1990/1994 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:90/94)
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:90/94 followed a cohort of 1989-1990 first-time beginning students in their first, third, and sixth year since entering college. 11,700 students from 1,092 institutions comprised the BPS:90/94 sample.
Study design
Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
11,700 (participants)
Age at first data collection
≥ 18 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
Students who began their postsecondary education for the first time during the 1989-1990 academic year at any postsecondary institution in the United States of America or Puerto Rico.
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
1990
Primary Institutions
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Department of Education
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Interview – phone
- None
- None
- None
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
