Ideas and Insights

Carnegie Classifications White Paper Series

Papers from the Technical Review Panel

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Insights

Takeaways and learnings from our research on the Carnegie Classifications

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OCUs

Opportunity Colleges and Universities include 478 institutions that exceed the thresholds for higher access and higher earnings.

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Mini-series: Nondegree Programs

Four-part brief series exploring the evolving ecosystem of nondegree programs

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Featured Resources 

Unpacking the 2025 Carnegie Classifications

In this webinar, leaders from the Carnegie Classifications talk through the 2025 update and how institutions are classified.


Organizational Classification: Approaches, Methods, and Applications to Higher Education Organizations

This white paper from Chief Data Scientist Kyle Whitman provides an overview of the theories, approaches, and analytical methods available for forming classifications in the context of higher education.


Mini-series: Supporting Student-Parents’ Social and Economic Mobility

These papers capture initial research and understanding of student-parents’ experiences in higher education, what data are available, and how institutions can help mitigate the common challenges that student-parents encounter in pursuing their degree or credential