Summary of the IPEDS data release schedule

The Best Known Date for IPEDS data release!

IPEDS stand for Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and is a set of survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a division of the United State Education Department(US ED).

All the IPEDS survey data can be obtained through the IPEDS data center. IPEDS survey data are published in various quality control levels. The most recent guide line are covered in the document: IPEDS Data Release Procedure. In essence, beginning with data submitted in the 2011-12 survey year, data will be released in 3 phases: preliminary, provisional and final, geared toward national, state and institutional level analysis. In tech terms, these are what they mean:

• Preliminary - Edited but unimputed for non-responding school
• Provisional - Fully Edited with Imputing for non-responding institutions
• Final - Includes Edited updates from PYR - were referred to as 'revised data'

However, to track down when each set of data were published, it is not an easy task. One source of this kind of information is the 'This Week in IPEDS' news letter/email. The archive for these news letters can be found at IPEDS news site. However, even with the news letter, sometimes it is still hard to pinpoint the date a certain data set is made available at the IPEDS data center.

The following info is compiled from the news letters mentioned above. The only thing can be said about the date is these are the 'best known date'. Procedures to derive these info are detailed in this document.

Survey Year 2010-11

Survey Year	Survey	Preliminary*	Provisional	Final
2010-11	IC	2/8/2011	9/20/2011	4/27/2012
2010-11	C	2/8/2011	9/20/2011	4/27/2012
2010-11	E12	2/8/2011	9/20/2011	4/27/2012
2010-11	HR	-	11/22/2011	Target ?/?/2013
2010-11	SFA	-	-	4/27/2012
2010-11	EF	-	-	-
2010-11	F	-	-	-
2010-11	GR	-	-	-

Survey Year 2011-12

Survey Year	Survey	Preliminary*	Provisional	Final
2011-12	IC	-	9/26/2012	Target ?/?/2013
2011-12	C	-	9/26/2012	Target ?/?/2013
2011-12	E12	-	9/26/2012	Target ?/?/2013
2011-12	HR	-	9/26/2012	Target ?/?/2013
2011-12	SFA	-	9/26/2012	Target ?/?/2013
2011-12	EF	10/9/2012	Target ?/?/2012	Target ?/?/2013
2011-12	F	10/9/2012	Target ?/?/2012	Target ?/?/2013
2011-12	GR	10/9/2012	Target ?/?/2012	Target ?/?/2013

* Preliminary data will not be accessible once the provisional data is made available.

IC -Institutional Characteristics
C - The Completion Survey
E12 - 12-month Enrollment Survey
HR - Human Resource Survey
SFA - Student Financial Aid Survey
EF - Fall Enrollment Survey
GR - The Graduation Rate Survey

* A personal note: It take about 5 months for preliminary release and about 7-11 months for provisional release.

US College Graduation Rates by State for 2009-10 graduates

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College Graduation Rates by State for 2008-09 graduates
College Graduation Rates Ranking by State - 2008-09 Graduates
US College Graduation Rates by Race by State - 2009 IPEDS

The CL Higher Education Center just released the compiled state by state college graduation rate data for 2009-10 college graduates. The compiled rates includes state rates for different types/sectors of institutions breaking down by race and gender. Graduation rates for non-resident alien are also included.


The released data is based on the 2010 Graduation Rate survey conducted by the IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) division of the National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES) of the US Department of Education. For the IPEDS graduation rate survey, IPEDS only collect the race, gender and non-resident alien status from schools that offer degrees that take two or more years to complete. For schools that offers degrees with less than two years to complete, only the total head counts are collected. Short discussion on the scope and limitation of the IPEDS graduation rate survey can also be found in my previous article : College Graduation Rates by State for 2008-09 graduates.

For 2010, the overall college graduation rate for US citizen is 49% for the continental US states and D.C. assuming that all students attending less-than-2-years schools are all US citizen. For degree-granting schools, the US continental graduation rate is 46%. The corresponding rate for non-degree granting schools is 67%. For the 2010 survey, about 12% students accounted for attended non-degree-granting schools and most (74%) of the students attending non-degree-granting schools attending less-than-2-years institutions.

In terms of gender profiles, which is only applicable to colleges offer at least 2 year degrees, women posted an overall graduation rate of 48% for degree-granting schools while men posted a rate of 43%. In comparison, the non-resident alien women posted a rate of 51% while the alien men posted a rate of 48%. For non-degree-granting schools, US women posted a rate of 68% while men posted a rate of 64%. There are very few (a total of 264) non-resident alien enrolled in US non-degree-granting schools with an average rate of 63% (64% for women and 63% for men).

Related articles will be posted later.

2006 Collge Going Rates by In-State and Out-of-State

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CL Higher Education College Going Rate Data Release

CL Higher Education Center just added the 2005-06 in-state and out-state analysis to its College Going Rates by State data set.

The in-state rate is calculated for students who attended colleges in their home state while the out-state rate is for students who went to colleges that is outside of their home state. One interesting fact is that most of the North-Eastern states exhibit high out-state college going rates, which can due to the fact that all these states are close to each other and is well within the comfortable driving distances from each other.

State	Collge Going Total	Stay Total	Out Total
Alabama	72%	64%	7%
Alaska	50%	29%	21%
Arizona	49%	43%	6%
Arkansas	60%	53%	7%
California	63%	57%	6%
Colorado	69%	54%	15%
Connecticut	84%	45%	39%
Delaware	81%	53%	28%
District of Columbia	99%	34%	64%
Florida	71%	63%	8%
Georgia	77%	64%	13%
Hawaii	69%	44%	25%
Idaho	48%	35%	13%
Illinois	69%	51%	18%
Indiana	70%	61%	9%
Iowa	67%	57%	9%
Kansas	72%	61%	11%
Kentucky	68%	61%	7%
Louisiana	83%	74%	9%
Maine	77%	50%	27%
Maryland	78%	49%	29%
Massachusetts	87%	58%	29%
Michigan	72%	64%	7%
Minnesota	75%	55%	19%
Mississippi	86%	79%	7%
Missouri	66%	55%	11%
Montana	62%	46%	16%
Nebraska	73%	60%	13%
Nevada	56%	43%	13%
New Hampshire	76%	40%	37%
New Jersey	82%	47%	35%
New Mexico	77%	60%	17%
New York	89%	72%	18%
North Carolina	71%	64%	7%
North Dakota	78%	57%	21%
Ohio	68%	57%	11%
Oklahoma	67%	60%	7%
Oregon	53%	40%	12%
Pennsylvania	73%	60%	13%
Rhode Island	67%	41%	26%
South Carolina	52%	47%	5%
South Dakota	77%	59%	18%
Tennessee	74%	63%	11%
Texas	60%	53%	7%
Utah	49%	45%	4%
Vermont	66%	28%	37%
Virginia	75%	60%	15%
Washington	53%	41%	12%
West Virginia	63%	55%	8%
Wisconsin	68%	55%	13%
Wyoming	59%	43%	16%
US Total	69%	57%	13%

Again, the data is based on the 2005-06 Common Core Data (CCD) survey, the Private School Survey (PSS) and the Integrated Postsecondary Education System (IPEDS) migration survey managed by the National Center of Education Statistics (NCES) of the Department of Education (USDE).

See prior blog entry for detailed info on how these data is processed.