PES+ Economics
Understanding Program Economics
Learn How To Calculate Margins for Academic Programs
Gray’s PES+ Economics software calculates the economics of individual programs using direct variable economics so institutions can understand which programs produce margin, and how much. The model provides a detailed financial scorecard for each program and course, including revenue, direct instructional costs, contribution margin, and student and credit hour data.
Financial Ranking for Your Programs
- Detailed Program Scorecards
- Contribution Analysis
- Program Ranking Reports
- Summary Views and Analytics
PES+ Economics Essential
Everything you need for optimized economic program management.
Economic and Portfolio Analysis
Key Benefits:
- Review revenue, instructional cost, and margin by department, program, course and section
- Conduct a full portfolio analysis
- Get clear, immediate insight with program scorecards
- Evaluate cost analysis tables
Benchmarking
Key Benefits:
- View metrics on revenue, cost, and margins
- Compare results by department, program, course, and course level
- Evaluate aggregated totals and metrics per Student Credit Hour
- Adjust for Cost of Labor or Credits to Degree
- Create custom data tables to drill down on specific metrics or programs
- Download data to Excel for presentations or further analysis
PeS+ Market Reports
PES+ Economics Advanced
When you are ready to dive deeper for advanced economic insight, Gray offers additional tools and services to meet this need, including best-in-class predictive economic analytics.
With PES+ Economics Reports, you’ll receive:
- Reports that allow for a broader audience to utilize the PES+ Economics data (no user login required)
- Automatic delivery of rankings to your stakeholders
- Data at your fingertips (no programming required)
Program Management Dashboard Advanced
The Program Management Dashboard allows for:
- Integrated views of program Mission, Academic Standards, Markets, and Margins
- Customized inputs
- Quarterly check-ins to track progress and flag concerns
- Annual program assessments and comparisons to provide a portfolio-level view
- Comprehensive data readily available for program accreditors and regulators
PES+ Predict Margins Advanced
With Gray PES+ Predict Margins, you can:
- Evaluate the effects of program decisions on your institution’s bottom line
- Project how growing or closing programs will affect department and program economics
- Predict section enrollment, teaching loads, and costs, across all departments
- Test scenarios to guide decision-making and reach enrollment or financial goals