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The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) examines the characteristics of students in postsecondary education, with special focus on how they finance their education.

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The Data Analysis System is intermittently updated with additional variables. Upon completion, the NPSAS:08 DAS will include more than 800 variables.


New NPSAS Content What's New

  • New Funding Opportunity
    The National Center for Education Research, in collaboration with the National Center for Education Statistics, is piloting a program for researchers to use the 2012 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) student sample to conduct innovative experiments that examine ways to improve access to, persistence in, and/or completion of postsecondary education. The grant application deadline is 9/16/2010. For more information, go to http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/grant.
  • NPSAS:08 Student employment and remedial course variables were revised and new variables added
    In the NPSAS:08 undergraduate DAS, the variables pertaining to student employment have been revised to correct the underestimates of students working full time and considering themselves to be primarily employees rather than students. The variables for whether the student took remedial courses in 2007-08 (REMETOOK) and the number of remedial courses taken in 2007-08 (REMENUM) have been revised to include all undergraduates in the denominator. REMETOOK is now consistent with how the variable was coded in NPSAS:04. New variables have been added for net price, aid ratio, high school curriculum, college majors, and institution types. For more information go to: http://nces.ed.gov/das/new/index.asp.
  • Postsecondary Expectations and Plans for the High School Senior Class of 2003-04
    This set of Issue Tables draws on data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002) to highlight the postsecondary expectations and plans of the senior class of 2003-04.

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