Postsecondary Enrollment Reporting Stats

This overview introduces a new report available within StudentTracker 3.0 that provides transparency into how many postsecondary institutions have provided student enrollment data for a given term (fall, spring, and summer).

The enrollment stats report is used to determine how many postsecondary institutions in a given U.S. state have successfully reported their term enrollment data to the Clearinghouse. This will help you determine how comprehensive your institution’s postsecondary outcomes will be on a given date.

The enrollment stats report is based on general postsecondary terms of fall, spring and summer. The date ranges of when the terms will display is shown below:

StudentTracker enrollment term definitions and reporting availability
Term Enrollment term dates definition* When are the postsecondary enrollment stats for the given term be available in StudentTracker 3.0?
Fall Term
  1. Postsecondary enrollment term begin dates between August 15 and October 1, inclusive, of the current year, or
  2. Postsecondary enrollment term end dates between October 1 and December 31, inclusive, of the current year, or
  3. Postsecondary enrollment term begin date between  August 15 of the prior year and August 15 of the current year AND enrollment term end date between December 31 of the current year and December 31 of the next year, inclusive.
 September 1 – January 31
Spring Term
  1. Postsecondary enrollment term begin dates between January 1 and May 15, inclusive, of the current year, or
  2. Postsecondary enrollment term end dates between January 1 and May 15, inclusive, of the current year, or
  3. Postsecondary enrollment term begin date between January 1 of the prior year and January 1 of the current year AND enrollment term end date between May 15 of the current year and May 15 of the next year, inclusive.
 February 1 – May 31
Summer Term
  1. Postsecondary enrollment term begin dates between May 16 and August 14, inclusive, of the current year, or
  2. Postsecondary enrollment term end dates between May 16 and August 14, inclusive, of the current year, or
  3. Postsecondary enrollment term begin date between May 16 of the prior year and May 16 of the current year AND enrollment term end date between August 14 of the current year and August 14 of the next year, inclusive.
 June 1 – August 31

*Note: These date ranges are used only to determine the number of postsecondary institutions that have reported their enrollment data to the Clearinghouse. They are not used for StudentTracker outcome calculations.

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