As the designated office of official data collection and reporting for Emory University, the IRE Office has among its main goals, the following:

Provide university administrators with information that supports institutional strategic planning, policy formation and decision making. Provide information and expertise in the areas of institutional assessment, academic program review, and strategic planning.

Coordinate data collection with schools and academic support units for the Provost's Annual Report.

Provide analytical and consulting services to university committees, schools, and academic departments on an as-needed basis.

Conduct periodic internal and external environmental scanning and identify future trends and needs. Compile descriptive profiles of students and faculty and maintain longitudinal and comparative databases of this information.

Generate analytical reports of student attrition, graduation rates, and graduate school destinations for undergraduates. Develop and maintain a core of outcome indicators at the program level.

Track data on degree completion, time-to-degree, and postgraduation employment for PhD programs at Emory and provide benchmarking analysis for these indicators.

Assist academic programs and academic support units with the evaluation of mentoring and tutoring programs. Perform analytical studies that examine the academic success of students who participate in mentoring sessions.

Coordinate the university's reporting requirements to Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and other external agencies. Coordinate the completion of various reports for the federal government including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), and respond to external ad hoc requests for information.

Design, administer, analyze and disseminate the results of regular surveys, including the entering-student survey, first college-year survey, senior survey, graduate programs exit survey, alumni survey, prospects survey, and survey of admitted and not enrolled students.

Compile, publish and disseminate the university's annual Academic Profile and the Selected Academic Highlights of faculty achievement.

Examine the competitiveness of Emory faculty compensation vis-à-vis peer universities and conduct periodic studies of faculty compensation equity.

Assist administrative offices with evaluating their operations.

Create and maintain relationships with professional associations and data exchange groups, and present research results at national conferences.