| --- |
| license: other |
| license_name: public-domain |
| tags: |
| - education |
| - ipeds |
| - nces |
| - higher-education |
| - duckdb |
| - datapond |
| pretty_name: IPEDS Database (NCES, 1997-2025) |
| size_categories: |
| - 10M<n<100M |
| --- |
| |
| # IPEDS Database |
|
|
| Harmonized DuckDB database of NCES Integrated Postsecondary Education Data |
| System (IPEDS) complete data files: every U.S. postsecondary institution from |
| 1997 to the 2025-26 provisional release -- directory, admissions, enrollment, |
| completions, tuition, financial aid, graduation rates, outcomes, staffing and |
| finance. |
|
|
| Build pipeline by [Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham](https://github.com/paulgp/ipeds-database) |
| (also published at `paulgp85/ipeds-db`); this copy is rebuilt from the datapond fork |
| https://github.com/ian-nason/ipeds-database with the files NCES released through |
| July 2026. Table list, row counts and the column dictionary: see `DICTIONARY.md` |
| and the `_metadata` / `_columns` tables inside the file. |
|
|
| ## Query it remotely |
|
|
| ```sql |
| INSTALL httpfs; LOAD httpfs; |
| ATTACH 'https://huggingface.co/datasets/Nason/ipeds-database/resolve/main/ipeds.duckdb' AS ipeds (READ_ONLY); |
| SELECT year, COUNT(*) AS institutions FROM ipeds.hd GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 1 DESC LIMIT 5; |
| ``` |
|
|
| Or `pip install datapond` / `pak::pak("datapond-db/datapond-r")`, then connect to `ipeds-db`. |
|
|
| ## Upload (maintainer notes) |
|
|
| ```bash |
| hf upload Nason/ipeds-database ./hf_dataset_card.md README.md --repo-type dataset |
| hf upload Nason/ipeds-database ./DICTIONARY.md DICTIONARY.md --repo-type dataset |
| hf upload Nason/ipeds-database ./ipeds.duckdb ipeds.duckdb --repo-type dataset |
| ``` |
| Then point the registry entry's `huggingface`/`attach_url`/`github` at the new locations |
| and set `maintainer` to credit both people. |
|
|
