Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

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The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is a comprehensive U.S. federal data collection program that gathers and reports information on postsecondary institutions, including enrollment, finances, graduation rates, and institutional characteristics.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf education statistics system
federal data collection program
postsecondary education database
abbreviation IPEDS NERFINISHED
accessMode online
appliesTo Title IV participating institutions
degree-granting postsecondary institutions
non-degree-granting postsecondary institutions
component IPEDS Data Center NERFINISHED
IPEDS Data Collection System NERFINISHED
IPEDS Trend Generator NERFINISHED
IPEDS Use the Data tools
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dataCoverage U.S. territories NERFINISHED
national
dataGranularity institution level
dataType academic libraries data
admissions data
completion data
distance education data
enrollment data
finance data
graduation rate data
human resources data
institution-level data
institutional characteristics data
outcome measures data
program completions data
revenues and expenditures data
staffing data
student financial aid data
tuition and fees data
field education statistics
higher education policy
postsecondary education
frequency annual data collection
inception 1986
jurisdiction United States government
surface form: United States federal government
language English
operator National Center for Education Statistics NERFINISHED
parentOrganization Institute of Education Sciences NERFINISHED
U.S. Department of Education NERFINISHED
predecessor Higher Education General Information Survey NERFINISHED
provides official federal statistics on U.S. postsecondary education
purpose to collect data from postsecondary institutions in the United States
to inform the public about postsecondary education
to provide comprehensive statistics on postsecondary education
to support education research and policymaking
regulatoryBasis Higher Education Act of 1965 NERFINISHED
supports College Navigator NERFINISHED
College Scorecard data infrastructure
usedBy institutional administrators
journalists
policy makers
researchers
students and families
website https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds

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R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity dataSource Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System