cip {midfieldr}

Table of academic programs

Description

A data table based on the US National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2010 CIP, http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/. The data are codes and names for 1582 instructional programs organized on three levels: a 2-digit series, a 4-digit series, and a 6-digit series.

Usage

cip

Format

data.table with 1582 rows and 6 columns keyed by the 6-digit CIP code:

cip6

Character 6-digit code representing "specific instructional programs" (US National Center for Education Statistics).

cip6name

Character program name at the 6-digit level

cip4

Character 4-digit code (the first 4 digits of cip6) representing "intermediate groupings of programs that have comparable content and objectives."

cip4name

Character program name at the 4-digit level.

cip2

Character 2-digit code (the first 2 digits of cip6) representing "the most general groupings of related programs."

cip2name

Character program name at the 2-digit level.

Details

The midfielddata taxonomy includes one non-IPEDS code (999999) for Undecided or Unspecified, instances in which institutions reported no program information or that students were not enrolled in a program.

The MIDFIELD research database include CIPs for undergraduate pre-majors such as pre-med (511102), pre-law (220001), and pre-vet (511104).

See Also

Other cip-data: fye_proxy