What is Evisions IPEDS Visualizations?

IPEDS Visualizations is an easy-to-use application that assists higher education institutions with the aggregation of IPEDS IPEDS stands for Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. It is a system of 12 interrelated surveys conducted annually by the National Center for Education Statistics within the United States Department of Education. Components of the 12 surveys are collected over the Fall, Winter, and Spring reporting periods each year. The completion of all IPEDS surveys is mandatory for all institutions that participate in any federal assistance program authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education Act. IRIS provides a way for you to electronically collect, submit, and report against IPEDS data. survey data for review. It provides a way for institutional leadership to view strategic information within an existing Salesforce experience and share it with other key stakeholders.

The data comes from IPEDS surveys for your institution. If you are a current Evisions IRIS user you will have access to the current and prior year data that is available in IRIS. If you are not an Evisions IRIS user, you have access to the data that has been published by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Evisions IPEDS Visualizations:

  • Compiles all of your institution's IPEDS survey data in a single location, allowing you to create powerful data visualizations, reports, and dashboards.
  • Allows you to chart year-to-year comparisons of crucial data in a variety of formats.
  • Enables visual comparisons of important metrics between your institution and other similar institutions, with the addition of optional modules.
  • Allows benchmarking of up to 20 institutions at a time.
  • Provides dashboards with up to 10 years of historical data trends and benchmarking.

Getting Started

If you are new to Evisions IPEDS Visualizations, the Features topic will help you get a general overview of what the app can do and how to use it.

Help for IPEDS Visualizations

The IPEDS Visualizations Help is designed to answer questions about the application and explain its features. Use the menu in the upper right to navigate through the different help sections.