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Bryan, Michael; Cooney, Darryl; Elliott, Barbara – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
The 2012/17 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:12/17), conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) at the U.S. Department of Education, is the second follow-up of students who began postsecondary education in the 2011-12 academic year. BPS:12/17 draws from the 2011-12 National Postsecondary Student Aid…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Postsecondary Education, Student Financial Aid, School Statistics
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Cataldi, Emily Forrest; Bennett, Christopher T.; Chen, Xianglei – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This Statistics in Brief focuses on students whose parents have not attended college and examines these students' high school success and postsecondary enrollment, persistence and degree completion once they enrolled in college, and graduate school enrollment and employment outcomes after they attained a bachelor's degree. Their outcomes are…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Access to Education, Prior Learning, Academic Persistence
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Velez, Erin Dunlop; Bentz, Alexander; Arbeit, Caren A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
To examine the relationships between beginning public 2-year students' academic progress and labor market participation, this report uses data from the 2012/14 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:12/14). The report explores the demographics, enrollment intensity, and 3-year attainment and persistence of students who started in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Employment, Longitudinal Studies
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Smith, Nichole D.; Duprey, Michael A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2017
The 2015 Federal Student Aid Supplement (FSA Supplement), directed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) at the U.S. Department of Education (ED), is a collection of federal student loan data intended to augment the 1996/01 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:96/01) and the 2004/09 Beginning Postsecondary…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Student Loan Programs
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Wine, Jennifer; Bryan, Michael; Siegel, Peter – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) helps fulfill the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) mandate to collect, analyze, and publish statistics related to education. The purpose of NPSAS is to compile a comprehensive research dataset, based on student-level records, on financial aid…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Student Financial Aid, Institutional Characteristics, Research Methodology
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Wine, Jennifer; Bryan, Michael; Siegel, Peter – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) helps fulfill the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) mandate to collect, analyze, and publish statistics related to education. The purpose of NPSAS is to compile a comprehensive research dataset, based on student-level records, on financial aid…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Student Financial Aid, School Statistics, Institutional Characteristics
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Wine, Jennifer; Bryan, Michael; Siegel, Peter – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
This report describes the methods and results for the 2011-12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12), conducted for the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Washington, DC. The following legislation authorizes this and previous cycles of NPSAS, as well as two longitudinal studies deriving…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Student Financial Aid, Research Methodology, School Statistics
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Staklis, Sandra; Bersudskaya, Vera; Horn, Laura – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
These Web Tables examine the demographic and postsecondary enrollment characteristics of undergraduates who attended for-profit institutions in 2007-08 and present the 6-year outcomes of undergraduates who first enrolled in for-profit postsecondary institutions in 2003-04. Data are presented for all for-profit students and separately for students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Tables (Data), Public Colleges, Private Colleges
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Cominole, Melissa; Wheeless, Sara; Dudley, Kristin; Franklin, Jeff; Wine, Jennifer – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The "2004/06 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/06)" is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to respond to the need for a national, comprehensive database concerning issues students may face in enrollment, persistence, progress, and attainment in postsecondary education and in consequent early rates of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Stopouts, Research Methodology, Data Collection
Hurst, David, Ed.; Smerdon, Becky, Ed. – 2000
This paper summarizes data from several recent surveys of the Department of Education concerning postsecondary students with disabilities. Surveys represented include the 1995-96 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, Postsecondary Education Quick Information System survey (1998), and the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study.…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Disabilities, Enrollment Trends
Wine, Jennifer S.; Whitmore, Roy W.; Heuer, Ruth E.; Biber, Melissa; Pratt, Daniel J. – 2000
This report describes the methods and procedures used for the full-scale data collection effort of the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study First Follow-Up 1996-98 (BPS:96/98). These students, who started their postsecondary education during the 1995-96 academic year, were first interviewed during 1996 as part of the National…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Data Interpretation, Enrollment
Choy, Susan P.; Premo, Mark D. – 1996
This report uses data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study and the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study to examine how low income undergraduates (with family incomes below 125 percent of the federally established poverty threshold) finance their postsecondary education, focusing on the importance of financial aid. The…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Economic Factors, Enrollment Projections, Higher Education
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Wine, Jennifer S.; Heuer, Ruth E.; Wheeless, Sara C.; Francis, Talbric L.; Franklin, Jeff W.; Dudley, Kristin M. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2002
This report describes the methods and procedures used for the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study: 1996-2001 (BPS:1996/2001). These students, who started their postsecondary education during the 1995-96 academic year, were first interviewed in 1996 as part of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:96). A follow-up…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Postsecondary Education, Research Methodology, Interviews
McCormick, Alexander C.; Carroll, C. Dennis – 1997
This report analyzes patterns of undergraduate transfer behavior of students who entered postsecondary education during the academic year 1989-90. Data were derived from the spring 1994 follow-up of the 1990 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study. The report notes that attendance at multiple institutions is widespread: at 4-year…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attendance Patterns, College Attendance, College Credits