The Colleges and Universities feature class/shapefile is composed of all Post Secondary Education facilities as defined by the Integrated Post Secondary Education System (IPEDS, http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/), National Center for Education Statistics (NCES, https://nces.ed.gov/), US Department of Education for the 2018-2019 school year. Included are Doctoral/Research Universities, Masters Colleges and Universities, Baccalaureate Colleges, Associates Colleges, Theological seminaries, Medical Schools and other health care professions, Schools of engineering and technology, business and management, art, music, design, Law schools, Teachers colleges, Tribal colleges, and other specialized institutions. Overall, this data layer covers all 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico and other assorted U.S. territories. This feature class contains all MEDS/MEDS+ as approved by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP) Team. Complete field and attribute information is available in the ”Entities and Attributes” metadata section. Geographical coverage is depicted in the thumbnail above and detailed in the "Place Keyword" section of the metadata. This feature class does not have a relationship class but is related to Supplemental Colleges. Colleges and Universities that are not included in the NCES IPEDS data are added to the Supplemental Colleges feature class when found. This release includes the addition of 175 new records, the removal of 468 no longer reported by NCES, and modifications to the spatial location and/or attribution of 6682 records.

This statistic indicates the length of programs at top U.S. business graduate schools for physician executives based on the 2013-2014 school year. The University of Colorado at Denver program required 24 months.

For the academic year of 2024/2025, the University of Oxford was ranked as the best university in the world, with an overall score of 98.5 according the Times Higher Education. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University followed behind. A high number of the leading universities in the world are located in the United States, with the ETH Zürich in Switzerland the highest ranked neither in the United Kingdom nor the U.S.

This statistic indicates the number of full-time students attending top U.S. business graduate schools for physician executives based on the 2013-2014 school year. During that year, there were 60 full-time students attending University of Colorado at Denver. This university offered an MBA degree.

In the academic year of 2020/21, about 202,334 Master's degrees were earned in business across the United States, making it the most common master's degree earned. In that same year, another 47,257 Master's degrees were earned in engineering.

In the academic year of 2022, it is expected that 551,460 female and 331,530 male students will earn a Master’s degree in the United States. These figures are a significant increase from the academic year of 1950, when 16,980 female students and 41,220 male students earned a Master’s degree.

What is a Master’s degree?

A Master’s degree is an academic degree granted by universities after finishing a Bachelor’s degree. Master’s degrees focus in on a specific field and are more specialized than a Bachelor’s. A typical Master’s program is about two years long, with the final semester focusing on the thesis. Master’s degree programs are usually harder to get into than Bachelor’s degree programs, due to the rigor of the program. Because these programs are so competitive, those with a Master’s degree are typically paid more than those with a Bachelor’s degree.

Master’s degrees in the United States

The number of master’s degrees granted in the United States has steadily increased since the 1970s and is expected to continue to increase. In 2021, the Master’s degree program with the worst job prospects in the United States by mid-career median pay was counseling, while the program with the best job prospects was a physician's assistant.

This dataset is about universities, featuring 15 columns including address, city, country, description, and domain. The preview is ordered by total students (descending).

The top-ranked university in the United States in 2024 according to Forbes was Princeton University in New Jersey. Students at Princeton graduate with an average debt of 7,559 U.S. dollars, but have a median 10-year salary of 189,400 U.S. dollars. The Forbes rankings are based on several categories, including alumni salary, student debt, graduation rate, return on investment, retention rate, and academic success.

Data on the top universities for Physical Sciences in 2025, including disciplines such as Chemistry, Geology, and Physics & Astronomy.

Data on the top universities for Law in 2025.

Finding Schools is now easier than ever with the College Map, the first geographic search tool published by IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) providing access to over 7,000 certificate, undergraduate and graduate-level schools. This all-in-one tool enables students, parents and counselors to filter potential programs for location, major, tuition and more. Including both certificate-level programs and advanced degrees, this public application makes the often overwhelming process of school searching simple, and it’s available on mobile devices.

Once the results are narrowed down, users can share their lists on social media or download in excel format. Additionally, the College Map integrates with the College Navigator, a research based search tool providing data from the complete list of IPEDS Survey indicators.

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The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) is a classification of academic and research-related institutions ranked by a composite indicator that combines three different sets of indicators based on research performance, innovation outputs and societal impact measured by their web visibility. It provides a friendly interface that allows the visualization of any customized ranking from the combination of these three sets of indicators. Additionally, it is possible to compare the trends for individual indicators of up to six institutions. For each large sector it is also possible to obtain distribution charts of the different indicators. For comparative purposes, the value of the composite indicator has been set on a scale of 0 to 100. However the line graphs and bar graphs always represent ranks (lower is better, so the highest values are the worst).

This horizontal bar chart displays graduate students (people) by university using the aggregation sum. The data is about universities.

Objective: Describe the current situation of the area Medicine III of CAPES and detect challenges for the next four years of evaluation. Methods: The area's documents and reports of meetings were read from 2004 to 2013 Medicine III Capes as well as reports and evaluation form of each Postgraduate Program (PPG) of the area and the sub-page of the area from the Capes website. The data relating to the evaluation process, the assessment form and faculty, student and scientific production data of all of Post-Graduate Programs of Medicine III were computed and analyzed. From these data were detected the challenges of the area for the next four years (2013-2016). Results: Among the 3,806 PPG, Medicine III had 41 PPG during last triennial evaluation and progressed from 18% to 43% of PPG very good or more concept (triennium 2001-2003 and 2010-2012). Most PPG were located in the South-East region (32), three in the South and two in the North-East. There was no PPG in North or Central-West regions. In 2013 and 2014 there were four approved Professional Master Degree Programs and one Master (M) and Doctorate (PhD). The average of permanent professors was 558 teachers with about three students/professor. The number of PhD graduates has increased as well as the reason PhD/MD. The proportion of in high impact periodicals (A1, A2, B1 and B2) jumped from 30% to 50% demonstrating positive community response to the policy area. The challenges identified were: decrease regional asymmetry, increase the number of masters and doctors of excellence, reassessment of Brazilian journals, stimulate and set internationalization indicators, including post-doctors and definition of its indicators, the PPG nucleation analysis, PPG 3x3, include primary and secondary education, professional master and indicators of technological scientific production and solidarity. Conclusion: Medicine III has been scientifically consolidated and their scientific researchers demonstrated maturity reaching a high level and matched to areas of greatest tradition and history. For the maintenance and advancement of the area some challenges and goals were established to be developed in the period from 2013 to 2016.

Updated yearly using enrollment data, employment data, information from websites, phone calls, and any other resources as available. At time of update fields were added to include employment data, enrollment data, building code, school code, TAZ08, and school website. Please verify information before use as it will be updated on an ongoing basis. Please contact COMPASS with any questions or any knowledge of updates, alterations or modifications that need to be made. FIELDS:UpdateBy: Name or initials of last person to update the recordUpdateOn: Date the record was last updated onSchoolName: Name of the school at the pointSchoolDist: School district the point physically is withinType: Describes the nature of the building and grade/age range of students enrolledValues:PRE K: Preschool &/or Nursery school & Day CareELEMENTARY: Traditional Kindergarten through 6thgradeK-8: Kindergarten through 8th gradeK-12: Kindergarten through 12th grade MIDDLE: 6thgrade through 8thgradeJUNIOR HS: 7thgrade through 9th gradeSENIOR HS: 9th through 12thgradePOST SR: College, University, Technical or Professional SchoolsOTHER: Irregular range of grades or ages ADMIN: Administrative Building/ServicesRETAIL-EDU: Retailor or seller of educational materials or suppliesSiteAddres: Physical address of the school or buildingSiteCity: City the school or building is located inSiteState: State the school or building is located inSiteZip: Zip code the school or building is located inSiteCounty: County the school or building is located inBuilding_Code: Building Code assigned to the school according to the 2012 Enrollment data sheet, where the number is not available or this does not apply the value used is ‘N/A’School_Code:School Code assigned to the school according to the 2012 Enrollment data sheet, where the number is not available or this does not apply the value used is ‘N/A’School_JoinID: Concatonated field of Building Code + School Code as a 7 digit code assigned by the 2012 Enrollment data sheet. If the School Code is only a three digit code an additional ‘0’ is added before the code to achieve the full seven digits necessary for the field. Where the number is not available or this does not apply the value used is ‘N/A’Notes: Any pertinent information that was not suited for another fieldEmploy13:Number of employees according to the 2013 employment final point fileTAZ08: TAZ08 in which the point liesType_II:Describes the nature of the school – public vs private runValues:PUBLIC: Owned, operated, funded, governed and sanctioned by the Idaho Department of EducationPRIVATE: Owned, operated & funded by private donors, foundation, trust or other source. May or may not meet State or Federal curriculum requirements/standardsOPT_ENROLL: Y/N field indicating if there is an open enrollment boundary for the schoolType_III:Any further information or description about the school. Values:AG PRODUCTION & RESEARCH: U of I extension campuses with specific research focus and use intentionALTERNATIVE: Any alternative learning environment, field may contain a ‘-_’ for a further description about what the alternative style is; teen parents, night school, at risk, ect…CHARTER: Any public school classified as a charter by the State Board of EducationCOLLEGE, UNIVERSITY, TRADE SCHOOL: Any post-secondary education institution, includes graduate programs, law schools and vocational training programs.COMMUNITY EDUCATION – ENVIRONMENTAL: Nontraditional classroom facilities which offer courses for the community (child and adult) to promote higher learning and understanding of the environment, care of the environment and environmental issues.CULTURAL: Any school which offers cultural enrichment or a multi-cultural learning environment. Field may also contain ‘-_’ to describe what the specific culture the school educates in.DURRING INCARCERATION: Schools are run through the Juvenile Detention Centers. These schools are acknowledged by the State Department of Education, and are recognized by the State. Available to students during the time of their incarceration. FAITH BASED: Any school run by or affiliated with a religious organization or faith based system of beliefs, and incorporates values and beliefs into the curriculum.FAITH BASED BOARDING: Any school run by or affiliated with a religious organization or faith based system of beliefs, and incorporates values and beliefs into the curriculum. These school also offer a live in facility option to students.HEADSTART: Formal pre-kindergarten education programsINTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE: School which offers programs for International Baccalaureate credit for studentsLANGUAGE AND CULTURE: Private (non-charter) language and culture focused schools. Field may also contain ‘-_’ to describe what the specific culture the school educates in.MAGNET: Any school with a particular subject area focus intended to draw students with natural aptitudes or specific interests, these schools have open enrollment boundaries with an application process, as long as the student resides within the school district to which the school is a part of. MONTESSORI: Private schools with a focus on experiential learning rather than traditional learning methods. MUSIC: Schools with an additional focus on musical aptitude and methodsONLINE OR HOME SCHOOL: Virtual or online classroom optionsSPECIAL NEEDS: Schools with facilities and resources for students with special needs or additional assistance and attention. Access: Indicates whether the point is the actual building location itself or an access point. Building locations are coded as "Loc" and access points are coded as "PV" for pedestrian/vehicle access.Main_Acc: Identifies if an access point is the main entrance/exit location for each school.Source: Where the numbers for the employment data and/or student enrollment were gathered from.Enrollment: # of students enrolled according to the 2012 enrollment data, or based on best information we were otherwise able to obtain (if not on the 2012 enrollment data).Website:Most recent URL if able to locate, if unable to locate indicated in field with “UTL”Status: Used to describe if the school is currently active, closed, or planned (used to query out inactive schools for performance monitoring purposes)UniqueID: Made by combining District number and building number in from DDDBBBB. _Updated Fall 2013 From School District WebsitesUpdated 9/11/11 From School District WebsitesJuly 2010 . Canyon County has since requested a new data structure to match their address points. The new schools file has the new structure. The point location of this file is identical to the new schools point file May 2010 - Edited the Ada County schools to align with school sites on NAIP imagery and confirmed schools against respective school district websites Jan - March 2010 - Worked with Jay Young over a several month period and several renditions to reconcile the Canyon County side of this file. December 2009 - Merged with Jay Young's Canyon point file in order to build a new data structure that meets Emergency Service data standards. Went through point by point to ensure alignement with buildings on NAIP imagery and attribute values.

The Project Information Literacy (PIL) lifelong learning survey dataset was produced as part of a two-year federally funded study on relatively recent US college graduates and their information-seeking behavior for continued learning. The goal of the survey was to collect quantitative data about the information-seeking behavior of a sample of recent graduates—the strategies, techniques, information support systems, and best practices—used to support lifelong learning in post-college life. The dataset contains responses from 1,651 respondents to a 21-item questionnaire administered between October 9, 2014 and December 15, 2014. The voluntary sample of respondents consisted of relatively recent graduates, who had completed their degrees between 2007 and 2012, from one of 10 US colleges and universities in the institutional sample. Quantitative data are included in the dataset about the learning needs of relatively recent graduates as well as the information sources they used in three arenas of their post-college lives (i.e., personal life, workplace, and the communities in which they resided). Demographic information—including age, gender, major, GPA, employment status, graduate school attendance, and geographic proximity of current residence to their alma mater—is also included in the dataset for the respondents. "Staying Smart: How Today's Graduates Continue to Learn Once They Complete College," Alison J. Head, Project Information Literacy Research Report, Seattle: University of Washington Information School (January 5, 2016), 112 pages, 6.9 MB.

Data relating to: proceeds of the student contribution, total and partial exemptions, distribution of students by class of amount of the contribution, number and expenditure of interventions in favor of students provided by the university (excluding the right to regional study), canteens and university residences directly managed by the university. A.A. 2016/17, A.S. 2016, structural data from 1/11/2017. Reference is made to students in good standing with the payment of fees due to universities.

The University of Cambridge was listed as the best university in the United Kingdom in 2025 with an overall score of 1000, compared with the University of Oxford, which came in second-place with a score of 965.