The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is a framework for classifying colleges and universities in the United States. The framework primary serves educational and research purposes, where it is often important to identify groups of roughly comparable institutions. The classification includes all accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States that are represented in the National Center for Education Statistics Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).
The Carnegie Classification was created by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (hereafter referred to as The Carnegie Foundation) in 1973. They issued reports in 1973, 1976, 1987, 1994, 2000, and 2005. The 2005 report substantially reworked the classification system, based on data from the 2002–2003 and 2003–2004 school years.
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