Postsecondary Institutions in the United States: Fall 2000 and Degrees and OtherAwards Conferred: 1999-2000

摘要

This report presents findings from the Integrated Postsecondary Education DataSystem (IPEDS) 'Institutional Characteristics Survey' (IPEDS-IC: 2000-01) and 'Completions Survey' (IPEDSC: 1999-2000). These data, collected in fall 2000, were the first to be collected through the IPEDS Web-based data collection system. IPEDS collects data from about 9,400 postsecondary institutions in the United States (the 50 states and the District of Columbia) and its outlying areas. For IPEDS, a postsecondary institution is defined as an organization that is open to the public and has as its primary mission the provision of postsecondary education. IPEDS defines postsecondary education as formal instructional programs with a curriculum designed primarily for students who are beyond the compulsory age for high school. This includes academic, vocational, and continuing professional education programs and excludes institutions that offer only avocational (leisure) and adult basic education programs. Participation in IPEDS was a requirement for the approximately 6,600 institutions that participated in Title IV federal student financial aid programs such as Pell Grants or Stafford Loans during the 2000-01 academic year. In addition, institutions that do not participate in Title IV programs are offered the opportunity to participate in the IPEDS data collection process. About 30 percent of the IPEDS institutions located within the 50 states and the District of Columbia (2,711 institutions) did not participate in Title IV programs during the 2000-01 academic year and are thus not the main focus of this report. Since IPEDS does not identify all postsecondary institutions, the U.S. Department of Education currently has plans to conduct an extensive nationwide search to identify post secondary institutions that are not currently included in the IPEDS database. The project also includes plans to collect a limited amount of information from both those formerly identified and the newly identified non-Title IV institutions.