IPEDS Data Release Memorandum (Memo)

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Memorandum for the NCES Review Tracking System (RTS) IPEDS Data Collection Cycle

2024–25 IPEDS Data Collection: Fall Provisional Data Release

The provisional data release of the components collected during the fall collection period of the 2024–25 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) contains substantive changes in file structure or file documentation for multiple components of IPEDS compared to the previous year. The cost of attendance and tuition items that were previously collected via the Institutional Characteristics (IC) component have been moved to a new Cost (CST) survey component. The other items previously collected in the IC component are still included there, and the items collected via the IC Header component have been added to them to form the current IC component. The CST component will also be open in the winter data collection period to gather some items previously collected via the Student Financial Aid component in order to calculate the net price of attendance. Because of that, data from CST will not be released with the other fall collection components. In the 12-Month Enrollment component, a screening question regarding whether the institution enrolled high school students in college courses for credit during the 12-month reporting period was added. This screening question was previously part of the IC component. The “Gender unknown” and “Another gender” question was modified in the 12-Month Enrollment and the Completions components to improve clarity. Details regarding these changes can be found under “Updates to the Data Collection” on the IPEDS Report Your Data website (https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/report-your-data#updates-to-the-data-collection), as pictured below.

The data are released to the public through the “Use the Data” portal (https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data) on the IPEDS website. The IPEDS Survey Methodology is located at https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/survey-components/ipeds-survey-methodology as a resource for data users.

IPEDS is an annual, large-scale, web-based survey that collects institution-level data from postsecondary institutions in the United States (50 states and the District of Columbia) and other U.S. jurisdictions.¹ For more information about the IPEDS Survey, its 12 components, and data release procedures, visit https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data/survey-components. This memorandum documents the IPEDS universe of reporting institutions and response to the fall collection period of the 2024–25 IPEDS, which was open from September 4, 2024 to October 16, 2024.

2024–25 IPEDS Universe of Institutions

The IPEDS universe is established during the fall collection period. During the 2024–25 collection year, there were 5,829 Title IV institutions, administrative offices,² and U.S. service academies³ in the United States and other jurisdictions of the United States, such as Puerto Rico. For 2024–25, a total of 533 postsecondary institutions were reported exclusively by a parent institution and are not included in the universe counts. The four U.S. service academies that are not Title IV eligible are included in the IPEDS universe because they are federally funded and open to the public.

NCES statistical standards require that the potential for nonresponse bias for all institutions be analyzed for sectors for which the response rate is less than 85 percent. Because response rates were 100 percent for each survey component, no such analysis was necessary.

Table 1 provides an overview of the number of institutions responding to the components that comprise the fall collection period. This table is updated after each collection period’s data release. Appendix A provides a summary of responses for the previous collection year for comparison purposes. Appendix B shows a table of institutions with a Title IV status change.⁴ Of the 103 institutions that were Title IV in 2023–24 but were no longer Title IV in 2024–25, some 63 were for-profit institutions.

Table 1. Summary of response by IPEDS survey component, 2024–25 data collection

IPEDS Survey Component	Number of Institutions
IPEDS Survey Component	Not required to report¹	Expected to respond	Did not respond	Provided data
Fall Collection Period: September 4, 2024 to October 16, 2024
Institutional Characteristics	0	5,829	4	5,825
Completions²	0	5,760	6	5,754
12-Month Enrollment²	11	5,749	5	5,744
Winter Collection Period: December 4, 2024 to February 5, 2025
Admissions²	—	—	—	—
Graduation Rates²	—	—	—	—
200 Percent Graduation Rates²	—	—	—	—
Outcome Measures²	—	—	—	—
Student Financial Aid²	—	—	—	—
Spring Collection Period: December 4, 2024 to April 2, 2025
Academic Libraries²	—	—	—	—
Fall Enrollment²	—	—	—	—
Finance	—	—	—	—
Human Resources	—	—	—	—

— Data currently not available.

¹ Not required to respond to the survey component because the institutions were new, were closed, did not enroll students, or did not meet the criteria for the component (e.g., some components only apply to degree-granting institutions).

² Does not include the 70 administrative offices. An administrative office is a system or central office in a multi-campus environment.

NOTE: Title IV institutions are those with a written agreement with the U.S. Department of Education that allows the institution to participate in any of the Title IV federal student financial assistance programs. The U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy are not Title IV eligible but are included in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) universe because they are federally funded and open to the public; they are included in this table. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is Title IV eligible and is also included in this table. Definitions for terms used in this table may be found in the IPEDS online glossary located at https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/public/glossary. The glossary is primarily focused on terms used in the current IPEDS collection and may not reflect the definitions in effect when the data in this table were collected.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS 2023–24 collection (provisional data).

For any questions related to this data product release, please contact Brian Fu (Brian.Fu@ed.gov).

¹ The other U.S. jurisdictions surveyed in IPEDS are American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

² Title IV institutions and administrative offices include 5,819 institutions and 70 administrative (central or system) offices. The central and system offices are required to complete the Institutional Characteristics component in the fall, the Human Resources component in the spring, and the Finance component in the spring (if they have their own separate budget).

³ The four U.S. service academies that are not Title IV eligible are the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is Title IV eligible. Data for all five institutions are included in the tables and counts of institutions unless otherwise indicated.

⁴ An institution may be classified as changing Title IV status for the following reasons: it closed, it no longer provides federal funded financial assistance, it lost Title IV eligibility, it combined or merged with another institution, it is new, it began to provide federal funded financial assistance, or it regained Title IV eligibility.

Table A-1. Summary of response by IPEDS survey component, 2023–24 data collection

IPEDS Survey Component	Number of Institutions
IPEDS Survey Component	Not required to report¹	Expected to respond	Did not respond²	Provided data
Fall Collection Period: September 6, 2023 to October 18, 2023
Institutional Characteristics	0	5,889	0	5,889
Completions³	0	5,819	0	5,819
12-Month Enrollment³	7	5,812	0	5,812
Winter Collection Period: December 6, 2023 to February 7, 2024
Admissions³	3,867	1,952	0	1,952
Graduation Rates³	619	5,200	3	5,197
200 Percent Graduation Rates³	919	4,900	2	4,898
Outcome Measures³	2,241	3,578	0	3,578
Student Financial Aid³	88	5,731	4	5,727
Spring Collection Period: December 6, 2023 to April 3, 2024
Academic Libraries³	1,927	3,892	1	3,891
Fall Enrollment³	9	5,810	7	5,803
Finance	5	5,884	9	5,875
Human Resources	4	5,885	6	5,879

Notes:

² Due to unit nonresponse, all data were imputed for nonresponding institutions.

³ Does not include the 70 administrative offices. An administrative office is a system or central office in a multi-campus environment.

NOTE: Title IV institutions are those with a written agreement with the U.S. Department of Education that allows the institution to participate in any of the Title IV federal student financial assistance programs. The U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy are not Title IV eligible but are included in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) universe because they are federally funded and open to the public; they are included in this table. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is Title IV eligible and is also included in this table.

Definitions for terms used in IPEDS may be found in the online glossary located at https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/public/glossary. The glossary is primarily focused on terms used in the current IPEDS collection and may not reflect the definitions in effect when the data in this table were collected.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS 2023–24 collection (provisional data).

Table B-1. Number of Title IV Institutions and number changing Title IV status: United States and other U.S. jurisdictions, academic years 2023–24 and 2024–25

Sector of Institution	Title IV institutions¹ in 2023–24		Title IV institutions¹ in 2024–25		Net change in Title IV status from 2023–24 to 2024–25²
Sector of Institution	Number	Number that are no longer Title IV in 2024–25	Number	Number that became Title IV since 2023–24	Net change in Title IV status from 2023–24 to 2024–25²
All Institutions	5,819	103	5,760	44	-59

Public 4-year	817	0	845	0	0
Private nonprofit 4-year	1,567	24	1,545	3	-21
Private for-profit 4-year	307	12	301	5	-7

Public 2-year	864	4	832	0	-4
Private nonprofit 2-year	124	3	125	1	-2
Private for-profit 2-year	508	9	490	1	-8

Public less-than-2-year	224	7	219	0	-7
Private nonprofit less-than-2-year	55	2	53	1	-1
Private for-profit less-than-2-year	1,353	42	1,350	33	-9

¹ The U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy are not Title IV eligible but are included in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) universe because they are federally funded and open to the public; they are included in this table. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is Title IV eligible and is also included in this table.

² The net change indicated in this table is the result of changes to Title IV status (number that became Title IV since 2023–24 minus the number that were no longer Title IV as of 2024–25). Institutions that changed sector between 2023–24 and 2024–25 are not reflected in this column.

NOTE: Title IV institutions are those with a written agreement with the U.S. Department of Education that allows the institution to participate in any of the Title IV federal student financial assistance programs. An institution may be classified as changing Title IV status because it closed, it no longer provides federally funded financial assistance, it lost Title IV eligibility, it combined or merged with another institution, it is new, it began to provide federally funded financial assistance, or it regained Title IV eligibility. The United States includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The other U.S. jurisdictions include American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Definitions for terms used in IPEDS may be found in the online glossary located at https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/public/glossary. The glossary is primarily focused on terms used in the current IPEDS collection and may not reflect the definitions in effect when the data in this table were collected.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Fall 2023 Institutional Characteristics component (provisional data) and Fall 2024 Institutional Characteristics component (provisional data).