Transforms Institutional Data into Text Files for IPEDS Automated Import/Upload

Starting from user-supplied institutional data, these scripts transform, aggregate, and reshape the information to produce key-value pair data files that are able to be uploaded to IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) through their submission portal < https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/>. Starting data specifications can be found in the vignettes. Final files are saved locally to a location of the user's choice. User-friendly readable files can also be produced for purposes of data review and validation.

IPEDSuploadables

IPEDSuploadables produces text files in key-value format which meet the IPEDS requirements for upload on their website. By using this package, institutions can avoid the time and risk of manually typing numbers into web forms across multiple screen. Package documentation (see the website) describes how an institution’s data must be formatted to make use of these scripts.

The package is currently serving the 2025-2026 IPEDS reporting cycle

If you are new to this process or are looking for updates

• Learn the package basics with the article How to use this package to support your IPEDS reporting
• Check the package news page for recent updates in this release

Report Coverage

As reports are added, this list will be updated.
You are welcome to fork this repo and work towards new reports or new institution-types for existing reports

Supported surveys that work for all institutions:

• Admissions [partial]
• Completions
• Outcome Measures

Supported surveys that only work for some institutions:

• Graduation Rates: 4-year institutions
• 200% Graduation Rates: 4-year institutions
• 12-month Enrollment: 4-year degree granting institutions
• Fall Enrollment: 4-year degree granting institutions
• Human Resources: degree granting institutions with more than 15 FTE

Unsupported surveys with options

• Academic Libraries: This survey is no longer collected by IPEDS as of the 2025-2026 reporting cycle. For previous years, you can download an IPEDS-compatible file from the ACRL site if you complete that survey.
• Admissions [partial]: Visit How to produce other key-value uploads
• Cost I: Visit How to produce other key-value uploads
• Cost II: Visit How to produce other key-value uploads
• Finance: Visit How to produce other key-value uploads
• Institutional Characteristics: Visit How to produce other key-value uploads
• Student Financial Aid: Visit How to produce other key-value uploads

Websites

For code, issues, etc, visit the GitHub site.
To see full documentation, visit the package website.

Installation

You can install the package in the standard way from CRAN

install.packages("IPEDSuploadables")

To get newer releases or bug fixes before they are posted to the CRAN version, you can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("AlisonLanski/IPEDSuploadables")

#or use

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("AlisonLanski/IPEDSuploadables")

To access vignettes locally (instead of through the website) add an argument:

devtools::install_github("AlisonLanski/IPEDSuploadables", build_vignettes = TRUE)