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

2022–23 IPEDS Data Collection: Fall Provisional Data Release

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2022-23 Memo

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The provisional data release of the components collected during the fall collection period of the 2022–23 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.  Within the Institutional Characteristics component, there were three notable changes. First, new options for special learning opportunities were added. Second, in Part B, the new option of “Promise Plan” was added. Finally, within Part C of the IC Header, institutions could select from a list of noncredit education categories offered by the institution. Within the 12-Month Enrollment component, the unduplicated headcount of graduate students by gender and race/ethnicity is now further disaggregated by full- or part-time enrollment status. An additional gender question was added to the 12-Month Enrollment and the Completions components to collect the number of students that are unable to be categorized into the IPEDS binary gender categories (men/women). Across all components, the term “Nonresident alien” was changed to “U.S. Nonresident.” 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 2022–23 IPEDS, which was open from September 7, 2022 to October 19, 2022.

2022–23 IPEDS Universe of Institutions

The IPEDS universe is established during the fall collection period. During the 2022–23 collection year, there were 5,988 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 2022–23, a total of 504 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 nearly 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. Of the 144 institutions that were Title IV in 2021-22 but were no longer Title IV in 2022–23, ninety-nine were for-profit institutions.

Table 1. Summary of response by IPEDS survey component, 2022–23 data collection

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For any questions related to this data product release, please contact Tara Lawley, IPEDS Program Director, (tara.lawley@ed.gov).