Education
Trends in College Spending (TCS) Online
Trends in College Spending (TCS) Online is an interactive web-based data system that gives higher education stakeholders easy access to information on finance, performance, and enrollments for individual institutions, groups of institutions, or the nation as a whole. Recent patterns in higher education finance are presented using six primary "metrics" compiled by the Delta Cost Project (shown below). These metrics mirror those in the Delta Cost Project’s Trends in College Spending reports, where national-level patterns and trends are presented. The TCS system allows institutional-level comparisons with those national data.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
The Data Center allows users to retrieve IPEDS data using the functions listed on the main menu to the left. As you mouse over each function, the function will be described in this bubble. Find the function you wish to use and click on the function to begin. Once inside the Data Center, use the Main Menu to switch between functions without losing the information you have already selected.
Education Trust
Education Trust – West has developed a number of tools to help students, parents, educators, policymakers, and advocates in California more easily find and use key education data. The Education Trust is a national non-profit advocacy organization that promotes high academic achievement for all students at all levels, particularly for students of color and low-income students. The Education Trust promotes high academic achievement for all students at all levels — pre-kindergarten through college. The goal is to close the gaps in opportunity and achievement that consign far too many young people — especially those from low-income families or who are black, Latino, or American Indian — to lives on the margins of the American mainstream.
Higher Education Resources and Reports | The Lumina Foundation
Lumina Foundation is an independent, private foundation committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with degrees, certificates and other high-quality credentials to 60 percent by 2025. Lumina’s outcomes-based approach focuses on helping to design and build an equitable, accessible, responsive and accountable higher education system while fostering a national sense of urgency for action to achieve Goal 2025.
National Center for Education Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. NCES is located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences. NCES fulfills a Congressional mandate to collect, collate, analyze, and report complete statistics on the condition of American education; conduct and publish reports; and review and report on education activities internationally.
The World Bank
Edstats provides enrollment, performance, testing, and expenditure data, by country. It also provides projections for education trends and data on educational inequities.
U.S. Department of Education
On May 9, 2013, President Obama signed an executive order that made open and machine-readable data the new default for government information. Making information about government operations more readily available and useful is also core to the promise of a more efficient and transparent government.
ED's public data listing in machine readable format is located at www.ed.gov/data.json. Below is a web-enabled version featuring searching, filtering and links to additional downloads and resources. We will continue to expand the contents of our public data listing regularly as new information becomes available.