Student Program/Plan Guide

The student program/plan stack is created by the PeopleSoft Admissions

matriculation process. The student program/plan stack first becomes "Active" when
a Program Action of "MATR" (matriculation) is inserted.

A student can have multiple program/plan stacks. For each academic career, a
student's program/plan stack is grouped by Student Career Number. Each Student
Career Number should be recognized as an instance of when a student was
admitted and then matriculated into an Academic Program.

Use the Student Program/Plan component to view this stack.

Records and Enrollment>Career and Program Information>Student Program/Plan

PERSON

Academic Structure
ACADEMIC
CAREER

STUDENT ACADEMIC DEGREE

TERMS PROGRAM

CLASS
ENROLLMENTS

ACADEMIC
PLAN

TRANSFER OTHER TEST ACADEMIC

CREDIT CREDIT CREDIT SUBPLAN

1. Person (ID) Each time a new member joins the Campus Community, PeopleSoft
automatically assigns him/her a unique ID number. This ID will always identify
this person, and each Campus Community member will have one ID. Use the
ID to most effectively search for students in PeopleSoft.

You can also use Search/Match to find any ID where you do not have an SSN
or 2P number available to look up an ID with the spyglass feature.
Campus Community>Personal Information>Search/Match

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 2. Academic Career During the admissions process, applicants are assigned an academic career.
Careers are levels of academic work that represent the highest grouping of
student academic progress. Transcripts are issued by academic career.
Career is similar to the ISIS academic level, except that there are also careers
for each professional school and one for continuing education.

Your project team defined 5 careers: an undergraduate career, a graduate

career, and careers for each professional school.

An ID can be associated with more than one career.

3. Academic Program The program is the major controlling variable at the student level. Programs
represent academic centers on the Pittsburgh campus and divisions at the
regional campuses. A program is, essentially, a school—except that each must
be unique within one academic career. Inside each career, programs are the
entity that determine to what a student applies and is admitted and from which
the student ultimately graduates.

Students can be active at more than one school (in multiple programs); yet one
is designated as primary each term for enrollment and tuition calculation.

The leading character of the academic program code determines the career
Naming Conventions for
programs offered at the and/or campus having ownership.
Pittsburgh Campus:
C for Continuing Education (CGS only)
st
D for Dental Medicine (1 Professional)
st
L for Law (1 Professional)
st
M for Medicine (1 Professional)
P for Graduate Programs at the Pittsburgh campus
U for Undergraduate Programs at the Pittsburgh campus
For instance, there are two nursing programs on the Pittsburgh campus;
graduate nursing (PNURS) and one for undergraduate nursing (UNURS).
Where the code begins with a B, G, J, or T, those characters designate regional
campus programs.
B for Bradford Campus Programs
Regional Programs noted
by first letter of city: G for Greensburg Campus Programs
J for Johnstown Campus Programs
T for Titusville Campus Programs

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 See the Conversion Index for details about how the project team mapped the
old ISIS academic levels to the new academic programs in PeopleSoft.

4. Academic Plan An academic plan is equivalent to a major, minor or certificate (or academic
program as it was known in ISIS) and has a specific degree or objective tied to
it. It is also associated directly to an Academic Program in PeopleSoft.
A valid academic plan is required to activate a student into a term. Select the
academic plan for the student. A student can have any number of academic
plans within an academic program.
Plan codes were designed using this naming convention:

AN-ELT-BA, where the first group indicates a short description of the area of
study, i.e., AN-ELT is Anthropology and English Literature. The last group of
characters indicates the degree (BA for Bachelor of Arts).
5. Academic Sub- An academic sub-plan is tied directly to an academic plan and considered either
Plan (optional) an area of concentration or an intended field of study associated with the
University’s undecided academic plan codes.
Intended majors are identified with an IM suffix, i.e. ANTH-IM indicates that
Anthropology is the intended major sub-plan where the undergraduate student
has not yet declared a major (selected an academic plan). The plan typically
remains undeclared until the end of the student’s sophomore year.

The ISIS equivalent for academic sub-plans was the area of concentration (or
ARCO). These were assigned in ISIS, however, at the point of graduation. As a
result, the sub-plans are blank for continuing students copied from ISIS.
The intended major sub-plan is assigned on the admissions application and
activated (in student records) by the admissions matriculation process.

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Academic Center to Program Conversion Index

Academic Academic
Campus Description Career Level
Program Center(s)
PA-S PIT School of Arts & Sciences GRAD 12,13,14 2
UCGS PIT College of General Studies UGRD 15, 52 1
USUMS PIT University Summer Sessions UGRD 15, 52 1
UA-S PIT School of Arts and Sciences UGRD 17 1
UCHS PIT School of Arts and Science UGRD 17 1
PINTS PIT Interschool Programs GRAD 18 2
PKATZ PIT Joseph M. Katz Grad Sch Bus GRAD 21 2
PEDUC PIT School of Education GRAD 22 2
UEDUC PIT School of Education UGRD 22 1
PENGR PIT School of Engineering GRAD 23 2
UENGR PIT School of Engineering UGRD 23 1
PLAW PIT School of Law GRAD 24 2
LAWSC PIT School of Law LAW 24 2
PGSPA PIT Grad Sch of Pub & Int'l Affrs GRAD 25 2
PSCWK PIT School of Social Work GRAD 26 2
USCWK PIT School of Social Work UGRD 26 1
UCBA PIT College of Business Admin UGRD 28 1
DNMEN PIT School of Dental Medicine DMED 31 2
PDMED PIT School of Dental Medicine GRAD 31 2
UDMED PIT School of Dental Medicine UGRD 31 1
PNURS PIT School of Nursing GRAD 32 2
UNURS PIT School of Nursing UGRD 32 1
PPHRM PIT School of Pharmacy GRAD 33 2
UPHRM PIT School of Pharmacy UGRD 33 1
PPBHL PIT Graduate Sch of Public Health GRAD 34 2
PMEDS PIT School of Medicine GRAD 35 2
MEDSC PIT School of Medicine MEDS 35 2
PSHRS PIT Sch Hlth & Rehabilitation Scs GRAD 39 2
USHRS PIT Sch Hlth & Rehabilitation Scs UGRD 39 1
JA-S UPJ Arts and Sciences UGRD 41 1
JBEHS UPJ Behavioral Sciences UGRD 41 1
JEDUC UPJ Education UGRD 41 1
JENGT UPJ Engineering Technology UGRD 41 1
JGS UPJ General Studies UGRD 41 1
JHUMA UPJ Humanities UGRD 41 1
JNATS UPJ Natural Sciences UGRD 41 1
JNURS UPJ Nursing UGRD 41 1
JSOCS UPJ Social Sciences UGRD 41 1
JSUMS UPJ University Summer Sessions UGRD 41 1

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Academic Center to Program Conversion Index (cont.)

Academic Academic
Campus Description Career Level
Program Center(s)
GA-S UPG Arts and Sciences UGRD 42 1
GBEHS UPG Behavioral Sciences UGRD 42 1
GHUMA UPG Humanities UGRD 42 1
GNATS UPG Natural Sciences UGRD 42 1
GSOCS UPG Social Sciences UGRD 42 1
GSUMS UPG University Summer Sessions UGRD 42 1
TA-S UPT Arts and Sciences UGRD 43 1
TEDUC UPT Education UGRD 43 1
TENGR UPT Engineering UGRD 43 1
THRS UPT Health & Rehabilitation Sci UGRD 43 1
THUMA UPT Humanities UGRD 43 1
TNATS UPT Natural Science UGRD 43 1
TSOCS UPT Social Sciences UGRD 43 1
TSUMS UPT University Summer Sessions UGRD 43 1
BA-S UPB Arts and Sciences UGRD 44 1
BCOED UPB Cooperative Educ UGRD 44 1
BDEAN UPB Academic Dean UGRD 44 1
BEDUC UPB Education UGRD 44 1
BENGR UPB Engineering UGRD 44 1
BGS UPB General Studies UGRD 44 1
BHUMA UPB Humanities UGRD 44 1
BNATS UPB Natural Sciences UGRD 44 1
BNURS UPB Nursing UGRD 44 1
BSES UPB Sport and Exercise Science UGRD 44 1
BSOCS UPB Social Sciences UGRD 44 1
BSUMS UPB University Summer Sessions UGRD 44 1
PUCIS PIT Univ Center/Int'l Stds - GRAD GRAD 50 2
UCOED PIT Cooperative Education Programs UGRD 50 1
UUCIS PIT Univ Center/Int'l Stds - UGRD UGRD 50 1
PEDPH PIT Education/Public Health - GRAD GRAD 53 2
PCSUR PIT Univ Center Social & Urban Res GRAD 81 2
PSIS PIT School of Information Sciences GRAD 94 2
USIS PIT School of Information Sciences UGRD 94 1
PNRPH PIT Nursing/Public Health - GRAD GRAD 95 2