The ACHA Data Hub: Your Gateway to Smarter Campus Health Strategy
The ACHA College Health and Well-Being Data Hub is a powerful new platform designed to unite the most important student health data in one place—making it easier than ever for campus leaders, health professionals, and policymakers to drive student success through informed decision-making.
One Hub. Endless Insight.
Developed in response to the increasing demand for a comprehensive view of college health and wellness, the Data Hub helps colleges and universities advance both academic achievement and health equity across campus communities nationwide.
The ACHA Data Hub brings together key data streams to give institutions a 360° view of student health:
- Campus health care utilization
- Administrative data on services and staffing
- Campus health policies and environmental factors
- National health behavior and risk surveys
- Student demographics and academic outcomes
- Institutional characteristics from national education datasets
Visualize, Customize, Benchmark
Using Microsoft Power BI, the Data Hub delivers interactive, ready-to-use reports that make your data work harder for you. Drill down by institutional demographic filters or student-level filters (NCHA reports only) . Save custom views, export visualizations, and benchmark your performance against peer institutions—all with just a few clicks.
With the ACHA Data Hub, you’ll have the tools to measure what matters, identify trends, and take action to improve the health and success of your student population.
Learn more about what's possible with ACHA’s College Health and Well-Being Data Hub in this short video!
Project Goals and Objectives
The ACHA Data Hub is transforming how colleges and universities use data to support student well-being. Our goal is simple: to fuel smarter, data-driven decisions that lead to healthier campus communities nationwide. Here's how the Data Hub helps institutions take action:
Connect and Combine Data
Seamlessly integrate ACHA datasets with institutional data to build a powerful, interactive tool for visualization and reporting.
Turn Trends into Action
Track real-time trends in student health and well-being and uncover insights by linking behavioral, policy, and administrative data.
Drive Results Through Benchmarking
Access national benchmarks and peer comparisons to evaluate your programs, improve efficiency, and spotlight what’s working.
Link Health and Academic Success
Leverage data to explore the relationship between health outcomes, academic performance, and student retention—helping you shape strategies that support both wellness and achievement.
Powering Insights Through Trusted Data Sources
The ACHA Data Hub brings together the most relevant and robust data to help institutions better understand and support student health and well-being. By connecting multiple datasets into one dynamic platform, we’re creating a clearer picture of what students need—and how institutions can respond.
Key Data Sources Integrated into the ACHA Data Hub:
Since 2018, ACHA has surveyed institutional members to collect detailed information from on campus health and counseling services, staffing, wellness programming, facilities, budgets, and more. This annual update provides essential context for understanding each institution’s infrastructure and services.
Looking Ahead: More Data, Deeper Insights
As the ACHA Data Hub evolves, we plan to expand our integrated datasets to provide even richer analysis and benchmarking. Future data sources may include:
- The ACHA Well-Being Assessment
- The ACHA Sexual Health Services Survey
- Electronic health record (EHR) data from member institutions
- Student health insurance claims data
By uniting these diverse data sources, the ACHA Data Hub empowers colleges and universities to take informed, strategic action that enhances student health and drives institutional success.
What Data Hub Users Are Saying
"The Data Hub has been extremely useful as a resource for benchmarking against other college health organizations. The platform is user friendly, and the charts are visually appealing, which helps when disseminating information to others within the organization. Within the platform we are able to see results for all respondents or narrow it down to organizations that are more like us, such as by student population size. This is especially important when we are assessing whether or not we are functioning similarly to our peers. I have been very impressed with the platform."
Start Exploring the Data Hub Today
With access to the ACHA College Health and Well-Being Data Hub, you can view your own school’s data, explore data for other colleges nationally, obtain data that supports you in your strategic decision-making, and analyze trends with campus health and wellness services.
To get this exclusive access, your school:
- must be an institutional member of ACHA, and
- must complete the most recent Institutional Profile Survey (IPS).
Each institutional member is entitled to 2 Data Hub licenses. Once the IPS has been submitted by the deadline and your institutional membership has been renewed, the RMI of your institution will receive an email in January with information on how to designate the 2 members at your institution who should receive Data Hub access. Additional licenses can also be purchased for $100/per user per year.
The data in Data Hub is updated every year according to the following schedule:
Accessing Your Account
To access the Data Hub, a new Microsoft 365 ACHA account will be created for each individual.
The individual(s) designated to receive Data Hub access will receive 2 emails regarding how to log into the Data Hub.
For additional information on access, please review the Getting Started with Data Hub guide and our Data Hub User Access Policy.
Upon login, you'll arrive on the Data Hub home page – your gateway to a range of dynamic reports.
Before you begin to explore, we invite you to familiarize yourself with some of the navigational features and report formats of the tool. Some helpful videos can be found on ACHA’s YouTube channel or in the Video Tutorials section within Data Hub itself. Or you can download the Data Hub Users Guide and Training Manual.
Questions?
Please contact Kawai Tanabe at ktanabe@acha.org
