Survey of College Health Services: COVID Testing Practices

Survey of College Health Services: COVID Testing Practices

This 45-page report looks closely at how college and university health services and related campus services are testing students, faculty and staff for COVID-19. The study gives detailed data on the nature, frequency and management of testing, on use of third party processors, types of tests used the number of students tested. It gives detailed data on how often students are tested, how many students remain untested and the overall number of faculty and students with positive diagnosis. The report also presents College Health Service leadership level of satisfaction with the college testing regime as well as specific data on the testing of student athletes. In addition, the report discusses the role of testing as vaccines are gradually rolled out to the college population.

Just a few of the report’s major findings are that:

More than 94% of BA-level colleges in the sample do their own COVID testing.
An estimated 23% of students at colleges charging more than $50,000 per year for tuition had not been tested for COVID vs more than 66% at colleges charging less than $7,000 per year.
The mean number of total faculty and staff diagnosed with COVID since the inception of the pandemic was approximately 74 per institution.
A plurality of respondents are very confident (36.84%) in their institution’s Covid-19 testing, tracing, and isolation practices.
Data in the report is broken out for public and private colleges, by enrollment, tuition level, percentage of students living on campus, and other useful criteria.