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IPEDS Settings: Institutional Configuration

Use these settings to control data collection for IPEDS reporting.

Fields

  • IPEDS Unit ID: Also called IPEDS ID. If you don't know your institution's IPEDS ID, you can find it on the NCES College Navigator site. Up to 6 characters. Required.

  • Description: Up to 60 characters. Not required.

  • Can Report Other Gender (Undergrad): Yes or No. The default is No. Select Yes if your school tracks Unknown and Other that you can submit to the report. Although you still report all students as either Men or Women, IPEDS now also has additional fields to capture numbers of students you track as Unknown and Other.

    Note

    If Biograph Gender is not M or F, the system assigns values in aggregate, not individually) with the percentage of male and female at your school. (It calculates the percentage from ir_student_data.biograph_gender which is populated from biograph_master.gender.) For example, if the school is 60% female (i.e., of the students who have either M or F in ir_student_data.biograph_gender, 60% have F), then 60% of the blanks (or any values besides M or F) get F, and 40% get M.

  • Can Report Other Gender (Graduate): Yes or No. The default is No. Select Yes if your school tracks Unknown and Other that you can submit to the report. Although you still report all students as either Men or Women, IPEDS now also has additional fields to capture numbers of students you track as Unknown and Other.

  • Citizenship: The options are provided in default data. Here you set the report's default citizenship for all students. Then in the report itself, you can edit the field for individual students who have a different citizenship.

  • Does your institution have dual enrolled students? Select Yes or No. If you select No, the two settings below are disabled.

    • High school students are enrolled within a dual enrollment program: Select Yes or No. Enabled only if Does your institution have dual enrolled students? is set to Yes. Otherwise, this is set to No and disabled.

    • High school students are enrolled outside a dual enrollment program: Yes or No.

  • Main Location: The options come from the Location Master table (location_master). They're defined on the Campus Locations page. (In Desktop, they're maintained on the Maintain Location Master window.)

How to View and Edit the Institutional Configuration Settings

  1. From the Registration Administration hub options, select Settings.

  2. Click IPEDS settings. The IPEDS Settings page opens.

  3. In the Institutional Configuration section, click the Edit this section button.

  4. Make changes to editable fields as needed. See the Fields section above for guidance.

  5. If you want to abandon your changes, click the Cancel button. Otherwise, click the Save this section button. Your edits are saved.