
When faculty and departments adopt Intellectus, faculty training is free. These participants preferred Intellectus and felt more confident in conducting statistical analysis compared to SPSS. Chen, Moran, Sun & Vu (2018) found Perceived Usability and Ease of Use rating statistically higher for Intellectus compared to SPSS. This free time can be spent conducting their own research or taking a COVID mental health break. Additionally, faculty mentors report saving 4.5 hours/ student when overseeing a dissertation or scholarly project. Faculty report saving 40 hours/semester teaching statistics by not having to explain how to navigate SPSS and interpret SPSS output. Given these objectives, here are five reasons to use Intellectus Statistics as the preferred statistics tool over SPSS: time savings, decreased student learning curve, zero-dollar faculty training costs, efficiency of findings, and an integrated statistics course. These institutions also desire a reduced faculty workload which encourages them to conduct more of their own research.

Learning statistics and conducting quantitative analyses is challenging to most students, leading institutions to look for the best tools available.
