Educational Leadership: Higher Education

The primary purpose of the Digest of Education Statistics is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school.

IPEDS gathers information from every college, university, and technical and vocational institution that participates in the federal student financial aid programs. The Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, requires that institutions that participate in federal student aid programs report data on enrollments, program completions, graduation rates, faculty and staff, finances, institutional prices, and student financial aid.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) located within the U.S. Department of Education and Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary Federal entity for collecting and analyzing date related to education.

Population, education, housing, economic, and geographic data and statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau.

This website is an integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 2000–2015. Some indicators may have been updated since they appeared in print.