Just Ask IPEDS—From Question to Insights in Minutes
Ask questions in plain English and get instant answers from IPEDS—the federal database for every U.S. college and university
IPEDS (the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) is the U.S. Department of Education’s core postsecondary dataset, collected annually by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). It is free and public through the IPEDS Data Center, NCES College Navigator, and the IPEDS Trend Generator.
Data source: NCES IPEDS, 2024–25. Last reviewed July 2026.
Stop clicking and downloading. Just ask.
Ask questions like a conversation:
- • "What's our fall completion rate?"
- • "How do we calculate IPEDS net?"
- and additional research queries...
"How does our graduation rate compare to peer institutions?"
Your graduation rate is 72%.
That compares favorably to the peer group average of 68%.
What is IPEDS?
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is the federal database containing comprehensive data on every college and university in the United States. It includes enrollment, graduation rates, financial aid, institutional characteristics, and much more.
New data is published on a fixed cadence. See the official IPEDS data release schedule for upcoming publication dates.
Why Use IPEDS AI Agent?
Traditional IPEDS access is clunky and time-consuming. IPEDS AI Agent makes it effortless.
The Old Way
- ✗Navigate complex IPEDS website interfaces
- ✗Download multiple CSV files manually
- ✗Merge and clean data in Excel
- ✗Figure out variable definitions
- ✗Hours or days to get answers
With IPEDS AI Agent
- ✓Ask questions in plain English
- ✓Get instant, accurate answers
- ✓Compare institutions automatically
- ✓Export charts and data easily
- ✓Minutes instead of hours
Questions You Can Ask
Just type naturally—IPEDS AI Agent understands what you need.
IPEDS data query with natural language AI
Clema turns a plain-English question into an answer drawn from official IPEDS data, with the source shown. It is the conversational alternative to clicking through the NCES IPEDS Data Center or scripting the IPEDS API, and a focused option next to general assistants like the Datatelligent IPEDS Assistant.
AI agent for pulling federal higher education data
One conversation reaches IPEDS, College Scorecard, PSEO, Pell Grant, cohort default rate, EADA, and DAPIP. Instead of downloading and merging files from each federal source, you ask once and Clema returns the answer with its citation, ready to export.
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Frequently
Asked Questions
IPEDS, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, is the U.S. Department of Education’s core postsecondary dataset, collected annually by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). It covers enrollment, graduation rates, financial aid, staffing, and finance for every college that participates in federal student aid.
IPEDS is administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), part of the Institute of Education Sciences within the U.S. Department of Education. NCES sets the annual survey components and publishes the results through the IPEDS Data Center and College Navigator.
Yes. IPEDS data is free and public. Anyone can download it from the NCES IPEDS Data Center, look up a single school in College Navigator, or build trend reports in the IPEDS Trend Generator. Clema queries that same official data in plain English.
Anything in the IPEDS surveys: enrollment trends, graduation and retention rates, tuition and net price, financial aid, admissions, faculty, and institutional finance, for any U.S. institution from 2014 to 2025. Clema returns each answer with its source shown.
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Instead of navigating the IPEDS Data Center’s tables and filters, you ask questions in plain English and get an immediate answer with its source, so a report that took an afternoon takes a minute.