Data sources and method

Campus data

All campus figures come from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), run by the National Center for Education Statistics. Files are downloaded from nces.ed.gov/ipeds/complete-data-files/.

File	What it gives	Release
HD2025	Name, city, state, sector, website, coordinates	Release 1, July 2026
DRVEF2024	Fall 2024 enrollment: total, full-time, undergraduate, graduate, share studying only online	Provisional, December 2025
DRVEF2023	Fall 2023 enrollment, for the year-over-year change	Revised release
COST1_2024	2024-25 housing capacity, typical housing and food charges, aid office food and housing budgets	Provisional/final, December 2025
IC2023	2023-24 housing capacity, for the year-over-year change	Revised release

Fall 2025 enrollment had not been released as of October 24, 2026. NCES releases fall enrollment about seven months after its spring collection closes, so the pages will move to fall 2025 when that file appears.

Which campuses are included

Public, private nonprofit and private for-profit institutions at the four-year level or above with at least 3,000 full-time students in fall 2024, excluding campuses where 50% or more of students study exclusively online. That is 693 campuses in 52 states and territories.

Definitions

• College-controlled housing capacity is IPEDS variable ROOMCAP: “the maximum number of students for which an institution can provide residential facilities, whether on or off campus.” It counts housing the college owns or controls, not private buildings that market to students.
• Typical housing charge is ROOMAMT: the academic-year charge “for a typical student sharing a room with one other student.”
• Aid budgets are the food and housing amounts in the school’s cost of attendance, on campus (CHG5AY3) and off campus not with family (CHG7AY3).
• Beds per 100 full-time students is ROOMCAP divided by full-time enrollment, times 100.
• Beyond beds (the gap) is full-time enrollment minus ROOMCAP. It is not a demand estimate.

Lender rules

• Fannie Mae Multifamily Selling and Servicing Guide, Part III, Chapter 1, sections 101-104, effective September 28, 2026 (mfguide.fanniemae.com).
• Freddie Mac Multifamily “Student Housing” product summary, data as of December 31, 2025 (mf.freddiemac.com/docs/student_housing_handout.pdf).
• HUD Multifamily Accelerated Processing Guide 4430.G, revised March 19, 2021, section 3.1.22 (hud.gov).

Refreshing

The site’s repository holds the download script (scripts/refresh_ipeds.sh) and the build script (scripts/build_data.py). Running both rebuilds every campus page from the newest files.