Subject area	Engineering Education
More specific subject area	Learning Analytics
Type of data	Tables, graphs, figures, and spreadsheet file
How data was acquired	For the five-year study period of engineering program, Grade Point Average (GPA) and its cumulative value of each of the sample were obtained from the Department of Student Records and Academic Affairs.
Data format	Raw, analyzed
Experimental factors	Undergraduates with incomplete academic records were excluded
Experimental features	Descriptive statistics, frequency distributions, one-way ANOVA and multiple comparison post-hoc tests were performed to determine whether the variations in the academic performances are significant across the seven engineering programs.
Data source location	The population sample and the academic performance data provided in this article were obtained at Covenant University, Canaanland, Ota, Nigeria (Latitude 6.6718oN, Longitude 3.1581oE)
Data accessibility	In order to encourage evidence-based research in learning analytics, detailed datasets are made publicly available in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file attached to this article.