Institutional Effectiveness
What is Institutional Effectiveness?
The Office for Institutional Effectiveness exists to ensure appropriate systems are implemented to accomplish institutional and educational goals. It is our responsibility to continually seek improvement through prayer, asking relevant questions, performing consistent evaluations, and assisting administrators, educators, and leaders in implementing needed change.
Graduation Rate
Graduation rates are calculated upon students graduating the program within 150% of program length. (For example, students who enroll in a four year program have six years to graduate to be included in this rate.)
*Based on students who enrolled in Fall 2016.
Retention Rate
Retention rates calculate the percentage of students who enter college as freshmen and return the following year as sophomores.
*Based on 12 students in the 2022 freshmen class.
Placement Rate
Placement rates are the percentage of students who receive a job offer related to their education within three months of graduation. At our college, one hundred percent received theirs before graduation.
*Based on 23 class of 2023 graduates.
2022 Institute Outcomes
Institutional Goals
Academically Equipped.
Equipping students to continue their education at the next academic level.
Imparting abilities and passion for lifelong learning.
Professionally Equipped.
Preparing students to build the Kingdom of God in secular or ministerial occupations.
Spiritually
Mature.
Evidencing extensive knowledge of the Hebrew Scriptures and New Testament.
Demonstrating consistent practices of spiritual development.
Evidencing spiritual maturity.
Showing concern for using their education in service to God and others.
Global Conscious.
Embracing responsibility to participate in the Great Commission.
Developing the ability to clearly articulate biblical truths and concepts.
Concerned for the Poor and Marginalized.
Making consideration for the poor and marginalized through education, advocacy, or empowerment.
The Institute Provides Long-Term Success in Work and Life after College.
In 2014, Gallup and Purdue University performed a national survey to evaluate the correlation of people’s success and happiness within their jobs and lives to their experience with their alma mater. The study listed six claims that were believed to directly correlate with people’s long-term success at work and in life after college. The results indicate that it isn’t just where you go, but the quality of experience at the school you choose that demonstrates success after college. In 2018, the Institute for G.O.D. Int’l participated in the survey.
Results for the Gallup-Purdue Index are based on web surveys conducted Feb. 4 - Mar. 7 2014, with a random sample of approximately 1,557 respondents with an associate’s degree and 29,560 respondents with a bachelor’s degree or higher, aged 18 and older, with internet access, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Link to poll results.
Data collected for the Institute for G.O.D. Int’; represents 59% of all undergraduate alumni. Survey conducted in 2018 was anonymous.
Program Outcomes
Student learning outcomes are assessed and evaluated on a annual basis (links to an external site).
THEC - Annual Performance Reports
The following reports, published to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, detail demographic data, including graduation and placement rates. You can also view these reports on the THEC website.
Annual Performance Report, FY 2015-16
Annual Performance Report, FY 2016-17
Annual Performance Report, FY 2017-18
Annual Performance Report, FY 2018-19
Annual Performance Report, FY 2019-20
Annual Performance Report, FY 2020-21