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Soldner, Matthew – National Postsecondary Education Cooperative, 2017
The U.S. Department of Education's (ED's) National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) is the nation's preeminent source of information on how students and their families pay for college. This paper explores how NCES can leverage linkages to federal and non-federal data sources to improve…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Tuition, Postsecondary Education, Higher Education
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Ramirez, Nestor Alexis; Lacy, Austin; Duprey, Michael; Jones, Anthony – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2019
The resources needed to conduct high-quality and large-scale survey research are often beyond the reach of institutional researchers and higher education analysts. However, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) provides many national student surveys that researchers can utilize. We outline four NCES studies--the High School…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Financial Aid, National Surveys, Student Surveys
Berkner, Lutz; He, Shirley; Cataldi, Emily Forrest – 2002
This report describes the enrollment, persistence, and degree attainment of students who began postsecondary education for the first time in the 1995-1996 academic year. It covers the experiences of these first-time beginners over a period of 6 academic years, from 1995-1996 to 2000-2001, and provides information about the rates at which students…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Career Education
Horn, Laura; Berktold, Jennifer – 1999
This comprehensive profile of students with disabilities enrolled in postsecondary education is based on four national surveys which examined the following questions: (1) how represented are students with disabilities in postsecondary education?; (2) which high school students with disabilities gain access to postsecondary education?; (3) how well…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Bachelors Degrees, College Outcomes Assessment, College Students
Kaufman, Phillip; Chen, Xianglei – 1999
This report uses data from the third follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 and the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study to project postsecondary outcomes of the high school class of 1992. Specifically, the study tracked, over a four-year period, the paths of college-qualified students who first enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Asian Americans, Bachelors Degrees, Black Students
Berkner, Lutz; Horn, Laura; Clune, Michael – 2000
This report, part of the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, provides information about the three-year persistence and degree attainment of students who began their postsecondary education in 1995-96, with a primary focus on students who started at less-than-4-year institutions. The report finds that many of the differences in the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Career Education