Many of the statistical datasets on U.S. higher education that are available in the Data Planet repository are drawn from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). IPEDS involves annual institution-level data collections. All postsecondary institutions that participate in federal programs providing financial assistance to students are required to report data using a web-based data collection system, comprising of three collection periods each year. Applications and admissions information is not collected from institutions with an open admissions policy. IPEDS provides basic data needed to describe and analyze trends in postsecondary education in the United States, in terms of the numbers of students enrolled, staff employed, dollars expended, and degrees earned.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics. Integrated Postsecondary Data System. Accessed November 27, 2022, https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/ReportYourData/IpedsSurvey
Methodology.
The data are collected through the Academic Libraries Survey, a voluntary survey of approximately 3,700 degree-granting postsecondary institutions conducted biennially by the NCES as part of its Library Statistics Program. The dataset summarizes services, staff, collections, and expenditures of academic libraries in 2- and 4-year degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.
Any coeducational postsecondary institution in the United States that participates in the federal student financial assistance programs and has an intercollegiate athletic program is required by the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, 20 USC 1092(g) (also known as the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act [EADA]), to participate in the annual EADA data collection. Through this survey, data are collected by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education on athletic participation, staffing, and revenues and expenses, by men's, women's, and coed varsity teams.
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Browse the datasets available on Higher Education in the Browse by Subject listing under Education:
The chart shown shows a trend view of the growth in number of females graduating with bachelor's degrees in petroleum engineering in the United States using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.
Change the Type selection to "All Institutions" and select the "Rank" chart type option to rank the top schools by number of females graduating with bachelor's degrees in petroleum engineering:
Use the multi-select function by holding down the Control key (or Command on iOS) and left clicking on two (or more) indicators to create comparisons within and across datasets. For example, the chart shown here compares trends in applications, admissions, and enrollment at the University of Alabama:
