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Learner Insights

Gain richer insights on learner progress and outcomes.

Our insights empower you to make data-driven, student-centered decisions to improve learner outcomes. We offer tools for secondary and postsecondary educators, as well as educational organizations, which enable you to harness the power of the unique national student data resources that the Clearinghouse manages. This data — THE source for education insights — can help you understand learner pathways and outcomes and help learners succeed.

Learner Insights

Gain richer insights on learner progress and outcomes.

Our insights empower you to make data-driven, student-centered decisions to improve learner outcomes. We offer tools for secondary and postsecondary educators, as well as educational organizations, which enable you to harness the power of the unique national student data resources that the Clearinghouse manages. This data — THE source for education insights — can help you understand learner pathways and outcomes and help learners succeed.

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Affordable

As a nonprofit, the Clearinghouse empowers the education community with affordable ways to use the expansive education data we manage to benefit schools and learners.

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Verified data

The Clearinghouse is the source for authenticated data on student enrollment and academic achievements.

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Comprehensive

No one can match the breadth and comprehensiveness of the nationwide educational data available through the Clearinghouse.

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Get actionable learner insights

Our insights empower you to make data-driven, student-centric decisions to improve learner outcomes.

How Your Learners Benefit

Better insights enable you to improve the programs and strategies that support learners, help them prepare for and complete higher education and, ultimately, set them on the path to greater success.

Unparalleled National Coverage

Most U.S. colleges and universities participate in the Clearinghouse and regularly submit enrollment and degree information to us. This includes all types of institutions: in-state, out-of-state, two-year, four-year, public, private, trade school, vocational, and more. As a result, we manage the only nationwide collection of postsecondary enrollment and degree records, providing a unique and invaluable tool for researching learner progress and outcomes.

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Percentage of currently enrolled U.S. postsecondary students

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Percentage of U.S. four-year postsecondary degrees

For high schools & districts

StudentTracker® for High Schools

StudentTracker can help your high school or district explore the paths your graduates take through higher education so that you can more accurately gauge the college success of your alumni.

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For outreach programs

StudentTracker® for Outreach

With StudentTracker, you can accurately track the postsecondary enrollment and degrees of participants in your outreach program nationwide.

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For colleges & universities

StudentTracker® for Colleges & Universities

Base Service

Our base service lets you track and study the enrollment and credential attainment of your prospective, current, and former students at postsecondary institutions across the United States.

Premium Service

Premium Service transforms your understanding of student pathways and improves research efficiency through process automation.

If you already participate in the StudentTracker base service, contact us about upgrading to Premium Service.

Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP)

The PDP empowers your institution with more comprehensive data, easier analysis, and better visual representations to help you understand, improve, and communicate student momentum, outcomes, and equity.

For educational organizations

StudentTracker® for Educational Organizations

Your organization can use StudentTracker to study enrollment and degree completion patterns for students nationwide, taking your research beyond the limitations of local and state data resources.

Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP)

The PDP makes it simple for higher education institutions to measure, assess, and share their student success data with your education organization. The PDP’s deep, accurate data enables you to better collaborate with your institutions to advance student success and equity and synthesize the outcomes of your network institutions.

Features You’ll Love

High Schools

StudentTracker® for High Schools

  • Annual StudentTracker report containing aggregate and detail data
  • Access to updated reports three times a year (fall, spring and summer)
  • Ability to instantly generate ready-to-share charts and data using data elements such as gender, race, and economic disadvantage
  • Districts, state agencies and consortiums also receive the “Top 25 Postsecondary Institutions First Attended Report

Add DiplomaVerify for free! DiplomaVerify automates your diploma verifications, using the same data you report to us for StudentTracker.

Outreach

StudentTracker® for Outreach

  • Instant results with online single student lookup
  • Ability to query both enrollment and degree records
  • Access to current and accurate information (data updated three times a term by our participating postsecondary institutions)

Colleges & Universities

StudentTracker® for Colleges & Universities

Base Service

  • Unlimited batch file submissions*
  • Unlimited student lookups via the web
  • Detailed student-level report that you can combine with your data for analysis by any variable you choose
  • Aggregate report with enhanced summary-level information on the students in your batch file
  • Ability to run cohort queries for the Student Achievement Measure (SAM) Project

Premium Service

  • Analysis-ready reports
  • Ability to re-run request files
  • Data visualizations: gender, race, institutions attended, remediation, and completions
  • Institution-specific reports: completions, persistence/retention, and tracking transfer
  • Industry credentials data

*You can include up to 250,000 students in each file you submit to StudentTracker.

Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP)

  • Interactive dashboards that let you easily measure outcomes
  • Powerful multivariable filtering tools for analyzing deep, disaggregated data characteristics, such as age, race, gender, cohort term, and first-generation student status.
  • Benchmarking capability to enable comparisons with peer institutions
  • Analysis-ready files that let you perform granular analysis and data comparisons with other data sets
  • Simpler reporting to education organizations and associations
  • National benchmarking reports — using the power of PDP data and metrics — to help you understand national postsecondary education trends

Educational Organizations

StudentTracker® for Educational Organizations

  • Access to nationwide postsecondary enrollment and graduation data for your cohort
  • Student unit-level data that you can combine with your own data to analyze educational trends and patterns
  • Secure and easy batch file exchanges

Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP)

  • Interactive dashboards that let you easily measure outcomes
  • Powerful filtering tools for your participating institutions’ disaggregated data to enable student-outcome assessments by age, cohort, cohort term, first-generation student status, gender, GPA, race, and more
  • Subgroup gap analysis so that you can explore differences in academic progress and outcomes between multiple small populations of students
  • National benchmarking reports — using the power of PDP data and metrics — to help you understand national postsecondary education trends

Custom Research Also Available

If you have research needs that are not met by any of the above Clearinghouse services, talk to us about developing a custom research project. Our team of custom research experts can help researchers and other education stakeholders take advantage of the Clearinghouse’s decades of deep data resources and analytical capabilities.

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All Clearinghouse services facilitate compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), The Higher Education Act, and other applicable laws. The Clearinghouse also respects all participating institutions’ policies concerning the release of student data to third parties.

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