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    • Postsecondary School Locations 2018-19

    Metadata Updated: October 21, 2024

    The National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) Education Demographic and Geographic Estimate (EDGE) program develops annually updated point locations (latitude and longitude) for postsecondary institutions included in the NCES Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The IPEDS program annually collects information about enrollments, program completions, graduation rates, faculty and staff, finances, institutional prices, and student financial aid from every college, university, and technical and vocational institution that participates in federal student financial aid programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (as amended). IPEDS school point locations are derived from reported information about the physical location of schools. The NCES EDGE program collaborates with the U.S. Census Bureau's Education Demographic, Geographic, and Economic Statistics (EDGE) Branch to develop point locations for schools reported in the annual IPEDS file. The point locations in this data layer were developed from the 2018-2019 IPEDS collection. For more information about NCES school point data, see: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/SchoolLocations.All information contained in this file is in the public domain. Data users are advised to review NCES program documentation and feature class metadata to understand the limitations and appropriate use of these data.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Metadata Created Date April 16, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date October 21, 2024

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    Harvested from Education JSON

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    Metadata Created Date April 16, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date October 21, 2024
    Publisher National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2020-03-17T20:54:29.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2024-10-19T12:47:57.601684
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    Public Access Level public
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    License https://resources.data.gov/open-licenses/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Program Code 018:000
    Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Department of Education > Office of the Secretary (OS) > Institute of Education Sciences (IES) > National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash d752e8626f6691fa59017b564e1ced8f1c55c2ee91eb057bb309a4aa97ae5d27
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