Texas Administrative Code
Title 19 - EDUCATION
Part 1 - TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD
Chapter 4 - RULES APPLYING TO ALL PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN TEXAS
Subchapter R - REVIEW OF LOW-PRODUCING DEGREE PROGRAMS
Section 4.287 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 19 TX Admin Code § 4.287

Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025

The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) Board--The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

(2) Degree or certificate program--Any grouping of subject matter courses which, when satisfactorily completed by a student, will entitle the student to receive a degree or certificate from an institution of higher education.

(3) Institution of higher education or institution--Any public technical institute, public junior college, public senior college or university, medical or dental unit, or other agency of higher education as defined in Texas Education Code, § 61.003.

(4) Low-Producing Degree Programs--Degree programs that do not meet the following minimum standards for degrees awarded in the program:

(A) For career technical certificates, associate and bachelor's programs, an average of five degrees awarded per academic year, to total not fewer than twenty-five degrees awarded for any five-year period;

(B) For master's programs, an average of three degrees awarded per academic year, to total not fewer than fifteen degrees awarded for any five-year period; and

(C) For doctoral and special professional degrees, an average of two degrees awarded per academic year, to total not fewer than ten degrees awarded for any five-year period.

(5) Permanent Exemption--Exemption for degree programs which removes them from the list of low-producing degree programs indefinitely.

(6) Related Degree Program--A degree program for which an institution may use common faculty and other resources.

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