This Yes/No checkbox will be used in IPEDS Fall Enrollments reporting. All students with a major that has the Stand-Alone Grad Program checkbox selected on the CIP Definition window will have the Stand-Alone Grade Program selected when you perform the capture on the Student Data tab of the IPEDS Reporting window.
The Stand-Alone Graduate Program is used to calculate your Student-to-Faculty Ratio if any of your students have majors or certifications that have a CIP Code that you have flagged as a Stand-Alone Graduate Program.
The term "stand-alone graduate or professional programs" used on the Part F worksheet is defined as graduate or professional programs, such as medicine, law, veterinary, dentistry, social work, or public health, in which faculty teach virtually only graduate-level students (also referred to as "independent" programs). Student and instructional staff counts will be adjusted for stand-alone graduate or professional programs to allow the ratio to come closer to an undergraduate program Student-to-Faculty Ratio without overburdening institutions with reporting detail on the level of instruction taught by each instructor.