Strategic Peers

The Institutional Effectiveness Council steering committee examined a broad list of public, land-grant institutions with categorizations related to AAU, Medical or Veterinary Medicine, Carnegie classifications, and a host of metrics that could be sorted for review.

The steering committee originally developed a final set for peer benchmark comparison on the Strategic Plan 2014-19 to represent Public Land Grant institutions that were Carnegie Very High Research Institutions (under the 2018 Basic Classification), have a veterinary school, may or may not have a medical school, may or may not be AAU members, are within 50% above or below WSU’s enrollment size, and are within 100% above or below WSU’s research and development expenditures.