Data Sources

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IPEDS Complete Data Files: institutional directory (HD2024) and academic-year charges (IC2023_AY)

• Publisher: U.S. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
• Dataset page: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data
• Charges: IC2023_AY (academic-year charges for the 2023-24 academic year). Directory: HD2024 (institutional directory, 2024-25 collection). Retrieved 2026-11-09. IPEDS status: file published by NCES on 2024-08-20; provisional/final status not independently confirmed.
• Files: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip and https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/IC2023_AY.zip
• Terms: the NCES/IES website states that its content is in the public domain and may be reproduced, published or linked to without permission, with a request to cite the source (IES website policies). No NCES, IES or Department of Education logo or seal is used.
• The 2024-25 charges moved to the new IPEDS Cost (CST) component, scheduled as provisional data in the winter 2024-25 release; no downloadable file was found on 2026-11-09, so 2023-24 is the latest charges year used.

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