Registrar's Office
Common Data Sets
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Reports on this page are in PDF format
Reports on this page are in PDF format
The Common Data Set (CDS) was developed through a collaboration among various publishers of college guides, colleges and universities, representatives of higher education organizations, high school counselors, and the National Center for Education Statistics. Many of the items and definitions in the Common Data Set will be used on the fall surveys of several major publishers. The goal of the CDS is to improve the comparability of data reported by colleges and to ease each institution's burden by asking questions in a standard way on numerous surveys. .