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• May 8, 2009 -- I’m a Harvard grad who can’t hold a fast-food job (0)
• March 13, 2009 -- Common Data Set for Several Universities (2)

Sometimes its nice to know specific information about each and every individual school. Luckily we have the the Common Data Set.

The Common Data Set (CDS) initiative is a collaborative effort among data providers in the higher education community and publishers as represented by the College Board, Peterson’s, and U.S. News & World Report. The combined goal of this collaboration is to improve the quality and accuracy of information provided to all involved in a student’s transition into higher education, as well as to reduce the reporting burden on data providers.

This goal is attained by the development of clear, standard data items and definitions in order to determine a specific cohort relevant to each item. Data items and definitions used by the U.S. Department of Education in its higher education surveys often serve as a guide in the continued development of the CDS. Common Data Set items undergo broad review by the CDS Advisory Board as well as by data providers representing secondary schools and two- and four-year colleges. Feedback from those who utilize the CDS also is considered throughout the annual review process.

Search for each and every university can be a tedious task so here is a list borrowed from College Confidential.

American University http://american.edu/academic.depts/provost/oir/cds.pdf
Amherst College http://www.amherst.edu/about_amh/cds/
Barnard College http://www.barnard.edu/opir/cds/cds_main.htm
Bates College http://www.bates.edu/x2294.xml
Bentley College http://ecampus.bentley.edu/dept/ir/handydata/index.html
Boston College http://www.bc.edu/about/bc-facts/
Boston College http://www.bc.edu/publications/factbook/
Boston University http://www.bu.edu/oep/cds.html
Bowdoin http://academic.bowdoin.edu/ir/data/cds-table.shtml
Brandeis University http://www.brandeis.edu/offices/IR/cds/CDS.html
Brown University http://www.brown.edu/Administration…ional_Research/
Brown University http://www.brown.edu/Administration…andfigures.html
Bryn Mawr College http://www.brynmawr.edu/institution…cds/index.shtml
Bucknell University http://www.bucknell.edu/Offices_Res…n_Data_Set.html
California Institute of Technology http://atc.caltech.edu/finance/budget.htm
Carleton College http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/ira/CDS1/
Carnegie Mellon http://www.cmu.edu/ira/cds.htm
Case Western Reserve University http://www.cwru.edu/president/cir/cdsmain.htm
Catholic University http://computing.cua.edu/PIR/common_data_set/
Colby College http://www.colby.edu/ir/
College of the Holy Cross http://www.holycross.edu/departments/planning/website/
Colorado College http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dean/oir/comdata.htm
Columbia University http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/
Cornell University http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/cds.htm
Dartmouth College http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/dataset.html
Davidson College http://www2.davidson.edu/administra…m/ir/ir_cds.asp
Dickinson College http://www.dickinson.edu/department…ublications.htm
Drexel University http://www.drexel.edu/provost/ir/cds2005/
Duke University http://www.provost.duke.edu/units/factbook.html
Duke University http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump…2009profile.asp
Duquesne University http://www.irp.duq.edu/commonData.html
Emory University http://www.emory.edu/PROVOST/IPR/ir_factbook.htm
Fairfield University http://www.fairfield.edu/x1137.xml
Frostburg State http://www.frostburg.edu/admin/ois/CDS/cds.htm
Furman University http://www.furman.edu/planning/cdspage.htm
George Washington University http://www.gwu.edu/~ire/
Georgetown University http://www.georgetown.edu/opir/
Georgetown University http://www.georgetown.edu/undergrad…1YRProfile1.htm
Georgia Tech http://www.irp.gatech.edu/
Goucher College http://www.goucher.edu/institutiona…Col-1-6-051.xls
Grinnell College http://www.grinnell.edu/offices/ins…alresearch/cds/
Hamilton College http://www.hamilton.edu/college/institutional_research/
Harvard University (Fact Book not CDS) http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/budget/factbook/index.html
Harvey Mudd College http://www.hmc.edu/information.html#general
Haverford College http://www.haverford.edu/info/commondata03.pdf
Indiana University Bloomington http://www.indiana.edu/~budu/cds/cds034/G1400bl.pdf
Johns Hopkins University http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/i…and_statistics/
Juniata College http://services.juniata.edu/research/new_page_9.htm
Kenyon College http://ir.kenyon.edu/commondataset.php
Kenyon College http://ir.kenyon.edu/profile.php
Lehigh University http://www.lehigh.edu/~oir/cds.htm
Loyola College in Maryland http://www.loyola.edu/academics/res…LoyolaData.html
Loyola University http://www.loyno.edu/oir/cds/
Macalester College http://www.macalester.edu/ir/cds.htm
Messiah College http://www.messiah.edu/offices/research/data/
Michigan State University http://opbweb.msu.edu/
Middlebury College http://www.middlebury.edu/administr…/fall02_cds.htm
MIT http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/
Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/en…strch/cds.shtml
New York University http://www.nyu.edu/ir/cds/
Northeastern University http://www.oupr.neu.edu/dataset/common.html
Northwestern University http://ugadm.northwestern.edu/commondata/
Oberlin College http://peacock.adm.oberlin.edu/www/cds/cds_explain.html
Ohio State University http://oem.osu.edu/
Penn State (all campuses) http://www.budget.psu.edu/CDS/default.asp
Pepperdine University http://www.pepperdine.edu/instres/dataset/
Pomona College http://www.pomona.edu/ADWR/Admissio…2009profile.pdf
Princeton University http://registrar1.princeton.edu/data/common.cfm
Purdue University http://www.purdue.edu/idn/CDS_Post/cdsmain.html
Reed College http://web.reed.edu/ir/ReedCDS200405.html
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http://www.rpi.edu/about/cds/index.html
Rhodes College http://www.rhodes.edu/planning/cds/
Rice University http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~instresr/ricefacts/index.html
Rutgers University http://oirap.rutgers.edu/instchar.html
Saint Joseph’s University http://www.sju.edu/ir/CDS%202003-2004.htm
Salisbury University http://www.salisbury.edu/iara/CDS/cdshome.htm
Scripps College http://www.scrippscol.edu/dept/abou…aset.html#first
Skidmore College http://www.skidmore.edu/registrar/i…k/fact_book.htm
Smith College http://www.smith.edu/ir/cds.php
St Mary’s College (Md) http://www.smcm.edu/instresearch/index.cfm
St Michaels in Vermont http://www2.smcvt.edu/assessment/Co…kIndicators.htm
Stanford University http://find.stanford.edu/search?as_…esheet.xslt&oe=
Stonehill College http://www.stonehill.edu/planningand…CDS2005-06.htm
Swarthmore College http://www.swarthmore.edu/Admin/ins…search/cds.html
Syracuse University (data, but not CDS) http://sumweb.syr.edu/ir/index.htm
Syracuse University (data, but not CDS) http://sumweb.syr.edu/ir/prospectiv…s.html#Freshmen
Temple University http://www.temple.edu/factbook/
Texas A&M http://pie.tamucc.edu/cds/cdsmain.htm
Towson University http://www.towson.edu/ir/
Tufts University http://www.tufts.edu/ir/FACTBOOK%202005%20wv5.pdf
Tufts University http://www.tufts.edu/ir/inresearch.html
U Illinois UC (profile, not CDS) http://www.pb.uillinois.edu/dr/
UC Berkeley http://cds.vcbf.berkeley.edu/
UC Davis (click on Campus Data) http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/
UC Santa Barbara (abridged CDS) http://bap.ucsb.edu/IR/UG_Info_Guide.pdf
University of California Irvine http://www.oir.uci.edu/cds/
University of California Los Angeles http://www.aim.ucla.edu/data/campus/general/cds.html
University of California San Diego http://ugr8.ucsd.edu/sriweb/sri.htm
University of Colorado http://www.colorado.edu/pba/cds/
University of Connecticut http://vm.uconn.edu/~wwwoir/enro-gen.html
University of Delaware http://www.udel.edu/IR/cds/index.html
University of Florida http://www.ir.ufl.edu/data.htm
University of Georgia http://www.uga.edu/irp/cds/index.html
University of Maryland http://oirp.umd.edu/public/commondataset.cfm
University of Md Baltimore County http://www.umbc.edu/oir/cds.html
University of Michigan http://sitemaker.umich.edu/obpinfo/common_data_set
University of Missouri http://web1.umkc.edu/ir/
University of New Hampshire http://www.unh.edu/ir/cds1.html
University of North Carolina (CH) http://www.ais.unc.edu/ir/cds.html
University of Pennsylvania http://www.upenn.edu/ir/
University of Pittsburgh (all campuses) http://www.ir.pitt.edu/cds/cdshmpg200405.htm
University of Richmond http://oir.richmond.edu/Databases.htm
University of Scranton http://academic.scranton.edu/depart…-research.shtml
University of Southern California http://afaweb.esd.usc.edu/USC-AFA/u…ile%2020051.pdf
University of Texas http://www.utexas.edu/academic/oir/cds/04-05/
University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~isis/?Page=cds0.html

• March 16, 2009 -- Free College Lectures: Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale (1)