The NACUBO Benchmarking Tool is a complimentary service available to all current, regular NACUBO members that participated in the 2007 Tuition Discounting Study (TDS), 2008 NACUBO Endowment Study (NES), or 2009 Student Financial Services (SFS) survey.

If you think you think your institution participated in one or more of these studies but you cannot access the tool, please contact the NACUBO research staff at nacubo.research@nacubo.org.

The NACUBO Benchmarking Tool follows an "enterprise" model, which allows all staff at each participating institution access to the tool. NACUBO will formally announce the availability of data in the tool to your institution’s primary representative to NACUBO and any contact person specific to the NACUBO Tuition Discounting Study, NACUBO Endowment Study, or Student Financial Services survey to ensure that participating institutions are aware of the tool’s availability.

Data collection for the NACUBO Endowment Study and NACUBO Tuition Discounting Survey occurs in the fall of each year. The Student Financial Services survey is launched in the early spring. If you would like to participate in one or more of these surveys, please contact person the NACUBO research staff at nacubo.research@nacubo.org.

To login to the tool, follow the instructions below:

1. Visit "My NACUBO" on the NACUBO website. You will find the "My NACUBO" link on the right hand sidebar on the NACUBO website homepage.
2. At the login screen, enter your business e-mail address and password for "My NACUBO". If this is the first time logging into "My NACUBO", or if you have forgotten your password, enter your business e-mail address and click "forgot your password" and it will be emailed to you. If you would like to change your password, you can do so once you are logged in. At the top of the left hand sidebar, click on "Reset Password."
3. Once logged in to "My NACUBO", scroll down the page and click on NACUBO Online Benchmarking Tool located under Online Research. If your institution participated in the 2007 TDS, the 2008 NES, or 2009 SFS, the NACUBO Benchmarking Tool will be available to you.

Yes. A tutorial is available once you have logged into the tool. After logging into the tool, click on the "Getting Started" tab on the top menu bar to view the tutorial.

If you would like to see the demonstration before logging into the tool, or if you do not have access to the tool but are interested in seeing a demonstration, you can also access the tutorial from the NACUBO Benchmarking Tool main webpage.

The tool is organized into two different report types: Summary Reports and Peer Group Based Reports. The Summary Reports contain tables allow you to view the aggregate averages based on all study participants for a particular measure. The Peer Group Based reports allow you to customize reports based on the unique peer group you have defined for your institution.

For the tuition discounting data set, a minimum of five institutions is required for your peer group and a limited number of peer groups are permitted. Once you select your peer group, you will not be able to change it. Though these two restrictions can be limiting, they were put in place in order to protect the confidentiality of your and your peers’ tuition discounting data. If you have questions related to your peer group, please contact NACUBO research staff at nacubo.research@nacubo.org.

Please note that because the NACUBO Benchmarking Tool follows an "enterprise" model that allows all staff at your institution access to the tool, it is important that you coordinate with the appropriate people on your campus about defining your institution’s peer groups.

If your institution did not participate in a particular year of the NACUBO Endowment Study or NACUBO Tuition Discounting Study, then no data will be shown for your institution.

Yes. Only your institution will be permitted to view your individual institution data. Reports are generated in the aggregate for peer group comparisons.

NACUBO anticipates that the tool will eventually include data from other financial-related surveys. Plans for future expansion are currently on-going. If you have ideas you would like to share about future datasets you would like to see in the tool, please send your thoughts to the NACUBO research staff at nacubo.research@nacubo.org.

If you need further assistance with the NACUBO Online Benchmarking Tool, please contact NACUBO research staff at nacubo.research@nacubo.org.