Long story:
IR developed a presentation with accompanying handout to explain the differences between FTE, Headcount, and Enrollment and how these metrics interact with one another. See attached!