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PhD, MS, Honors Thesis, and Postdoc Advising Report

Use this dashboard to view historical thesis (PhD, MS, Honors) and/or current advising (Postdoc, PhD) advising for CECS faculty [Developed by Ava Nafasi – Fall 2024].

 

US News and World Report Historical Rankings for Colleges of Engineering

Use this dashboard to learn how CECS compares with other US colleges of engineering in terms or overall rank or by category  [Developed by Thomas Tibbets – Fall 2022].

CECS Graduate Contracts

Use this dashboard to view historical and/or current graduate contracts by stage, department, and academic term  [Developed by Maria Contractor – Fall 2024].

CECS Graduate Program Feeders

Use this dashboard to view from where admitted, declined, accepted, and matriculated CECS graduate students originate in terms of prior academic institution, country, US state, etc. [Developed by Elizabeth Barnum – Fall 2024]

 

CECS Graduate Tuition Report

Use the report to view tuition and fee revenue generated annually and by academic term by graduate program [Developed by Thomas Tibbets – Summer 2023]

Historical DFW Rates and UTA ULA Assignments for the CECS Undergraduate Courses

Use this dashboard to view how UTAs and ULAs have been assigned to CECS undergraduate courses since 2020.

PhD Publications

Use this dashboard to view historical publications of graduating PhD students [Developed by Ava Nafasi, Elizabeth Barnum, and Maria Contractor – Fall 2024].

Graduate Retention Dashboard

Use this dashboard to view historical graduate retention rates of students [Developed by Ava Nafasi, Summer 2025)

ASEE Rankings

Use this dashboard to view historical ASEE Rankings

Competition Dashboard

Use this dashboard to track and analyze the statistics of students who applied to UCF but decided to go to a different university. [Developed by Ava Nafasi, Fall 2025)


Consistent with the UCF and CECS strategic plans, CECS Graduate Programs has established targets to achieve by 2033:

Primary Goals

  • 3-year MS Grad Rate – 65% 
  • 6-year PhD Grad Rate – 60%
  • Number of Postdocs – 167
  • PhD graduates per year – Top 10 Public (based on ASEE data)
  • MS graduates per year – Top 10 Public (based on ASEE data) 
  • Number of Graduate Students (MS-GC/PhD) – 2,500/1,500 

Secondary Goals

  • PhD to Faculty Ratio – 5-to-1
  • Fraction of non-FL resident MS students – 50%
  • Fraction of PhD graduates publishing articles – 80%
  • Connections to international (Number of Programs)
  • Number of externally funded fellowship students (e.g., Fulbright, NSF, DoD, SMART, etc.) – 1 per faculty

To access this page, please contact either Dr. Ali P. Gordon (apg@ucf.edu) or Ms. Tracey Ziebro (tracey.ziebro@ucf.edu). To provide updated information to be included in any of the above reports, please contact Ms. Ava Nafisi (ava.nafisi@ucf.edu)