Institutional Examples:Links to Common Data Sets

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The Common Data Set (CDS) initiative is a collaborative effort among college and university data providers and selected college guide publishers to standardize the data provided to the guides by the individual institutions.  Despite the initiative's name, CDS is not a set of data but rather an agreed-upon list of data items and definitions.  For more details, visit the CDS Initiative Web site.  The CDS items are grouped into 10 categories:

  • General Information


  • Student Life


  • Enrollment and Persistence


  • Annual Expenses


  • First-time, First-year Admission


  • Financial Aid


  • Transfer Admission


  • Faculty and Class Size


  • Academic Offerings and Policies


  • Degrees Conferred


Since the CDS information is basically intended for public use, increasing numbers of colleges and universities are putting their CDS data on their Web sites.  This is important and useful data for a wide range of audiences -- certainly for prospective students and their families, but also for higher education funding organizations, news media representatives, and others.

Assembled below are links to the Common Data Set data at a wide range of private colleges and universities.

 

Alabama:Spring Hill College
California:Santa Clara University
Connecticut:University of Hartford
Florida:Florida Institute of Technology
Indiana:Earlham College
Kansas:Benedictine College
Kentucky:Thomas More College
Maine:Bates College
New York:Cornell University Hamilton College

North Carolina:Elon University
Ohio:Oberlin College
Pennsylvania:Bucknell University

University of Scranton
Tennessee:Belmont University

Fisk University
TexasBaylor University

Our Lady of the Lake University
Virginia:Bridgewater College Washington & Lee University

Washington:Seattle Pacific University