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Last updated on November 15,
2018
United States
- Census
of Educational Services -
2002
- First reports under the North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS 61)
- Establishments, employees, receipts and payrolls of specialized
schools: business, computer, flight training, fine arts,
language, automobile driving
- College and universities (NAICS 6113) is not included
- State reports have data for the state, MSAs, counties and cities
- National and state reports complete
- Data Ferret
(BLS/Census)
- Data sets from the Current
Population Survey and Survey of Income and Program
Participation for easy or expert manipulation
- Surveys update and enhance the Decennial Census with national, state,
and metropolitan area information
- Subjects include income, poverty, employment, education, health
insurance, housing, aging, household and marital status
- Income, poverty and health insurance were the trial data sets as of
May 31, 1997
- Earnings by
Occupation and Education: 1990
- Median hourly earnings, annual earnings, and number of hours worked
for 514 individual occupations by age, race, sex, and educational attainment
- Subject report from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing
- Data for the United States, States, CMSAs, MSAs, and PMSAs
- Documents Center CD-ROM Do35a-c
- There is no equivalent for the 2000 Census
- Education
Department Grants
- Grants, contracts, and other funding opportunities from the U.S.
Department of Education
- Searchable by subject, applicant eligibility, type of assistance,
and level of education
- Information includes program description, legislative authority,
eligibility, appropriations, and contact information
- A subset of the larger Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance
- Equal Employment
Opportunity File: 2000
- Special tabulation for states, places, and counties or county groups
of 50,000+
- Detailed occupation by sex and race tabulated for workplaces and
residences
- Educational attainment by sex, race and AGE
- ERIC
- Indexes educational reports and journals since 1966 by author, title,
keyword, thesaurus phrase and report number since 1996
- Full text reports (not journal articles) available, 1993+ (beginning Oct. 1,
2004)
- FedStats
- Comprehensive listing to statistical programs of over 70 federal
government agencies
- Arranged by agency or program; includes explanatory material and contacts
- Search engine indexes individual statistical tables
by keyword or agency and provides direct connection
- International
Archive of Education Data (ICPSR)
- Web site under development as of April 1999
- To provide user-friendly interface to cross tabulations of microdata
from the National Center for Education Statistics
- Uses data analysis system developed at Berkeley
- Sample project is Monitoring the Future: 12th Grade
Survey, 1995
- Demographic characteristics of 12th grade students combined with
attitudes toward education, religion, military survey, and substance abuse
- Sample Search
- Click on Browse Codebook
- Choose Standard Variables
- Determine the variables you want (e.g. v150 is gender and v184
includes plans to attend graduate school)
- Go back to main screen and choose Run Frequency
- Choose columns and rows (e.g. v184 for rows; v150 for
columns); choose percentages (e.g. column percentages)
- Run Table
- Michigan
Department of Education
- National
Assessment of Educational Progress [Nation's Report
Card/NCES]
- Extensive reports on national and state test scores of 4th, 8th, and
12th grade students by various demographic characteristics
- Separate surveys on science, mathematics, history, geography
- Summary report includes percent reaching average by state and race
or gender
- All publications in Adobe Acrobat
- A bibliography lists
published NAEP documents since 1970
- National Center for
Education Statistics (US)
- Web server has the full text of the Digest of Education
Statistics and
Condition of
Education
- National data on schools, enrollment, and outcomes for all levels of
education
- On-line data is located under two sections of the main menu:
Enyclopedia of ED Stats and
Survey and Program Areas
- Elementary, secondary, and higher education statistics; library, literacy, and
international statistics
- Includes the Schools Staffing Survey and
Integrated Post-Secondary Education Survey
- Also includes codebooks and press releases
- Most information only available in Adobe Acrobat or compressed
(zipped) format
- Historic data appears on the Bureau of Education Bulletins;
see bibliography for lists
and locations
- National
Educational Longitudinal Survey (NCES)
- Survey follows elementary school cohorts in 1988 through high school,
dropout, post-secondary education, or the workforce
- Interviews with students, teachers, and parents to determine success
factors
- Web site provides Data Analysis System for using data on a personal
computer
- Link to its gopher provides press releases in text format or
zipped files
- Technical Documentation for corresponding CD-ROM converted to HTML by Michelle Harvey of Documents Center staff
- National
Household Education Survey (NCES)
- Biennial survey since 1991 on various educational topics
- Includes adult education, civic involvement, early childhood
education, library use, parental involvement, and school violence
- Web site provides questionnaires and subject item matrices
- PDF copies of resulting reports are accessed through NHES
Publications on the menu
- Peterson's Education
Center
- Basic enrollment, endowment, and financial data for colleges and
private K-12 schools
- Information on public K-12 schools under development but national
summary data on the number of schools, pupils, cost, and computers
- State
Master
- Rank states from best to worst using a series of pull-down menus
- Broad categories include crime, economics, education, health,
housing, immigration, labor, and demographics
- Some of the more "unusual data" includes the number of illegal
immigrants, electrocutions v. lethal injections, students scoring above
average on 4th grad math, alligator attacks and flu shots, and state
birds
- Data can be illustrated with a bar graph, pie chart, or map (e.g.
map of states with the largest number of Albanian refugees
- Statistical
Abstract of the United States
- Compendium of government and non-government statistics, primarily on
the national and state levels
- Population and vital statistics, health, economics, education,
manufacturing, natural resources, transportation, and U.S. Industrial
Outlook (production and foreign trade by four-digit SIC for past six years)
- Full text available in Adobe Acrobat format
- State rankings and state/county profiles in HTML format
- The full text of Statistical Abstract is available in most University
of Michigan campus libraries as HA 202
- Statistical
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974;
business, association and state government data since 1980, and
international agencies since 1983
- Access through the Search Abstracts menu
- Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity
indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign
country, by age, by disease)
- Sample Search: educational attainment and by
state
- About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
- For items not hot-linked:
- Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to
the Documents Center for the microfiche version OR search the title in Google
- Tables and Figures Search
(NCES)
- Combined search for tables in major statistical compendia
- Includes Digest of Education Statistics, Condition of Education,
Projections of Educational Statistics, Youth Indicators, Education
Indicators: An International Perspective, Education in States and
Nations
- Sample searches: earnings and graduation, earnings and women and
Germany
International
- Education
for All: 2009 (UNESCO)
- Extensive report on educational reform for 180 individual countries
in the 1990s and early 21st century
- Population data throughout the 1990s includes total
population, marital status, crime, children with handicaps, income and
poverty
- School data includes enrollment, number of schools, and educational
facilities
- EURYBASE:
European Community Data Base on Education
- Extensive descriptive information on the educational systems of EU
member countries
- Covers from pre-elementary through higher education and special education
- Includes statistical data at the end of each section
- GenderStats
(World Bank)
- National-level statistical data on poverty, education, health, labor force,
and political participation broken down by gender
- Approach data by country and then theme or via the country profiles
- Global
Education Database Online (USAID)
- Includes data from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics and USAID's
Demographic & Health Surveys
- UNESCO data 1970 to 1998, about 200 countries includes three levels
of education, educational outcomes (e.g. literacy), life expectancy and
population
- USAID data 1984 to present, 60 developing countries, includes
attendance, gender equity, and educational attainment
- Data can be combined to make a country profile
- Data can be downloaded in html, Excel spreadsheet or Word table
- International
Archive of Education Data (ICPSR)
- To provide user-friendly interface to cross tabulations of microdata
from the National Center for Education Statistics
- Uses data analysis system developed at Berkeley
- Sample project is Monitoring the Future: 12th Grade
Survey, 1995
- Demographic characteristics of 12th grade students combined with
attitudes toward education, religion, military survey, and substance abuse
- Sample Search
- Click on Browse Codebook
- Choose Standard Variables
- Determine the variables you want (e.g. v150 is gender and v184
includes plans to attend graduate school)
- Go back to main screen and choose Run Frequency
- Choose columns and rows (e.g. v184 for rows; v150 for
columns); choose percentages (e.g. column percentages)
- Run Table
- International Comparisons
of Education
- Reports, data bases, studies and speeches on educational achievement
in participating studies
- Subjects include math, reading, science, civic education, and adult
literacy
- Millennium
Indicators (United Nations)
- Forty-eight social and economic indicators for 197 countries annually,
1985-2000
- Includes carbon dioxide emissions, immunizations, AIDS, education,
illiteracy, mortality, malnutrition, forested lands, sanitation, water and
telephone lines
- Data accessed by name of country
- NationMaster
- Create graphs, maps, and country rankings for a very broad range of
social, economic and cultural statistics
- Subjects include individual crimes, currency, sports, religion,
transportation, electoral system, budget, trade balance, health,
education, economics, marriage rate
- Countries may be ranked by region as well as worldwide from the top
100 to the bottom 5
- Sample: Papua-New Guinea has one of the lowest crime rates in the
world while Saudi Arabia has the largest car theft rate in the Middle
East
- OECD
Education
Data Base
- Statistics on educational finance, enrollment and personnel since
1985 for OECD countries
- Countries include Europe, Japan, Australia, United States, Canada,
and Mexico
- Interactive search engine with pulldown menus
- Results in ASCII, data base, or spreadsheet format
- OECD Programme for
International Student Assessment
- Country data on student performance in reading, mathematics, and
science for the industrialized nations (Europe, Japan, Australia, U.S. Canada,
New Zealand
- Learning
for Tomorrow's World includes provides spreadsheets and pdf files
of
the 2003 data
- Analyzes factors such as gender equity
- Statistical
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974;
business, association and state government data since 1980, and
international agencies since 1983
- Access through the Search Abstracts menu
- Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity
indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign
country, by age, by disease)
- Sample Search: educational attainment and by
foreign country
- About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
- For items not hot-linked:
- Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to
the Documents Center for the microfiche version or search the title in Google
- Study Abroad
- Open
Doors
- Annual statistics on foreign students studying in the U.S. and U.S.
students studying abroad
- Includes where they go, field, international students by state,
length of stay
- OECD
Foreign Students
- Number of foreign students in developed countries by year beginning
1998
- Includes level of education, country of origin
- UN Statistics Common
Data Base (UMich Only)
- Hundreds of data elements for almost all countries, 1946+ present
- Subjects include agriculture, economics, health, prices, men and
women, education, labor, development assistance, environment
- Basic View allows
selection of single data series for up to 10 countries for 20 years
- Advanced View supports multiple series, years, and countries with
downloading capability into Excel, ASCII, or CSV formats
- Web site includes definitions, sources of the data, and a topical list
of
subjects
- UNESCO
Database
- Time series of education, culture, and communication statistics for
regions and countries of the world
- World
Development Indicators (UMich Only)
- World Bank data base with 593 series of demographic, economic, and
environmental information for 226 countries
- Time series covers 1960 to present when annual data are available for a
given country
- Choose countries or groups of countries
- Choose series with the tree or alphabetical view
- Choose years
- Once you view the data, choose the orientation (columns or rows), scaling
options, display (chart, index, raw)
- Download into ASCII or Excel format
- For the University of Michigan, this replaces access provided by the dear
departed CITRIX server
- The Documents Center will maintain a CD-ROM for single workstation
access
Colleges and
Universities
- COOL: College
Opportunities On-Line (NCES)
- Search for over 9000 colleges, universities and trade schools in the U.S.
- Tailor search by region, state or city; type of school; degree programs
- Data includes tuition, enrollment, and degrees granted by the largest
programs
Elementary and Secondary
- National Public
School and School District Locator (NCES)
- Locate individual elementary or secondary schools or school districts
by name, district, telephone number, or enrollment
- Data includes location, number of teachers and students,
student/teacher ratio, students by grade and ethnicity/race
- Separate search engine for school districts
- Private
School
Locator
- Searchable database of over 29,000 private schools in the United
States
- Search can be limited by name, address, religious affiliation,
coed,
special emphasis, grade, enrollment, and association
memberships
- Information includes the above information plus number of
teachers,
students by grade, student-teacher ratio, and enrollment by
race
- School
District Demographics (NCES)
- Sample data variables for the U.S., Bureau of Indian Affairs, State,
County, and other School Districts for 1990 and 2000
- Includes 492 population and 329 housing tables
- Viewable on screen and downloable by state into compressed format
- On-screen mapping requires Arc Explorer
- CD-ROM of data and maps for 1990 in the Map
Library
- Census
Bureau
- Educational attainment by sex and race for the nation as a whole
- Abbreviated data by state
- Taken from the Current Population Survey
- Various formats with the full text in pdf
- Series reports begin with 1973; brief historical tables date back
to 1940
- Equal Employment
Opportunity File
- Special tabulation for states, places, and counties or county groups
of 50,000+
- Detailed occupation by sex and race tabulated for workplaces and
residences
- Educational attainment by sex, race and AGE
- National
Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988
- Survey collected demographic and family characteristics of grade
school children
- Recurring surveys monitor their progress
- Numerous printed reports (pdf format) identify characteristics
related to ultimate educational attainment
- Home
Education Across the United States (National Home School Legal
Defense Fund)
- Brief national data from 1997 on students, test scores, family
characteristics, and long-term success of home schooled students
- Number of home school students by selected state
- Home
Schooling in the United States: Trends and
Characteristics (Census Bureau)
- Text combined with tables based on a 1996-99 survey
- Children home-schooled by race, age, reason, and type of family
- National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NCES)
- National trends in reading, math, geographic, and history achievement
for K-12
- Data included in the text with the full text of reports available in
Adobe Acrobat
- National
Commission on Teaching and America's Future
- What Matters Most summarizes role of teachers
in student development
- Covers recruiting practices, educational development, rewards, and
standards
- Rates each state on hiring well-qualified teachers, teaching
standards, and professional development
- National Education Goals
Report (Dept of Education)
- Annual report ranks national progress on 17 education goals and
states on 34 subjects, ranging from childhood immunizations to test
scores to teacher education
- State data may be accessed by subject (all states), comparison of
three states on all subjects, or all of the data for one state
- Clinton Administration program replaced by Bush Administration's No Child Left Behind
- National Public
School and School District Locator (NCES)
- Locate individual elementary or secondary schools or school districts
by name, district, telephone number, or enrollment
- Data includes location, number of teachers and students,
student/teacher ratio, students by grade and ethnicity/race
- Separate search engine for school districts
- National
School
Report
- Arranged by county with composite statistics for individual school
districts
- School population, student-teacher ratio, average elementary and
secondary class size, computers in elementary schools, percent of high
school students going to college
- A commercial real estate web site
- As of 9/23/2005, there was no one free source that listed SAT
scores for each school district in the country
- No Child Left Behind
- Bush Administration to improve schools through stronger accountability, local choice, parental choice, tests, and better teachers
- Program achievements are available state-by-state
- The primary gauge for the program's success is the School Matters web
site, which provides test data
- Additional links to various aspects of the program (e.g. charter schools) and state NCLB contacts
- OECD Programme for
International Student Assessment
- Country data on student performance in reading, mathematics, and
science for the industrialized nations (Europe, Japan, Australia, U.S. Canada,
New Zealand
- Learning
for Tomorrow's World includes provides spreadsheets and pdf files
of
the 2003 data
- Analyzes factors such as gender equity
- Public
Elementary-Secondary School Systems Financial Statistics (Census
Bureau)
- Revenue and expenditures by type, investment and debt for public
school systems in 1993/94
- Statewide data and data for individual school districts with
enrollments of 15,000+
- Quality Counts -
Public Education
- Report on the quality of public elementary/secondary education
- National and state data on student achievement, quality of teaching,
school climate, and funding
- Public School
Finance Peer District Search (NCES)
- Choose school district and select automatic peers (student/teacher
ratio, median household income, district type, metropolitan status) or
individualized peer information (minority enrollment, povwerty, at-risk
students)
- Initial table shows per pupil expenditure for district in question,
the state, the nation, and peers
- List of peers provides individual district data on receipts,
expenditures, community and school demographics
- Resegregation
in American Schools (Harvard)
- Report includes text and tables on segregation in K-12 education
- Data includes percent of minorities (black, Latino) in primarily
white schools and vice versa
- Some data by state and large city
- Issued 1999
- School
District Demographics (NCES)
- Sample data variables for the U.S., Bureau of Indian Affairs, State,
County, and other School Districts for 1990 and 2000
- Includes 492 population and 329 housing tables
- Viewable on screen and downloable by state into compressed format
- On-screen mapping requires Arc Explorer
- CD-ROM of data and maps for 1990 in the Map
Library
- School Data
Direct
- Evaluates individual schools and school districts in text and with
statistics
- Factors include state test scores, drop-out rates, students per staff,
school size, school building, financing, and demographics
- Compares individual districts to the county and state
- Provides some interpretive material and test scores for individual
schools
- Formerly known as Standard and Poor's School Matters
- Teacher
Quality: A Report on Teach Preparation and Qualifications of Public
School Teachers (NCES)
- Report and brief national statistics on teacher education, continuing
education, specialization, and working conditions
- HTML and PDF formats
- Technology
Counts Archive (Education Week)
- Brief national data on technology use in the classroom and effect on
standarized tests
- State-by-state educational technology plans
- Toward
Better Teaching (NCES)
- Report on professional development of teachers in 1993/94
- Some state data on funding and release time for development as well
as types of development offered
Graduation
Rates
- Cities
in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School
Graduate
- National high school graduate rates by race, gender and type of
school
- Total graduation rates for the 50 largest cities
- Written by Christopher Swanson of the Editorial Projects in
Education Research Center and released on April 1, 2008
- Diplomas
Count 2008
- Report provides high school graduation rates for 2005 by state and
Congressional District with projections for 2008
- Analyzes success of states which have adopted P-16 (preschool
through college) boards to ease transition from high school to college
- Charts list state policies on college/work readiness, advanced
diploma, and exit exam policies
- Dropout
Rates in the United States (NCES)
- School dropout rates by student characteristics (ethnicity, income,
age) and status
- Sections on immigration and people with disabilities
- Most data is national with one table on high school completion by
state
- Continuing series of publications
Test
Scores
- Improving Student
Achievement: What NAEP State Test Scores Tell Us (Rand
Corporation)
- Results of state scores in the National Assessment of Educational
Progress
- States showing the highest improvement: North Carolina, Texas and
Michigan
- Differences in test scores in Texas and California given the same
type of families and the differences in public policy
- Released July
2000
- National School
Report
- Arranged by county with composite statistics for individual school
districts
- School population, student-teacher ratio, average elementary and
secondary class size, computers in elementary schools, percent of high
school students going to college
- District composite SAT and ACT scores with three of them free
- A commercial real estate web site
- National
Assessment of Educational Progress [Nation's Report
Card/NCES]
- Extensive reports on national and state test scores of 4th, 8th, and
12th grade students by various demographic characteristics
- Separate surveys on science, mathematics, history, geography
- Summary report includes percent reaching average by state and race
or gender
- All publications in Adobe Acrobat
- A bibliography
lists
published NAEP documents since 1970
- OECD Programme for
International Student Assessment
- Country data on student performance in reading, mathematics, and
science for the industrialized nations (Europe, Japan, Australia, U.S. Canada,
New Zealand
- Learning
for Tomorrow's World includes provides spreadsheets and pdf files
of
the 2003 data
- Analyzes factors such as gender equity
- School Data
Direct
- Evaluates individual schools and school districts in text and with
statistics
- Factors include state test scores, drop-out rates, students per staff,
school size, school building, financing, and demographics
- Compares individual districts to the county and state
- Provides some interpretive material and test scores for individual
schools, including SAT and ACT
- Trends in International
Mathematics and Science Study
- Test scores of U.S. fourth, eighth, and twelfth-graders in science
and mathematics compared to 20 countries
- Full text of reports and press releases with some in Adobe Acrobat format
- Includes test questions and education packets
School Violence
- Annual Report on
School Safety (Dept of Educ)
- Number of reported high school students carrying weapons to school
and threats made by high-risk states and cities
- Recommendations for ending school violence and model programs
- Indicators of School
Crime and Safety (NCES)
- Text and graphs report fatal and nonfatal victimization of staff and
students
- Student and principal reports of drugs, guns, and gangs
- National data often disaggregated by race or location (urban, rural)
but no state or local information
- Appendix lists measures taken by schools to insure safety
- 2005 version
- National School Safety
Center
- Promotes safe school strategies
- Numerous publications for purchase
- School-Associated Violent
Deaths (pdf)
- List of individual school-associated murders since September 1992
- Data includes date, name of school, name of victim, how victim
killed, reason for incident, location of murder, and description of incident
- Cumulative data on reasons for death, victims' gender, location, and
state
- Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative (US Secret Service - pdf)
- Characteristics of students involved in school shootings
- Results show they felt bullied, planned the attack for a lengthy
time, and told their peers in advance
- Most were remorseful
- Students' Report on
School Crime: 1989 and 1995
- Joint NCES and Bureau of Justice Statistics survey completed in 1998
- Data on crime victims, guns, drugs, and street gangs in schools for
1989 and 1995
- Variables include sex, age, and race of student; family income;
metropolitan/nonmetropolitan area; and public/private control
- Text and pdf formats
- Violence and
Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools (NCES)
- Types of crimes and frequency in U.S. public schools
- Crime by size, socio-economic status, grade level, and region
- Discipline preventive measures (e.g. school uniforms)
- Updated to 2000 in Education Statistics Quarterly
- Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General (2001)
- Report commissioned after the Columbine shooting
- Notes various causes for youth violence and effective intervention
techniques
- Web site includes an executive summary, full report, and Webcast of
an interview
- Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance System (CDC)
- State and national data affecting health of young people
- Includes eating habits, wearing motorcycle helmets, etc.
- Surveys include weapons brought to school, engaging in physical
fights, and feeling unsafe in school
- Data available in various formats
- School violence in Tables 5-9
- Almanac of Higher
Education (NEA)
- Data primarily on faculty salaries
- State policy and budget developments
- Braintrack: U.S.
Colleges
- Profiles of U.S. colleges include detailed listing of degrees granted and SAT
scores
- Browsable by state, name, occupational specialties, religious affiliation, and
online programs
- Links to web sites of colleges around the world
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Weekly newspaper on higher education issues
- Numerous reports, statistics, and analysis
- Extensive section of academic job postings
- Indexed since 1983 in Education
Abstracts (UMich Only)
- Full text without job openings in Academic Universe, Sept.
1997+
- Found in its own separate file under General News
Topics
- Statistical
Universe provides more comprehensive indexing of the
statistical tables; Documents Center maintains corresponding microfiche
for text not found in Academic Universe
- Paper copies of the Chronicle are maintained in the
Serials Room (LB 2300 .C56) until Serials receives the microfilm
version (FILM X974)
- College and
University Campus Crime Statistics (Security on Campus)
- Campus crime by type of crime and university
- FBI and Chronicle of Higher Education are among sources
- Links to individual campus police web sites
- College
View
- Search 3500 colleges and universities by name or a combination of
preferences (state, characteristics of student body, size of city, etc.)
- Statistics for schools includes student body, minority representation of
faculty, tuition, and SAT scores
- COOL: College
Opportunities On-Line (NCES)
- Search for over 9000 colleges, universities and trade schools in the U.S.
- Tailor search by region, state or city; type of school; degree programs
- Data includes tuition, enrollment, and degrees granted by the largest
programs
- Data Analysis System
(NCES)
- Windows program for data and correlations of major NCES studies
- National Post-Secondary Study Aid Study
- National Study of Post-Secondary Faculty
- Baccalaureate and Beyond
- National Longitudinal Survey of 1972
- High School and Beyond
- National Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988
- Diversity
News (U Md/Ford Foundation)
- Articles and statistics on campus diversity issues designed to
provide background for news reporters
- Subjects include student admissions and retention, affirmative action
in hiring, campus trends, diversity issues in society
- Includes model curriculum on diversity
- Web site searcherable by keyword of a pulldown menu of diversity
issues
- Facts
About Community Colleges
- National enrollment data
- Snapshot on the number of schools, student body, and financial
aid
- Faculty Employment Data
- Titles on Statistical Reference Index microfiche in the Documents
Center
- 2005-2006 National Faculty Salary Survey (SRI microfiche A3900-4)
- 2005-2006 Administrative Compensation Survey (SRI microfiche
A3900-1)
- 2005-2006 Mid-Level Administrative and Professional Salary Survey
(SRI
microfiche A3900-8)
- 2004 Comprehensive Survey of College and University Benefits
Programs
(SRI microfiche A3900-9)
- University of
Michigan Faculty and Staff Salary Record
- FinAid
- Extensive annotated web links to student financial aid sources
- Includes grants, loans, tuition prepayment, aid for special groups,
study abroad, and exchange programs
- Financial aid calculator
- Integrated
Post-Secondary Education Survey (NCES)
- Detailed data on enrollment, finances, student characteristics, staff
salaries, and libraries in academic institutions
- Some data for individual institutions
- Lists printed and CD-ROM publications
- Links to data, which may be in zipped or pdf format
- Some data over 1 megabyte
- Interative IPEDS
Data Base
- Individual institutional data or comparative data can be downloaded
into various spreadsheet formats
- Easy search interface
- Select survey (fall enrollment, completions, salaries, financial
characteristics) and year
- Limit search to one institution or all meeting search criteria
(accreditation, historically-black, Carnegie classification, region,
range of characteristics
- Nellie Mae
- Undergraduate and graduate student loan information and interest
rates for repayment
- Includes EXCEL, GradEXCEL, Federal Plus Loans, and Federal Stafford
Loans
- School
Codes (Dept. of Education)
- College and university numeric codes are used in applying for
financial assistance (Title IV)
- Web site allows keyword search to identify code
- Students.Gov
- Guide to career planning, financial aid and international exchanges
- Registering to vote, taxes, and housing issues for college
students
- Test
Prep Review
- Free web site providing practice ACT, SAT, GRE, and other practice
tests
- Includes free
tutorials
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