| Submission Year | Reporting Criteria | Comments | Type |
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| 2024-25Changes to reporting: | The following changes have been made for 2025-26 collection:Added Part A – Screening QuestionsExpanded Part B to collect admissions considerations information for transfer-in were implemented for the 2024-25 data collection period: - Revised FAQ about “non-first-time” degree/certificate-seeking students at institutions that do not have an open admission policy and for students in program(s) with admissions requirements at institutions that are primarily open admission but have at least one program that is not open admission (if applicable).
- Added two admissions considerations for transfer-in students in Part B (if applicable).
- Expanded Part C to collect applicants, admits, and enrolled counts for transfer-in degree/certificate-seeking students at institutions that do not have an open admission policy and for students in program(s) with admissions requirements at institutions that are primarily open admission but have at least one program that is not open admission (if applicable).
- Expanded Part C to disaggregate applicants, admits, and enrolled counts by race/ethnicity and full-time/part-time enrollment status.
- Expanded Part D to collect test score information for transfer-in degree/certificate-seeking students at institutions that do not have an open admission policy (if applicable).
- Added Part E – Waitlist, Early Decision, and Early Action (if applicable).
| | - undergraduate students.
- Added a new FAQ to better clarify the relationship between “transfer-in” enrollment status on the Fall Enrollment (EF) and 12-month Enrollment (E12)
components and the “non-first-time” cohort on the Outcome Measures (OM) component. - Added a new example to FAQ about students who change from non-degree/non-certificate-seeking to degree/certificate-seeking at the IPEDS reporting institution.
- Added additional information to FAQ about resources for tracking subsequent enrollment.
- Revised definition for “Non-first-time student (undergraduate)” Glossary term to improve clarity.
| Change |
| 2023-24 | The following changes were implemented for the 2023-24 data collection period:
Revised survey materials related to Gender Unknown or Another Gender reporting, including non-reporting for small cell size
Added a clarification to Instructions regarding reporting test scores
Added FAQ regarding including incarcerated students in reporting
Revised FAQ regarding experimental site participants |
| Changes Change |
| 2022-23 | The following changes were implemented for the 2022-23 data collection period:
Two new admission considerations have been added
The options for how institutions use the admission considerations have changed
There is now a "50th percentile (median)" for test scores
References to "summer term" have been changed to "summer session"
Added information to not report test percentiles when there are less than 5 students
FAQ #3 revised to clarify how to report applicants that were considered for admission
The consideration of 'TOEFL' scores was expanded to ‘English Proficiency Test’ scores to cover the range of options available to institutions NCES has added a column for Institutions to report 'Another gender' in Applicants/Admissions/Enrollees |
| ChangesChange |
| 2022-23 | Report data to accurately reflect the time period corresponding with the IPEDS survey component, even if such reporting is seemingly inconsistent with prior- year reporting. Institutions that have scores based on the old (2017) SAT score range should convert scores using the College Board concordance tables. Institutions operating on a traditional academic year calendar (semester, trimester, quarter, or 4-1-4) report admissions as of the institution's official fall reporting date or October 15. Institutions operating on an "other academic calendar”, a calendar that differs by program, or that enrolls students on a continuous basis (referred to as program reporters) report admissions as students who enroll any time during the period of August 1 through October 31. ADM is only applicable to first-time students; DO NOT include other students (i.e., transfer-in students ) in the number of applicants, number of admits, and number (of admitted) that enrolled. Only include levels (full-time, part-time) that you indicated were offered in the IC Header. If you made an error in the IC Header, please call the IPEDS Help Desk. |
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| 2021-22 | New FAQ has been added to clarify reporting AdmissionsConsiderations if the institution has a test-optional admission policy. Revised FAQ to clarify how to report first-time students in the fall term with prior summer enrollment. |
| Change |
| 2021-22 | Report data to accurately reflect the time period corresponding with the IPEDS survey component, even if such reporting is seemingly inconsistent with prior-year reporting. For example, if a summer term began later than usual due to to Coronavirus Pandemic postponements, continue to report using the timeframes as defined in the IPEDS instructions. NCES expects that some data reported during the 2020-21 data collection year will vary from established prior trends due to the impacts of Coronavirus Pandemic. If an error edit is triggered even when submitting accurate data, please indicate in the corresponding context box or verbally to the Help Desk that the seemingly inconsistent data are accurate and reflect the effects of Coronavirus Pandemic. Institutions that have scores based on the old (2015) SAT score range should convert scores using the College Board concordance tables Institutions operating on a traditional academic year calendar (semester, trimester, quarter, or 4-1-4) report admissions as of the institution's official fall reporting date or October 15. Institutions operating on an "other academic calendar”, a calendar that differs by program, or that enrolls students on a continuous basis (referred to as program reporters) report admissions as students who enroll any time during the period of August 1 through October 31. ADM is only applicable to first-time entering students; do not include other students in the number of applicants, number of admits, and number (of admitted) that enrolled. Only include levels (full-time, part-time) that you indicated were offered in the IC Header. If you made an error in the IC Header, please call the IPEDS Help Desk. |
| Reminder |
| 2020-21 | Report data to accurately reflect the time period corresponding with the IPEDS survey component, even if such reporting is seemingly inconsistent with prior-year reporting. For example, if a summer term began later than usual due to to Coronavirus Pandemic postponements, continue to report using the timeframes as defined in the IPEDS instructions. NCES expects that some data reported during the 2020-21 data collection year will vary from established prior trends due to the impacts of Coronavirus Pandemic. If an error edit is triggered even when submitting accurate data, please indicate in the corresponding context box or verbally to the Help Desk that the seemingly inconsistent data are accurate and reflect the effects of Coronavirus Pandemic. |
| Reminder |
| 2020-21 | Institutions that have scores based on the old (2015) SAT score range should convert scores using the College Board concordance tables |
| Reminder |
| 2020-21 | Institutions operating on a traditional academic year calendar (semester, trimester, quarter, or 4-1-4) report admissions as of the institution's official fall reporting date or October 15. Institutions operating on an "other academic calendar”, a calendar that differs by program, or that enrolls students on a continuous basis (referred to as program reporters) report admissions as students who enroll any time during the period of August 1 through October 31. |
| Reminder |
| 2020-21 | ADM is only applicable to first-time entering students; do not include other students in the number of applicants, number of admits, and number (of admitted) that enrolled. Only include levels (full-time, part-time) that you indicated were offered in the IC Header. If you made an error in the IC Header, please call the IPEDS Help Desk. |
| Reminder |