External Data Collections
These are resources external to UW-Madison that provide national data related to graduate programs.
Resources
Institute of Education Sciences: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
Downloadable reports on institutional characteristics, completions data, enrollment data and graduation rates data
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Statistical reports and custom data tools providing access to national data from a variety of NSF graduate education surveys including the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) and the Survey of Graduate Students and Postdocs in Science and Engineering (GSS).
Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)
Intuitive tools to analyze NCSES data on R&D and the education and employment of the STEM workforce
Classification of Instruction Programs (CIP) codes
Full listing of CIP codes, used for identifying like fields of study across institutions of higher education