Capture your institution's unique campus structure in your UniForum data to better understand multi-campus support

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The primary benchmark of the UniForum program focuses on professional support services for onshore higher education operations to ensure robust comparisons amongst members. For universities with operations that extend beyond this scope, for example with overseas campuses, we can customise your UniForum collection to capture how your professional services are resourced to support other areas of the institution. 

UFAST can be used to collect additional information on what proportion of staff time and supplier spend goes towards supporting different parts of your institution, enabling reporting on the full picture of your university’s operating model. 

What can I learn from reporting on my multi-campus support model?

Two charts showing university cost benchmarking: a bar chart compares overall normalised operations cost for global vs local scenarios against benchmarks, and a dot plot compares global vs local transactional normalised cost by function against the Lower Quartile.
Two charts showing university cost benchmarking: a bar chart compares overall normalised operations cost for global vs local scenarios against benchmarks, and a dot plot compares global vs local transactional normalised cost by function against the Lower Quartile.
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How can my collections be configured to reflect my institution's operating model?

The functionality that captures multi-campus support in your UniForum data is flexible and can be adjusted to support use cases beyond local & overseas campuses. For example:

  • RMIT University uses the functionality to capture their Vocational Education & Training programs separately from their higher education operations
  • Tecnológico de Monterrey captures how multi-campus support is distributed across its central units, regional campuses, smaller / medium campuses and high school operations

If you would like to capture professional support beyond UniForum’s primary benchmarking scope or gain insight into more granular areas of your benchmarkable operations, we can work with you to set up your UniForum collection to generate the type of reporting you are looking for.