What is IPEDS?

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has established the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) as its core postsecondary education data collection program. It is a single, comprehensive system that encompasses all identified institutions whose primary purpose is to provide postsecondary education.

IPEDS consists of institution-level data that can be used to describe trends in postsecondary education at the institution, state and/or national levels. For example, researchers can use IPEDS to analyze information on:

1) enrollments of students: undergraduate, first-time freshmen, graduate and first-professional students by race/ethnicity and gender; full and part-time; degree seeking. See Common Data Set(CDS-B) for this information)
2) institutional revenue and expenditure patterns by source of income and type of expense;
3) salaries of full-time instructional faculty by academic rank and tenure status;
4) completions (degrees awarded) by type of program, level of award, race/ethnicity, and gender:
5) characteristics of postsecondary institutions, including tuition, room and board charges, calendar systems, etc.;
6) other issues of interest.

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IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey

Fall 2008 (.pdf)

Fall 2007 (.pdf)

IPEDS Graduation Rates Survey

Fall 2008 (.pdf)

Fall 2007 (.pdf)

IPEDS Student Financial Aid Survey

Fall 2008 (.pdf)

Fall 2007 (.pdf)

IPEDS Human Resources Survey
Includes Employees by Assigned Position, Fall Staff and Instructional Faculty Surveys

Fall 2008 (.pdf)

Fall 2007 (.pdf)

Fall 2006 (.pdf)

Fall 2005 (.pdf)

IPEDS Fall Staff Survey

Fall 2002 (.pdf .xls)

Fall 2001 (.pdf .xls)

Fall 2000 (.pdf .xls)

Fall 1999 (.pdf .xls)

Fall 1998 (.pdf .xls)

Fall 1996 (.pdf .xls)

Fall 1995 (.pdf .xls)

IPEDS Finance Survey

FY 2008 (.pdf)

FY 2007 (.pdf)

FY 2005 (.pdf)

FY 2003 (.pdf)

FY 2001 (.pdf)

FY 2000 (.pdf)

FY 1999 (.pdf)