Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study First Follow-up 1996-98 (BPS:96/98) Methodology Report

摘要

The Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS) follows a cohort of students who started their postsecondary education during the 1995-1996 academic year. Students were first interviewed during 1996 as part of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study: 1996 (NPSAS:96). The BPS:96/98 study is the first follow-up of this cohort. A second follow-up in 2001 will monitor academic progress through six years, and assess completion rates for 4-year programs in the normal time expected. A third follow-up, scheduled to occur in 2003, seven to eight years after college entry, will allow for analysis of attainment among students who started working on a baccalaureate degree in 1995-96.