Information to answer specific
questions is desired. How many sections of a specific course should be
offered? By what amount should tuition rates be increased to produce a target
amount of tuition income? Is attrition a problem at our institution? Are our
faculty salaries competitive with those paid by peer institutions? Are the
outcomes of our degree programs what the stated pig poses of the programs
suggest they should be? Institutional research designed to answer such
questions is a form of applied research