Experts say they have no reason to mistrust the new data, but aspects of the rollout suggest the Education Department could ...

"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 ...

To establish the set of colleges included in the rankings, we started with the 1,586 colleges in the 50 states that are listed in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education ...

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 Common Data Set (CDS) initiative is a collaborative effort among higher education data providers to improve the quality and accuracy of information provided across institutions through the ...

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 ...