Integrated Postsecondary
Education Data System (IPEDS) 2025-26 through 2026-27
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
11/13/2025
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
08/31/2027
70,152
65,536
750,793
636,660
0
0
The National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES) seeks authorization from OMB to make a change to
the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data
collection. IPEDS is a web-based data collection system designed to
collect basic data from all postsecondary institutions in the
United States and the other jurisdictions. The IPEDS data
collection enables the National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES) to report on key dimensions of postsecondary education such
as enrollments, degrees and other awards earned, tuition and fees,
average net price, student financial aid, graduation rates, student
outcomes, revenues and expenditures, faculty salaries, and staff
employed. The IPEDS web-based data collection system was
implemented in 2000-01. In 2022-23, IPEDS collected data from 5,983
Title IV postsecondary institutions in the United States and the
other jurisdictions. All Title IV institutions are required to
respond to IPEDS (Section 490 of the Higher Education Amendments of
1992 [P.L. 102-325]). IPEDS allows other (non-Title IV)
institutions to participate on a voluntary basis; approximately 200
non-Title IV institutions elect to respond each year. Institution
closures and mergers have led to a decrease in the number of
institutions in the IPEDS universe over the past few years. Due to
these fluctuations, combined with the addition of new institutions,
NCES uses rounded estimates for the number of institutions in the
respondent burden calculations for the upcoming years (estimated
6,000 Title IV institutions plus 200 non-title IV institutions for
a total of 6,200 institutions estimated to submit IPEDS data during
the 2024-25 through 2026-27 IPEDS data collections). IPEDS data are
available to the public through the College Navigator and IPEDS Use
the Data websites. The current clearance covers the 2022-23 through
2024-25 collections and is due to expire on August 31, 2025. We are
requesting to make changes to multiple survey components and other
updates to the identification, cross-cutting terminology, and the
glossary. The largest changes in this package are (1) the addition
of a new Cost (CST) survey component, which combines components
taken from the Student Financial Aid (SFA) and Institutional
Characteristics (IC) components and combines them with added
questions to determine how and make publicly available more
information about how postsecondary institutions ask for
information above and beyond the FAFSA; and (2) the planned
elimination of the Academic Libraries (AL) survey beginning in the
2025-26 administration. As part of the 30D public comment period
review, NCES has added an Appendix E, containing NCES responses to
60D public comments. Further, NCES requests that IPEDS data
submitters and other stakeholders respond to the directed questions
found in Appendix D of this submission.
NCES is requesting to add a new
IPEDS “Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS)
survey component to address requirements within President Trump’s
August 7, 2025 Presidential Memorandum (“Ensuring Transparency in
Higher Education Admissions”) and Secretary McMahon’s directive to
NCES from the same day to initiate a series of changes to IPEDS to
address the requirements of the Presidential Memorandum during the
2025-26 school year.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Summary_of_changes_change_package_ACTS_102925 (FOR OIRA).docx
OMB 83C Form _IPEDS.pdf
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) 2024-25 through 2026-27