The short answer: There were 3,982 degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the U.S. as of the 2019-2020 school year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. The long ...

The data on timely completion comes from the National Center for Education Statistics. The four-year-college graduation rate metric is one of many that factor into the overall Best States rankings.

The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) was established to help the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) meet its mandate to report full and complete statistics on the ...

The whittling down of the exam schedule comes after President Donald Trump’s administration cut almost the entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, the division of the ...