OPES Data Report 2025

Office of Prestigious External Scholarships

2025

OPES 2025 IN NUMBERS

150

418

Number of Students Advised

Number of Advising Meetings

92 69

Number of Applications Submitted

234.5

427

Number of Hours Spent Advising

Number of Hours Spent Non-Advising

64

Unique Student Names to Submit an Application

58 Number of Majors Represented by Advisees

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OPES 2024 TO 2025 COMPARATIVE STATISTICS

3.85%

6.20%

Increase in Number of Students Advised

Increase in Number of Advising Meetings

10.38%

12.20%

Increase in Number of Hours Spent Advising

Increase in Number of Applications Submitted

4.92% Increase in Number of Unique Student Names that Submitted Applications

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Total Number of Scholarship Recipients/Finalists

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ADVISING HOURS 2025 ACCE Doctoral Landscape Award Churchill

Astronaut

Critical Language Scholarship

DAAD GRAD

Demmer

Fulbright Summer UK Goldwater

JET

Knight Hennessy NEW Leadership MS PPLC Harvard

DAAD RISE

DOD SMART Gates Cambridge

Fulbright Gilman

Jump Trading Fellowship Lafayette

NOAA Hollings Project Go!

Rhodes

Boren

Marshall NSF GRFP

Project Horseshoe Truman

PPIA Rales

Udall

35

30

25

20

15

10

5

Au gu st Se pt em be r O ct ob er N ov em be D r ec em be r

Ju ly

Ju ne

M ay

A pr il

Ja nu ar y Fe bu ar y M ar ch

0

3

TOTAL HOURS 2025 (ADVISING AND NON-ADVISING) ACCE Doctoral Landscape Award CLS

DAAD RISE

DAAD GRAD

Fulbright

Fulbright UK SI

Gilman

Goldwater

Knight-Hennessy

Demmer

JET

McCall MacBain

Project Go! Truman

Churchill DOD Smart Gaither

Jump Trading Fellowship

NOAA Hollings

Rhodes

Boren

Gates Cambridge

Lafayette

NEW Leadership MS PPLC Harvard

Astronaut

Marshall

NSF GRFP

PPIA

Project Horseshoe

Rales

Udall

Voyager

80

60

40

20

Au gu st Se pt em be r O ct ob er N ov em be r D ec em be r

Ju ly

Ju ne

M ay

A pr il

M ar ch

Ja nu ar y Fe br ua ry

0

4

TIME SPENT ADVISING VS. OTHER ACTIVITIES Advising

Presidential

Non-Advising

Au gu st Se pt em be r O ct ob er N ov em be D r ec em be r

Ju ly

Ju ne

M ay

A pr il

Ja nu ar y Fe br ua ry M ar ch

120 100 80 60 40 20 0

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STUDENTS ADVISED BY COLLEGE 50 40 30 20 10

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College of Architecture, Art, and Design 2.90% College of Business 7.10%

College of Arts & Sciences 33.60%

College of Agriculture & Life Sciences 17.90%

Bagley College of Engineering 35.00% 5

Major

#of Students Advised with this Major

Accounting

2

Higher Ed Leadership

1

Aerospace Engineering

6

History

2

Animal & Dairy Science

3

Industrial Engineering

3

Anthropology

2

Interior Design

1

Architecture

3

Interdisciplinary Studies

1

Asian Studies

2

International Business

2

Biochemistry

7

Japanese

2

Biological Sciences

6

Mathematics

3

Biomedical Engineering

11

Mechanical Engineering

6

Business Administration

1

Meteorology

1

Business Economics

1

Microbiology

6

Business Office Technology

2

2

Chemical Engineering

6

Natural Resource & Environmental Conservation

Chemistry

1

Philosophy

3

Civil Engineering

1

Physics

1

Communication

2

Political Science

9

Computer Engineering

2

Psychology

5

Computer Science

5

Religion

1

Data Science

2

Sociology

2

Economics

5

Software Engineering

1

Educational Psycology

1

Supply Chain

1

Electrical Engineering

6

Sustainable Bioproducts

1

English

4

Wildlife Fisheries & Aquaculture

3

Environmental Science in Agriculture Systems

1

Undeclared

2

Foreign Language

2

French

1

Finance

1

NUMBER OF MAJORS REPRESENTED: 58 5

ADVISING HOUR PERCENTAGE

BY SCHOLARSHIP WHOLE YEAR

Truman 9% SMART 0.3%

Udall 3.4%

Rhodes 7.9%

Astronaut 9% Boren 5.3% Churchill 2.4% CLS 4.8%

Project Go! 0.3% PPIA 2.6%

DOD Smart 0.5%

Marshall 6.9% Lafayette 0.5% Knight-Hennessey 3.2%

Fulbright Awards 18.5%

Goldwater 13.2%

Fulbright U.K. Summer Institute 5.8%

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Truman 13%

Fulbright Awards 5.6% Goldwater 15.7%

Astronaut 29.8%

Other 34%

CLS 8.5%

MARCH

General 4.3%

APRIL

Boren 28.7%

Udall 10.2%

JANUARY

Other 7.4%

FEBRUARY

ADVISING HOUR PERCENTAGE

BY SCHOLARSHIP - BY MONTH Other 5.8%

Udall 20.3%

Fulbright Awards 8.7%

General 19.7%

Other 16.4%

Rhodes 18%

Rhodes 18.2%

Goldwater 13.1%

Fulbright 11.4% Goldwater 5%

JUNE

MAY

Fulbright 34.1%

Truman 9.1%

Astronaut 6.6% Fulbright Awards 26.2%

Fulbright U.K. SI 14.9%

Other 38.6%

Astronaut 56.5%

Marshall 6.8%

PPLC 74.9%

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CLS 8.5%

NSF GRFP 4.3%

JULY

Marshall 29.8%

Fulbright Awards 21.9%

PPIA 3.1% Mashall 6.3%

Fulbright U.K. SI 9.4%

General 13.7% Udall 5.5%

CLS 13.7% DAAD Rise 8.2%

Truman 13.7% Fulbright Awards 11% Rhodes 11%

JET Goldwater 2.7% 15.1%

OCTOBER

Rhodes 14.1%

NOVEMBER

CLS 7.8%

SEPTEMBER

Astronaut 1.6%

Truman 7.8%

DECEMBER

Knight-Hennessy 44.7%

AUGUST

ADVISING HOUR PERCENTAGE

BY SCHOLARSHIP - BY MONTH General 9% Truman 6.7%

CLS 4.5%

NSF GRFP 2.2%

Fulbright Awards 28.1%

Marshall 15.7% Goldwater 13.5%

General Boren 3% 9.7% DAAD Grad Truman 4.5% 7.5% Project Horseshoe 3%

Fulbright Awards 10.4%

PPIA 7.5% Marshall 1.5%

Fulbright U.K. SI 3%

Knight-Hennessy 5.2%

Rhodes 5.8%

Goldwater 20.9%

Fulbright U.K. SI 7.7%

Truman 28.8% Goldwater 46.2%

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ADVISEE YEAR BREAKDOWN

First-Year Senior

Sophomore

Junior

Graduate

Graduate 2.9%

Alum

First-Year 8.8%

Sophomore 16.4%

Senior 33.5%

Junior 35.7% 10

Satisfaction Survey Data The following data was taken from a Qualtrics survey sent to all students who applied for a scholarship in the Fall of 2025. Of these students, there were 8 respondents.

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COMMENTS FROM STUDENTS

“You guys have done an extraordinary job with guiding students who want to grow and take on chances with different scholarships.”

Y'all are great!

Dr. Hoffman does not have enough time. it may be more efficient to do one early meeting with Dr. Hoffman, then rely on a GA, undergrad research advisor, or scholar alum to help with the nuts and bolts, then work with Dr. Hoffman again once there is a good basis for the application.

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DATA: STUDENT SATISFACTION Very Good Experience Good Experience Neutral Bad Experience Very Bad Experience 0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

PERCENT OF STUDENTS WHO ENGAGED IN SELFREFLECTION

PERCENT OF STUDENTS RECEIVED HELPFUL FEEDBACK FROM OPES

PERCENT OF STUDENTS WHO INCREASED THEIR CONFIDENCE IN COMMUNICATING THEIR RESEARCH OR PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVES

100%

100%

100%

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2025 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS Name

Major

Scholarship

Hays Romano

Political Science

Fulbright UK Summer Institute

Madeline Green

Anthropology

Critical Language Scholarship Spark

Alexis Ellison

Accounting

Critical Language Scholarship

Claire Green

Biochemistry

Truman

Claire Green

Biochemistry

Udall

Jake Kasitz

Meteorology

NOAA Hollings

Brittin Perdue

Electrical Engineering

Astronaut Scholarship

Spencer Lile

Biomedical Engineering

Astronaut Scholarship

Alijah Jones

Political Science

Fulbright Awards ETA

Lily Langstaff

Wildlife Fisheries Aquaculture

Fulbright Awards Study/Research

Alyssa Williams

Biochemistry

Fulbright Awards Study/Research

Julian Dedeaux

Business Administration

Fulbright Awards ETA

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2025 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS Name

Major

Scholarship

Surabhi Gupta

Microbiology

DAAD Grad

Nyla Jones

Natural Resource and Enviromental Conservation

PPIA Junior Summer Institute

Claire Green

Biochemistry

Rhodes Finalist

Christopher Jolivette

English

Rhodes Finalist

Tafada Wright

Communication

Rhodes Finalist

Brittin Perdue

Electrical Engineering

Goldwater

Spencer Lile

Biomedical Engineering

Goldwater

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