A data table based on the US National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2010 CIP, http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/. The data are codes and names for 1582 instructional programs organized on three levels: a 2-digit series, a 4-digit series, and a 6-digit series.
Format
data.table with 1582 rows and 6 columns keyed by the 6-digit CIP
code:
cip6Character 6-digit code representing "specific instructional programs" (US National Center for Education Statistics).
cip6nameCharacter program name at the 6-digit level
cip4Character 4-digit code (the first 4 digits of
cip6) representing "intermediate groupings of programs that have comparable content and objectives."cip4nameCharacter program name at the 4-digit level.
cip2Character 2-digit code (the first 2 digits of
cip6) representing "the most general groupings of related programs."cip2nameCharacter program name at the 2-digit level.
Details
The midfielddata taxonomy includes one non-IPEDS code (999999) for Undecided or Unspecified, instances in which institutions reported no program information or that students were not enrolled in a program.
The MIDFIELD research database include CIPs for undergraduate pre-majors such as pre-med (511102), pre-law (220001), and pre-vet (511104).
See also
Other cip-data:
fye_proxy