Data Documentation

College Scorecard provides data at the institution-level and data by field of study. The technical data documents provide in-depth information about these data. The data dictionary includes separate worksheets with institution-level and field of study dictionaries as well as cohort maps describing the timing aspects of each data element.

Data Dictionary (.xlsx, 703 KB)

Technical Documentation

Institution-Level Data Files (.pdf, 520 KB) Field of Study Data Files (.pdf, 827 KB)

Data Errata

Cohort Alignment on Earnings Calculations (.pdf, 476 KB)

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