The National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC) of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) commissioned this research paper to examine the postsecondary certificate program landscape and to extend the 2012 NPEC report, "Defining and Reporting Subbaccalaureate Certificates in IPEDS", which clearly identified several problems with collecting and reporting data on certificates. This research set out to answer the following research questions: (1) what is the current landscape of postsecondary certificate programs? (2) how well does the IPEDS Completions survey capture the current landscape of eligible postsecondary certificate programs? and (3) If the IPEDS Completions survey does not reflect the current postsecondary landscape, how can it improved? [To view the 2012 report, see ED571823.]