Institutional Research and Analysis includes those activities directed at empirically describing and evaluating the educational, administrative, and support functions of North Dakota State University. These activities include data gathering, analyses, evaluation, summarization, and reporting.

Examples of areas of reporting include:

1. Students data (admission, enrollment, academic outcomes, completions)

2. Organizational data (academic and non-academic data and reporting)

3. Institutional surveys (e.g., NSSE, Climate surveys)

4. Mandatory and optional external data reporting (e.g., IPEDS, Common Data Set)