2020/2025 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:20/25)
BPS tracks students' paths through postsecondary education institutions located in the 50 states of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico and helps answer questions of policy interest. The cohorts for each BPS study are drawn from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS). Students are surveyed beginning in their first year of postsecondary education and followed up at the end of their third and sixth years after entry into postsecondary education. BPS:20/25 follows a cohort of students that began postsecondary education in the 2019-2020 academic year ,and they have been invited to complete surveys in 2022 and 2025.
Study design
Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
37,330 (participants)
Age at first data collection
≥ 18 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
All first-time beginning students who entered postsecondary education for the first time during the 2019–2020 academic year
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
2019
Primary Institutions
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Department of Education
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – phone
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – online
- None
- None
- Education data
- Tax, income & benefit data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
