Common Datasets
The Common Data Set (CDS) initiative is a collaborative effort among data providers in the higher education community and publishers as represented by the College Board, Thomson Peterson's, and U.S. News & World Report. The combined goal of this collaboration is to improve the quality and accuracy of information provided to all involved in a student's transition into higher education, as well as to reduce the reporting burden on data providers.
The CDS is a set of standards and definitions of data items rather than a survey instrument or set of data represented in a database. Each of the higher education surveys conducted by the participating publishers incorporates items from the CDS as well as unique items proprietary to each publisher. Consequently, the publisher's surveys differ in that they utilize varying numbers of items from the CDS.
Common Datasets
- Common Dataset 2022-23 (PDF 684 KB)
- Common Dataset 2021-22 (PDF 686 KB)
- Common Dataset 2020-21 (PDF 721 KB)
- Common Dataset 2019-20 (PDF 529 KB)
- Common Dataset 2018-19 (PDF 546 KB)
- Common Dataset 2017-18 (PDF 510 KB)
- Common Dataset 2016-17 (PDF 296 KB)
- Common Dataset 2015-16 (PDF 315 KB)
- Common Dataset 2014-15 (PDF 314 KB)
- Common Dataset 2013-14 (PDF 388 KB)
- Common Dataset 2012-13 (PDF 259 KB)
- Common Dataset 2011-12 (PDF 280 KB)
- Common Dataset 2010-11 (PDF 281 KB)
- Common Dataset 2009-10 (PDF 276 KB)
- Common Dataset 2008-09 (PDF 114 KB)
- Common Dataset 2007-08 (PDF 646 KB)
- Common Dataset 2006-07 (PDF 566 KB)
- Common Dataset 2005-06 (PDF 339 KB)
- Common Dataset 2004-05 (PDF 430 KB)
- Common Dataset 2003-04 (PDF 325 KB)
- Common Dataset 2002-03 (PDF 490 KB)
- Common Dataset 2001-02 (PDF 321 KB)
- Common Dataset 2000-01 (PDF 419 KB)