What we have, and what we don’t.
Every active, undergraduate-serving Title-IV institution in the United States, with our latest verdict on whether we have a public Common Data Set archived. The Common Data Set is voluntary; some schools publish openly, some bury it, and some don’t publish at all. This page is an honest accounting of which is which.
LOADING COVERAGE DATA…
Methodology
- The CDS is voluntary.No school is required to publish one, and there’s no central registry. We have to find each one ourselves.
- Our discovery is automated.A resolver fetches each school’s website and looks for CDS-shaped links. It misses sources buried behind logins, JavaScript-only pages, or non-obvious filenames. No public CDS foundmeans the resolver tried and didn’t see one — not that the school doesn’t publish one.
- Not checked yetmeans we know the school exists and is in scope, but our resolver hasn’t scanned it. Coverage refreshes every 15 minutes from College Scorecard; the directory expands faster than discovery does.
- Federal data is older than CDS.Scorecard uses two-year-old cohorts; the most recent CDS is the current academic year. They answer different questions and shouldn’t be compared directly.
- Know where one of these is published? Click into the school page and send us the link. We’ll archive it. This page is how we make the gaps visible — not a final word.