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Education Data That Keeps Pace with Your Students
Purpose-built datasets to help students determine the best pathway for them, whether that’s college or an alternative route.
6+
Datasets to help students find the right pathway, college, or alternative
20+
90%
of companies cite timeliness as their number one data challenge
THE CHALLENGE
College Data Is Messy, Outdated, and Incomplete
Reporting cycles and manual updates make data stale before it reaches students. Key fields like deadlines, true costs, and program specifics are missing or scattered.
Data Ages Faster Than Reporting
Students are making high-stakes decisions with old data. Peterson’s releases all data at once in global updates, delivered in an easily digestible format so your tools stay current.
Key Decision Fields Missing
Deadlines, true costs, and program specifics are scattered across sources or simply unavailable in public databases.
Inconsistent Delivery
Government-dependent timelines create unpredictability, making it impossible to build reliable, student-facing tools.
WHY PETERSON’S
Credibility in High-Stakes Data
We deliver confidence by validating education data before it reaches the student experience and keeping it accurate as programs and institutions change.
01
Collect
Annual institutional surveys at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
02
Verify
Multi-step QA built over 20 years. Historical trend checks flag anomalies. Definitions governance maintains integrity.
03
Deliver
Production-ready datasets. Versioned definitions and comparable metrics. API and flat-file delivery options.
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
Trusted by the Teams Building Student-Facing Tools
“Working with Peterson’s College Data provides access to comprehensive and up-to-date information on colleges and universities, which can help in making informed decisions about higher education. The value lies in the detailed insights into admission requirements, financial aid, academic programs, and campus life, enabling students to compare options and find the best fit for their educational goals.”
“We use the Peterson’s postsecondary data to help our clients find education programs that are relevant, accessible, and of interest to them. Peterson’s data is easy to understand and use in our products which helps to keep it current for our clients.
The team at Peterson’s understand the data we need, how to collect it and how to share it.”
OUR PARTNERS
Across the Industry
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