EXTERNAL

DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS

General:

• American Council on Education (ACE) and the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Publications such as: Measuring Quality: Choosing Among Surveys and Other Assessments of College Quality
• Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
  
• The Chronicle of Higher Education Facts & Figures 
  
• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and their Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
  
• PEW Research Center - Education

Financial Aid and Pricing:

• The College Board: Trends in Student Aid
• The College Board: Trends in College Pricing
• United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States (Formerly Titled - Money Income in the United States)

Implication Studies:

• United States Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
  

Retention:

• United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census: Educational Attainment in the United States

Racial and Ethnic Diversity:

• Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE): Projections of High School Graduates by Race and Ethnicity

Students:

• Center for Post Secondary Research at Indiana University: National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)
• The College Board: Report on College Bound Seniors
• Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)/Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP): The American Freshman, National Norms and Your First College Year Survey, as well as The College Senior Survey
  

COMPETITION TRENDS

Financial Reports & Statistics:

• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
  
• Internal Revenue Service Facts & Figures (IRS)
  
• National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO)
  
• The Center at the University of Florida's Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance

Guidebooks Featuring College Profiles & Statistics: 

• Barron's: Profiles of American Colleges
• The College Board: The College Handbook, and Financial Aid Handbook
  
• Niche formerly College Prowler
  
• Fiske: The Fiske Guide to Colleges
• Peterson's: Guide to Four Year Colleges, and Guide to Competitive Colleges
• The Princeton Review: The Best 382 Colleges
• U.S. News & World Report: Best Colleges and Best Graduate Schools
• Yale Insider's Guide to Colleges

Organizations Ranking Colleges & Related Statistics: (Organizations are listed once for conciseness, although some like U.S. News publish dozens of different rankings for both undergraduate and graduate programs.)

National

• The Alumni Factor
• Bloomberg Business Week
• Business Insider
• Center for College Affordability & Productivity (dual publish with Forbes)
• College Atlas
• College Choice
• College Factual
• College Raptor
  
• Forbes
• Kiplinger
• Lend.edu
• Money Magazine
• National Research Council
• NCAA
• Nerd Wallet
• New York Times
  
• Niche-College Prowler
• Parchment
• Payscale.com
• Peace Corps
• Princeton Review
• Rate My Professor
• Teach for America
  
• Unigo
• U.S. News & World Report
• ValueColleges.com
• Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education U.S. Rankings
  
• Washington Monthly
• Webometrics Ranking of United States Universities

International

• Center for World University Rankings
  
• Financial Times
• Leiden/Centre for Science & Technology World University Rankings
• QS Top University Rankings and Subject Rankings
  
• Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities
• SIR Schimago Institution Ranks
• Times Higher Education World University Rankings
• U-Multirank
• U.S. News & World Report Global University Rankings
• Webometrics Ranking of World Universities

Guide

• The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Guide to College and University Rankings. Comprehensive guide to all national, international, and subject specific sources of rankings, along with annotated bibliography of articles about rankings and the merits for/against them.

Research & Consulting Firms With Higher Education Focus or Division

• Bain
• Eduventures / NRCCUA
  
• Huron Education
• Maguire Associates
• McKinsey & Company
• Ruffalo Noel-Levitz

FACULTY TRENDS

Background Information:

• Higher Education Research Institute (HERI): Undergraduate Teaching Faculty Survey

Performance & Effectiveness: 

• National Center for Higher Education Management Systems: Institutional Performance Survey

Salary & Career Data:

• American Association of University Professors (AAUP): Economic Status of the Profession Report. The Faculty Salary Data is also republished from this report in The Chronicle of Higher Education in sortable tables.
• College and University Personnel Association (CUPA): Salary Surveys for Faculty and Administrators in Higher Education

Assessment of Programs or Students:

• Center for Post Secondary Research at Indiana University: Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE)
• Educational Testing Service: Program Self-Assessment Services

INTERNAL

(Please note, in cooperation with the University's Data Security Policy, the majority of data files listed below are restricted access to employees with the proper data security clearance required for their job.  Data files are NOT available to students/faculty doing research.  They should instead refer to the Fact Book & related data tables on the Fact Book website.)

General:

• The Boston College Fact Book

Prospects:

• The College Board: Student Search Service & Enrollment Planning Service
  

Inquiries:

• Office of Undergraduate Admission: Inquiry Data File (current admission cycle)
• Enrollment Management Office: Inquiry Data File Backups (previous admission cycles) 

Applicants:

• Office of Undergraduate Admission: Application Data File (current admission cycle)
• Enrollment Management Office: Application Data File Backups (previous admission cycles)

Accepted Students:

• Office of Undergraduate Admission: Application Data File (current admission cycle)
• Enrollment Management Office: Application Data File Backups (previous admission cycles)
• Enrollment Management Office: Admitted Student Questionnaire
  

Entering Students and Current Students:

• Office of Institutional Research: Freshman Survey
• Office of Institutional Research: Senior Survey
• Office of Institutional Research: Career Survey
• Office of Institutional Research: Student Engagement Survey
  
• Office of Student Services: Student File Snapshots
• Office of Student Services: Student Data File
• Office of Student Services: Student Services Satisfaction Survey

Parents:

• Office of Student Services: Parent Services Satisfaction Survey

Alumni:

• Alumni Association Database
• Career Center
• Offices of Marketing Communications and University Relations Survey
• Office of Student Services: Student Data File

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