Table 4: Gourman's Criteria for Evaluating Undergraduate Programs

1. Auspices, control and organization of the institution.

2. Total educational programs offered and degrees conferred (with additional attention to "subfields" available to students within a particular discipline).

3. Age (experience level) of the institution and of the individual discipline or program and division.

4. Faculty, including qualifications, experience, intellectual interests, attainments, and professional productivity (including research).

5. Students, including quality of scholastic work and records of graduate both in graduate study and in practice.

6. Basis of and requirements for admission of students (overall and by individual discipline).

7. Number of students enrolled (overall and for each discipline).

8. Curriculum and curricular content of the program of discipline and division.

9. Standards and quality of instruction (including teaching loads).

10. Quality of administration, including attitudes and policy toward teaching, research and scholarly production in each discipline, and administration research.

11. Quality and availability of non-departmental areas such as counseling and career placement services.

12. Quality of physical plant devoted to undergraduate, graduate and professional levels.

13. Finances, including budgets, investments, expenditures and sources of income for both public and private institutions.

14. Library, including number of volumes, appropriateness of materials to individual disciplines, and accessibility of materials.

15. Computer facility sufficient to support current research activities for both faculty and students.

16. Sufficient funding for research equipment and infrastructure.

17. Number of teaching and research assistantships.

18. Academic-athletic balance.