BLOG OVERVIEW: The Department of Education's new Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) requires four-year colleges and universities to report seven years of detailed student-level ...

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 federal government’s long-awaited data on the students enrolled in distance education courses nationwide provide a dubious baseline, a new study suggests, as confusing instructions, inflexible ...

"IPEDS is the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. It is a system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics ...

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 ...

The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System surveys hold great weight in the higher education system, but they are not inclusive enough and thus no longer fit for purpose, says Elizabeth Harris ...

Section 1. Background. Although the Supreme Court of the United States has definitively held that consideration of race in higher education admissions violates students’ civil rights, the persistent ...

The U.S. Education Department has made no secret of its thirst for a new database to track individual college students' progress throughout their academic careers, which the federal Commission on the ...

The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is a system of interrelated surveys that collect institutional-level data from all U.S. postsecondary institutions that participate in Title ...

IPEDS is the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, a system of interconnected reports collected annually by the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).