While the 2025 calendar year was winding down, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) quietly announced that they had received approval for the added IPEDS data collection, Admissions and ...
The Education Department is moving forward with a new dataset initiative for its annual college admissions survey, giving postsecondary schools three months to complete the extensive task. The new ...
President Donald Trump wants to collect more admissions data from colleges and universities to make sure they’re complying with a 2023 Supreme Court decision that ended race-conscious affirmative ...
On Aug. 7, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum entitled “Ensuring Transparency in Higher Education Admissions,” directing the Secretary of Education to “expand the scope of ...
To establish the set of colleges included in the rankings, we started with the 1,565 colleges in the 50 states and Washington, D.C., that are listed in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated ...
The U.S. Department of Education’s plan to drop data on libraries as part of its main postsecondary data system has generated intense blowback from academic librarians. The federal government’s ...
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) was established to help the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) meet its mandate to report full and complete statistics on the ...