On November 17, 2025, the Department updated the College Scorecard website with more recent data from Office of Postsecondary Education and Federal Student Aid sources. Specific data updates in this release include:

Updated the Office of Postsecondary Education minority-serving institution indicators to more recent values. These indicators identify:

• Predominantly Black Institutions
• Alaska Native-/Native Hawaiian-serving Institutions
• Tribal Colleges and Universities
• Asian American-/Native American-Pacific Islander-serving Institutions
• Hispanic-serving Institutions
• Native American Non-Tribal Institutions

Updated data derived from Federal Student Aid sources to more recent values for the following data metrics:

• Currently Operating Status Flag
• Heightened Cash Monitoring Flag
• Accrediting Agency Name and Code
• Title IV Approval Date
• Federal School Code
• Cohort Default Rate
• Institutional control

On April 23, 2025, the Department updated the College Scorecard website with more recent data for metrics from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and from Federal Student Aid sources.

Specific data updates in this release include:

• Updates to all data metrics derived from IPEDS with more recent data values from a new data collection year.
• Added a new metric, SCORECARD_SECTOR, to aid in classifying institutions into similar groups based on the predominant award conferred and the institutional ownership/control.
• Updated data derived from Federal Student Aid sources to more recent values for the following data metrics:
  • Currently Operating Status Flag
  • Heightened Cash Monitoring Flag
  • Accrediting Agency Name and Code
  • Title IV Approval Date
  • Federal School Code
  • Cohort Default Rate
  • Institutional control (Postsecondary Education Participants System version)

There were also various bug fixes and UI improvements, notably we now show the exact matches of schools when searched by school name first.

On January 16, 2025, the Department updated the College Scorecard downloadable data files and the API to include more recent data values derived from Federal Student Aid sources for the following data metrics:

Currently Operating Status Flag
Heightened Cash Monitoring Flag
Accrediting Agency Name and code
Title IV Approval Date
Federal School Code
Institutional Control
The College Scorecard API has been updated to fix an issue where integer values were incorrectly set to 0 for data that was either privacy suppressed or unavailable. With this update, such values will now be properly returned as null.

This release also introduces a new College Scorecard home page that provides additional context about about the website's features and the types of data available.

Finally, the College Scorecard website was updated, rewritten in Vue 3 using the Nuxt framework.

On October 10, 2024, the Department updated the College Scorecard downloadable data files and the API as indicated below.

More recent data values derived from Federal Student Aid sources for the following data metrics were included:

• Currently Operating Status Flag
• Heightened Cash Monitoring Flag
• Accrediting Agency Name and code
• Title IV Approval Date
• Federal School Code
• Institutional Control

Updates derived from the Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) eligibility matrix for data metrics identifying Minority Serving Institutions.

Minor bug fixes and update to footer.

On July 24, 2024, the Department updated the College Scorecard website navigation to allow all pages to be accessed from the main navigation. This update also included a new Resources page, which provides toolkits for advisors and educators to use with their students to help them better utilize data from College Scorecard in their decision making process.

An API documentation page was added to give more detailed examples of parameters to use in querying the College Scorecard API.

On June 13, 2024, the Department updated the College Scorecard website and datafiles and updated annual data metrics with

• Refreshed institution-level earnings calculations for former students 6, 8, and 10 years after starting school at the institution level.
• Refreshed institution and field of study earnings calculations for graduates 1 and 5 years after graduation (the 5-year calculation is new, previously the 4-year measurement point was the furthest look back post-graduation).
• Restructured the data file to relabel previously published entry-cohort earnings calculations released in 2022 and 2023 with the publication of a data errata document describing data quality issues with those calculations.

On May 6, 2024, the Department updated the College Scorecard website with more recent data for metrics from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and from Federal Student Aid sources. To reduce file sizes, some text values have also been abbreviated in all data files. Also, the data documentation reports have been updated to include an appendix describing what changes were made to the report when compared to the prior version.

Specific data updates in this release include:

• Updates to all data metrics derived from IPEDS with more recent data values from a new data collection year.

• Added percentages of degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students awarded Pell Grants and Federal Student Loans.

• Added median (50th percentile) SAT and ACT scores.

• Updated data derived from Federal Student Aid sources to more recent values for the following data metrics:

  • Currently Operating Status Flag
  • Heightened Cash Monitoring Flag
  • Accrediting Agency Name and Code
  • Title IV Approval Date
  • Federal School Code
  • Cohort Default Rate
  • Minority-serving institution indicators
  • Institutional control (Postsecondary Education Participants System version)

• When values for a metric have been suppressed in accordance with the privacy protocol, the text string has been changed from “PrivacySuppressed” to “PS”.

• When values for a metric are not available, the associated text string has been changed from “NULL” to “NA”.

• Bugs related to USWDS header
• Field of Study search bugs
• Removed padding around some test score bar charts