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As part of the academic quality assurance process at Ryerson, all degree granting programs and schools undergo a program review approximately every seven years. Programs are required to provide information about what programs are intended to achieve, how they will achieve them and how they will know they have met their goals.

Senate and the program review process
Degree-Level Expectations (DLEs)
Collecting information
- Key statistics
- Reports and student surveys

Policies that determine the university's academic quality assurance framework and periodic program review are established by Ryerson's Senate. To help in your understanding of new program development and the program review process at Ryerson - and how curriculum development fits into this process - links are provided below to key Senate policies as well as the periodic program review schedule.

Policy 110, Institutional Quality Assurance Process (IQAP) [pdf] ] is an umbrella policy which includes the policies that outline the process for developing and reviewing new and existing programs. Please note that final implementation of this policy is pending Quality Council approval. Policies included in 110 are listed below.

Policy 112, Approval Process For New Undergraduate Programs [pdf]

Policy 126, Periodic Program Review Of Undergraduate Programs [pdf]

Policy 127, Curriculum Modifications: Graduate and Undergraduate Programs [pdf]

To determine when your program is scheduled for review, consult the periodic program review schedule [pdf].

To comply with the requirements of the newly instituted Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance (the Quality Council), Senate revised program review and new program policies to include degree-level expectations (DLEs). DLEs are a threshold framework for undergraduate and graduate students' expression of intellectual and creative skills.

To learn more about DLEs and how they impact your program review process, see our page on Degree-Level Expectations.

Since program reviews require some collection of data, an excellent starting point is The University Planning Office (UPO). Some of the UPO's sources of data that would be helpful to program reviews are listed below. Clicking on Key Statistics and Reports and Student Surveys will take you to the UPO site where these statistics are housed.