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  • NCES-Barron's Admissions Competitiveness Index Data Files: 1972, 1982, 1992, 2004, 2008, 2014

    Metadata Updated: March 3, 2023

    The NCES−Barron’s Admissions Competitiveness Index Data Files: 1972, 1982, 1992, 2004, 2008, 2014 (NCES 2015-332) contain the Barron’s college admissions competitiveness selectivity ratings for 1972, 1982, 1992, 2004, 2008, 2014 along with the NCES Higher Education Information System (HEGIS) FICE ID and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) UNITID codes and the Office of Postsecondary Education OPEID codes of each postsecondary institution included. Also included are the city and state of each institution included in the Barron’s lists. The years selected correspond to the years that students in the longitudinal studies (NLS-72, HS&B, NELS:88, ELS-2000,HSLS:09, and BPS) initially attended the 4-year postsecondary institutions. Each of the six NCES−Barron’s index files is available in a separate worksheet in an Excel workbook file that is in Excel 1997–2003 compatible format.

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 3, 2023
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Education JSON

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 3, 2023
    Publisher National Center for Education Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier NCES_2016332
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2017-01-10
    Public Access Level restricted public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
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    Harvest Source Title Education JSON
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Old Spatial United States
    Program Code 018:000
    Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Department of Education > Institute of Education Sciences > National Center for Education Statistics
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    Temporal 1972/2014

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