Research & Data

The Council collects and maintains a wide range of information from postsecondary institutions across the Commonwealth. Information not readily available on this Web site may be requested by contacting the Council office.

• Accountability
  Annual accountability reports contain summaries of enrollment, degrees, staffing and other characteristics of Kentucky’s postsecondary education institutions.
  
  
• Kentucky Adult Education
  Kentucky Adult Education provides demographic and performance information about Kentucky’s education programs for adult learners.
  
  
• County Level Profiles
  The Council provides a fact sheet for each county in Kentucky that details educational attainment, employment, population data, and other data helpful to legislators and other state leaders. Fact sheets were published January 2006.
  
  
• Data Policy
  The data policy outlines the rules that the Council staff abide by in collecting and using personally identifiable student information.
  
  
• Data Collection Guidelines
  Data collection guidelines provide the latest reporting requirements for submitting institutional data to the Council's comprehensive database.
  
  
• Degrees and Formal Awards
  The Council offers information about the degrees and formal awards conferred by Kentucky’s postsecondary institutions on an annual basis.
  
  
• Endowment Match Programs
  The Council publishes reporting guidelines and instructions for requesting matches for endowment gifts and reporting endowment information.
  
  
• Enrollment
  Enrollment information is available for Kentucky’s postsecondary institutions and is updated on an annual basis.
  
  
• Equal Education Opportunities
  The Council offers extensive information that supports the Kentucky Plan for Equal Educational Opportunities in Higher Education and the status of institutions related to the plan’s objectives.
  
  
• External Resources
  Several resources are available to supplement the Council’s postsecondary education data and provide additional information about Kentucky’s citizens, along with national comparisons of Kentucky’s postsecondary education performance.
  
  
• Faculty & Staff
  The Council reports various data about faculty and staff resources of Kentucky’s postsecondary institutions.
  
  
• Finance
  The Council summarizes the fiscal resources of Kentucky’s postsecondary institutions including revenue, expenditure and tuition information.
  
  
• Institutional Profiles
  The Council develops summary tables of enrollment, degrees, faculty and staff and resource data for each public postsecondary institution.
  
  
• Knowledge Economy
  Knowledge Economy annual reports detail the Council’s work related to the Science and Technology Programs including the Research & Development Voucher Program, the Commercialization Program, and the Rural Innovation Program.
  
  
• Special Reports
  For occasional reports on a variety of topics.
  
  
• Students & Alumni
  The Council collects data on Kentucky postsecondary alumni and students on a periodic basis.