Reports and Data by Topic Area
The reports below examine data from recent research projects conducted by the Center for the Study of Student Life. They may be based on a small sub-set of information from a large survey or national data set, or they may summarize a research project undertaken at The Ohio State University.
Please contact us at cssl@osu.edu to request an accessible version of any of our reports.
Topic Areas
Click on a topic area to be linked directly to reports about that topic, or scroll down to see all reports across all topic areas.
- Student Success and Outcomes
- Belonging and Inclusion
- Health and Wellness
- Student Involvement and Leadership
- Student Survey Best Practices
Student Success and Outcomes
2024-2025
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
- First-Generation Student Outcomes at Graduation: Graduation Survey
2019-2020
- Digital Flagship Initiative: Student Life Survey
2018-2019
- Career Readiness: Student Life Survey
- First Destinations: Graduation Survey
- Transfer and Campus Change Students
Belonging and Inclusion
2021-2022
- Student Organization Membership: Involvement and Belonging: Student Life Survey
- Parenting and Pregnant Students: Childcare and Parenting Strain: Student Life Survey
- Parenting and Pregnant Students: Sense of Belonging: Student Life Survey
2020-2021
- Military and Veteran Student Sense of Belonging: Wellness Assessment
- Involvement and Belonging: Student Life Survey
2019-2020
- Financial Experiences of First-Generation Students: Study on Collegiate Financial Wellness
2018-2019
Health and Wellness
2022-2023
- Sports Betting: Prevalence and Impact: Wellness Assessment
- An Examination of First-Year Student Wellness: Wellness Assessment
- SCFW 2023 Financial Wellness Comparison to 2020
- SCFW 2023 First-Generation Students
- SCFW 2023 Student Employment
- SCFW 2023 Student Loans and Paying for College
- SCFW 2023 Transfer and Campus Change Students
2021-2022
- Student Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Student Life Survey
- An Examination of the Nine Dimensions of Wellness: Wellness Assessment
- First-Generation Student Wellness: Wellness Assessment
- International Student Wellness: Wellness Assessment
- COVID-19 Pandemic Brief: Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership
- Alcohol and Cannabis Use among Ohio State Students: ACHA-NCHA III
2020-2021
- Examining Students’ Wellness and Sense of Belonging during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Wellness Assessment
2019-2020
- Financial Wellness of Students With Children: Study on Collegiate Financial Wellness
2018-2019
- A Look at the Nine Dimensions of Wellness: Wellness Assessment
- Comparing the Random Sample to Self-Selected Students: Wellness Assessment
- Third-Year Undergraduate Student Wellness: Wellness Assessment
- Graduate and Professional Student Wellness: Wellness Assessment
- Third-Year Students' Financial Habits: Study on Collegiate Financial Wellness
Student Involvement and Leadership
2023-2024
2022-2023
- 2023 Involvement and Belonging: Student Life Survey
2021-2022
- 2022 Involvement and Belonging: Student Life Survey
- Involvement and Belonging Trends: Student Life Survey
- Student Life Survey Research Brief: Survey Recruitment: Student Life Survey
- Graduate and Professional Programs: Student Life Survey
- Leadership Cohorts Report: Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership
- Student Views of Leadership: Multi-Instititional Study of Leadership
- Student Organization Membership: Involvement and Belonging: Student Life Survey
- Measures of Citizenship and Societal Change: Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership
- High-Impact Practices: Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership
- Leadership Self-Efficacy and Resilience: Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership
2019-2020
- Campus Traditions: Student Life Survey
- Leadership Education Needs Assessment: Autumn 2019 Report: LENA
- Involvement Trends by Class Year and Academic Career: Student Life Survey
- Involvement, Leadership and Student Outcomes at Graduation: Graduation Survey
2018-2019
- Leadership Education Needs Assessment: 2018-2019 Report: LENA
- Leadership Education Needs Assessment: 2018 Autumn Overall Report: LENA
- Student Philanthropy: Student Life Survey
Student Survey Best Practices
2023-2024
- Survey Incentives: Student Life Survey
2022-2023
- Graphics in Survey Recruitment: Residential Experience Survey
- Humor in Survey Recruitment: Graduation Survey
- Survey Incentives: Student Life Survey
2021-2022
- Survey Recruitment: Student Life Survey
2019-2020
- Survey Incentives: Student Life Survey
2018-2019
- Student Life Marketing: Student Life Survey