New National/State Metrics To Measure Higher Education Success

The report, developed in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, details that the information provided today leaves out answers to college access, progression, completion, cost and outcomes. Using the three metrics identified in the report and integrating them into federal and state systems will make the information available to all students from all types of institutions.

“This report draws on the knowledge and experience of higher education leaders and experts to lay out in detail the metrics we should be collecting and explains why those data will make a difference, for all students, but particularly for those who traditionally have been underserved by higher education,” said Michelle Cooper, IHEP’s president, in a news release. “The field needs a core set of comprehensive and comparable metrics and should incorporate those metrics into federal and state data systems.”