Appendix: Supply and Demand Report – Degree Production and Expected Degrees, 2016 to 2020 Tennessee’s annual Improving the Pipeline for Tennessee’s Workforce: Academic Supply for Occupational Demand Report, released in March 2022, offers key insights into occupational demand across Tennessee and the academic programs and initiatives seeking to meet that demand. This supplementary brief addresses requirements under § TCA 49-7-112(b)(1) describing degree production and expected degrees produced by public and private institutions in Tennessee. Within this brief, this degree production and expected degrees table will be referred to as Table 1. Table 1 highlights the latest five-year counts of undergraduate degrees produced by Title IV reporting institutions in the state of Tennessee.116 These historical data include all Tennessee institutions reporting to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). IPEDS is a federal dataset containing information about higher education institutions, including student demographics, program offerings, and completion data.117 Table 1 presents academic programs by their two-digit Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code.118 There is a distinction made between STEM and non-STEM related fields, with STEM programs differentiated in Table 1 by an asterisk, as the state of Tennessee promotes an increase in STEM related awards. THEC’s division of Academic Affairs defines STEM using the two-digit 2020 CIP codes listed below: 01 - Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields 03 - Natural Resources and Conservation 11 - Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services 14 - Engineering 15 - Engineering/Engineering-related Technologies/Technicians 26 - Biological and Biomedical Sciences 27 - Mathematics and Statistics 40 - Physical Sciences 51 – Health Professions This definition of STEM was adopted by the 2010-15 Performance Funding Taskforce in June 2010.119 The Health Professions CIP code was later added. STEM is defined differently depending upon the institution, for example, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has a broader definition that is meant to assist international students in obtaining a
For more information on the reporting requirements for IPEDS see here. Data are available here. 118 For more information on CIP see here. 119 For more information on THEC’s definition of STEM see here. 116 117
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