Gary Stocker walks through the 2025 College Majors Completions tool, comparing Gannon University and Ursuline College. Gannon completes around 1,000 bachelor's degrees yearly in biology, sports kinesiology, and business, while Ursuline finishes under 200 with strength in psychology and social work. The tool helps colleges spot which majors to grow or cut.
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And we started showing this a couple weeks ago, and it's the 2025 College Majors Completions app. So what we have, and this is the, this is the working version, the actual version will be out here shortly, this takes all public and private colleges in the country and compares their associate, master, bachelor's, and master's degree completions. So you can see I brought up both Gannon and Ursuline on below, and let's set up for initially for bachelor's. So we can see the number of bachelor's degrees that Gannon has awarded over the last 4 reported years, up about 1,000, and the same numbers for Ursuline. Well, that's fine, but let's drill down because we've got 2 colleges merging, Matt. Let's look briefly at where they're strong in academic and majors and completions and where they're not so strong. And you can see again, if we're going to pick out a couple, they're strong in biology, um, they're strong in sports kinesiology— that's a nice little niche— and some decent numbers but not great numbers in some of these others—respiratory, psych, maybe criminal justice, maybe business administration. These are students who've graduated with that major from Gannon in those reported years, and you can see the total numbers over the last 4 reported years over on the far right-hand side. Let's do the same thing for Ursuline. And again, when you look at the Ursuline numbers—I've expanded it right here—the numbers are much smaller. Gannon had about 1,000 Ursuline's not quite at 200. And as you look across the board, you know, no real consistent strength with any significant numbers. Psychology is somewhat strong by comparison inside of Ursuline. Social Work somewhat strong, but even that has dropped off a little bit from already small numbers. So here's, here's a tool you can use if you're at Gannon, if you're at Ursuline, if you're anywhere else, and you're looking at majors to cut. Or majors to add at the bachelor level. Let's do the same thing, Matt, briefly for the master's. And again, now we're looking at graduate level completions for curriculum. Gannon clearly doing something well here. Business admin, they probably have an MBA program. PA, physician assistant. Again, Gannon just doing so many things so well. It's always good to see that. Maybe Ursuline, on the other hand, again, not going to be surprised. They've got a decent number, but not great for educational admissions. Administration. And again, none of this should surprise the viewers. Gannon is strong across on the financial side. Gannon is strong by comparison on the completion side for majors.