What's New

• New Data Tool – The College and Career Tables Library
  This tool allows users to browse through 5,000+ tables from NCES’ postsecondary publications that cover a comprehensive range of topics.
• Federal Education Tax Benefits: Who receives them and to what extent do They Shape the Price of college attendance?
  This Statistics in Brief applies IRS rules and data to a nationally representative sample of 2007–08 undergraduates to estimate who received education tax benefits and looks at the extent to which these benefits shaped their price of college attendance.
• Learning at a Distance: Undergraduate Enrollment in Distance Education Courses and Degree
  This Statistics in Brief investigates undergraduates’ participation in distance education using nationally representative student-reported data collected through the three most recent administrations of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:2000, NPSAS:04, and NPSAS:08).
• Borrowing at the Maximum: Undergraduate Stafford Loan Borrowers in 2007–08
  This Statistics in Brief uses nationally representative data to determine the extent to which undergraduate students borrowed the maximum possible within the limits of the Stafford loan program, defined by students’ individual eligibility for financial aid.
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• 2008–09 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:08/09): A First Look at Recent College Graduates
  The first wave of B&B:08/09 variables are now available via PowerStats. In addition to the traditional B&B variables, a future release will feature college transcript information from the graduates' alma maters.