{"id":9,"date":"2024-09-06T13:47:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T13:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-11-01T03:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T03:49:12","slug":"target-population","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/target-population\/","title":{"rendered":"NSSE Target Population"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NSSE is designed to capture the experiences of&nbsp;all<strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>bachelor&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>degree-seeking<\/em>&nbsp;<em>students<\/em>&nbsp;classified as first-year students or graduating seniors,&nbsp;<strong>not&nbsp;<\/strong>only full-time students in the traditional 18- to 24-year-old age range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First-Year Students and Seniors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-compact-list\">\n<li>Traditional age students and adult learners<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Full-time and part-time students<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commuters and on-campus residents<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Distance education and online students<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Students from all campuses and institutions sharing the same IPEDS number&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nsse.indiana.edu\/nsse\/administering-nsse\/population-file\/index.html\">Additional details..<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2026\/09\/population_dist_09212026-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Pie chart composed of people\" class=\"wp-image-217\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.1990730273569976;width:273px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2026\/09\/population_dist_09212026-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2026\/09\/population_dist_09212026-300x250.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2026\/09\/population_dist_09212026-1024x854.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2026\/09\/population_dist_09212026-768x640.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2026\/09\/population_dist_09212026-1536x1280.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2026\/09\/population_dist_09212026-2048x1707.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSSE is designed to capture the experiences of&nbsp;all&nbsp;bachelor&#8217;s&nbsp;degree-seeking&nbsp;students&nbsp;classified as first-year students or graduating seniors,&nbsp;not&nbsp;only full-time students in the traditional 18- to 24-year-old age range. First-Year Students and Seniors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/nsse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}