Is this data not free from the government?

Yes. The source files are public and we link to them. You pay for the cleaning, the joins, the documented schema and the refresh, not for the data itself.

As Parquet or CSV files, by download link or to your own cloud bucket. The same tables load into Snowflake with the scripts we include. A Snowflake Marketplace listing is being set up and is not live yet.

Can I see the data before paying?

Yes. Ask for a sample and we send the Vermont rows from every table, plus the full data dictionary.

Why are some 2025 columns empty?

When this build ran, NCES had released only its 2025 directory, institutional characteristics, 12-month enrollment and completions files. Fall enrollment, retention, admissions, published charges, net price, financial aid and graduation rates stop at 2024 and are NULL for 2025 until the next rebuild. The 2025 files are provisional releases.

Does it include names of college staff?

No. IPEDS publishes a chief administrator name for each institution. We remove it.

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Every US college: enrollment, cost, completion and earnings

IPEDS 2015 to 2025 and the College Scorecard joined on one institution key, with a consistent yearly history and program-level earnings and debt.

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Coverage: About 5,800 Title IV institutions in the 2025 directory, plus about 470 locations that appear only in the Scorecard. IPEDS survey years 2015 to 2025. 2025 is partial: NCES has released only its directory, institutional characteristics, 12-month enrollment and completions files for that year. The Scorecard is one snapshot, not a yearly history.

Why pay for public data

IPEDS ships as dozens of survey files per year with changing variable names, and Scorecard uses a different layout again. Here both sources share one key, and about 99 percent of 2025 Title IV institutions match a Scorecard row.

How it is built

1
Pull the IPEDS survey components for 2015 to 2024, the 2025 directory, institutional characteristics, 12-month enrollment and completions files, and the College Scorecard institution and field-of-study files.
2
Reconcile variable names across years and join on UNITID. Chief administrator names are removed.
3
Rebuild on each federal release.

What is in each record

Field	Notes
UNITID	Federal institution ID, the join key
INSTNM, CITY, STABBR, ZIP, LATITUDE, LONGITUDE	On INSTITUTIONS, with SECTOR and 164 Scorecard columns prefixed SC_
DATA_YEAR	INSTITUTION_YEAR has one row per institution per year: about 73,000 rows
APPLICANTS, ADMITTED, ENROLLED, ADMIT_RATE, YIELD_RATE
ENR_TOTAL, ENR_UG, ENR_GRAD, ENR_FT, ENR_PT	Fall enrollment, with sex and race breakdowns
TUITION_FEES_IN_STATE, TUITION_FEES_OUT_STATE, NET_PRICE	Net price also by family income band
RETENTION_RATE_FT, GRAD_RATE_150
COMPLETIONS	CIPCODE, AWLEVEL, AWARDS_TOTAL by year: about 3.1 million rows
SCORECARD_FIELD_OF_STUDY	EARN_MDN_1YR, EARN_MDN_4YR and DEBT_ALL_STGP_ANY_MDN by program. About 58,000 programs have 4-year median earnings

Who uses it

EdTech sales and market-sizing teams
Higher-education consultancies and researchers
Institutional research offices benchmarking peers

Pricing

$990 a year for both sources joined.

No personal contact data is collected or sold in any QuestionPunk dataset.

Questions

Is this data not free from the government?: Yes. The source files are public and we link to them. You pay for the cleaning, the joins, the documented schema and the refresh, not for the data itself.
How is it delivered?: As Parquet or CSV files, by download link or to your own cloud bucket. The same tables load into Snowflake with the scripts we include. A Snowflake Marketplace listing is being set up and is not live yet.
Can I see the data before paying?: Yes. Ask for a sample and we send the Vermont rows from every table, plus the full data dictionary.
Why are some 2025 columns empty?: When this build ran, NCES had released only its 2025 directory, institutional characteristics, 12-month enrollment and completions files. Fall enrollment, retention, admissions, published charges, net price, financial aid and graduation rates stop at 2024 and are NULL for 2025 until the next rebuild. The 2025 files are provisional releases.
Does it include names of college staff?: No. IPEDS publishes a chief administrator name for each institution. We remove it.

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