College and Beyond II Data Series

The purpose of College and Beyond II (CBII) is to better understand how students' undergraduate experiences in and out of the classroom relate to their long-run development. The College and Beyond II Administrative Data contains administrative student records obtained for nearly all bachelors-seeking undergraduate students at 19 postsecondary institutions representing 7 postsecondary system in the United States from approximately 2000 to 2021. Partner colleges provided information on demographics (race, gender), family background, entry term, degree term, college major, admissions test scores, term-by-term information on majors, credits, and grades, and information on all courses taken. Students' administrative data can be linked to other data in the CBII series. Students are linked across studies in the series by a unique anonymized person identifier. Colleges are linked across studies in the series by a unique anonymized college identifier. Files are organized by the postsecondary system they are a part of and can be linked by a unique anonymized system identifier.

The College and Beyond II (CBII) Advanced Placement Data contains Advanced Placement (AP) student test and course credit records from four postsecondary systems that participated in the CBII study. Records are recorded at the student-test level and cover the time period from approximately 2000 to 2019. Variables include AP test name, AP test score, an indicator of whether the student received credit for the test, and the name of the college course to which the credit best maps. Not all variables are available for all systems. The AP data can be linked to other student-level data in the CBII series using the id_person identifier.

The College and Beyond II (CBII) Alumni Survey Open Response Study contains two open-response variables extracted from the CBII Alumni Survey. The 'essay' variable details an important undergraduate experience described by the respondent and ways it has contributed to the respondent's life today. The 'final' variable contains any other information the respondent wanted to write about. The Open Response Study data can be linked with other CBII student-level data using the id_person variable. Content warning: Users should be aware that some responses cover sensitive topics such as experiences of discrimination, sexual assault, suicidal ideation, and substance misuse. Respondents' experiences of discrimination include incidents of hate speech and the use of racial slurs. ICPSR has chosen to preserve the data as it was collected, without masking these words, and is not condoning their use.

The purpose of College and Beyond II (CBII) is to better understand how students' undergraduate experiences in and out of the classroom relate to their long-run development. The CBII Alumni Survey provides data collected from graduates ten years after earning their bachelor's degrees. It serves as the main source of information on students' long-run development for the study series. Domains covered by the CBII Alumni Survey include arts appreciation and engagement; health and well-being; labor market participation and wealth; civic engagement; beliefs about diversity and pluralism; and democratic participation. The survey also asks about respondents' recollections of their college experiences, as well as their current family structure, social identities, educational attainment, experiences with discrimination, and political and religious identification. The survey contains scales that are widely used in various disciplines such as education, economics, political science, and psychology. The CBII Alumni Survey data can be linked to other studies in the CBII series using the ID_PERSON anonymized student identifier. These CBII studies provide information about respondents' academic backgrounds, undergraduate course transcripts, descriptions of courses taken, and postsecondary enrollment and degree attainment. Contextual data about respondents' neighborhoods can be linked to the National Neighborhood Data Archive using current zip codes, and contextual data about the colleges respondents applied to can be linked to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System using U.S. Department of Education UNITID identifiers.

The College and Beyond II (CBII) Contextual Data Study contains publicly available data on colleges and universities from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and publicly available data on the socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods from the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA). CBII did not collect this data; rather, this data is made available in the ICPSR Virtual Data Enclave for the convenience of restricted data users who may want to link this contextual data to other studies in the CBII study series. IPEDS can be merged with any CBII file that contains a variable whose values are UnitIDs. NaNDA can be merged with any CBII file that contains a variable whose values are Zip Codes. If you use the NaNDA data in your work, please cite the data using the following: Melendez, Robert, Clarke, Philippa, Khan, Anam, Gomez-Lopez, Iris, Li, Mao, and Chenoweth, Megan. National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA): Socioeconomic Status and Demographic Characteristics of ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, United States, 2008-2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-07-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120462V1.

The College and Beyond II (CBII) Course Content Study contains course-level information about the curricular content of courses taken by students in the CBII Administrative Data course file. This information includes the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code associated with each subject, a College Course Map (CCM) code derived from the course's catalog title and subject code, and - at four postsecondary systems - the course description associated with each course. The Course Content Study can be linked with student-level course data using the ID_COURSE and COURSE_CATALOG_TITLE variables.

The College and Beyond II (CBII) Enrollment and Award Study contains student-level National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) data provided by postsecondary systems. The data are intended to cover the time periods before and after students' undergraduate attendance dates at the CBII institutions, making them ideal for examining such phenomena as transfer behavior and post-baccalaureate educational attainment. There are three files for each system that provided data: an enrollment file (all terms of enrollment across all institutions that report to the NSC), an awards file (all degrees and other awards earned across all institutions that report to the NSC), and a derived file. The derived file was created by the CBII team from the enrollment and award data as a convenience for users. It includes summary student-level measures such as 'highest credential earned' and indicators for whether students ever earned specific types of awards or had specific types of enrollment patterns.The Enrollment and Awards data can be linked to other student-level data in the CBII series using the id_person variable.

The College and Beyond II (CBII) Student Experience Analytics Study contains contextual analytics of students' undergraduate experience based solely on information extracted from the Administrative Data. The study consists of two sets of derived measures, the Transcript of the Future measures and the Course Diversity measures. They are provided as examples of the types of aggregate measures that can be distilled from transcript data. Users are encouraged to explore their potential for measuring the student experience. Code similar to that used to generate the Transcript of the Future measures can be found here on Github. The following Student Experience Analytics variables were developed by Koester et al. (2017): transcript_student_effect, transcript_course_effect, transcript_breadth, and transcript_div_major. If you use them in your work, please cite the following: Koester, B.P., Fogel, J., Murdock III, W., Grom, G., & McKay, T.A. (2017). Building a transcript of the future. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Analytics & Knowledge Conference (pp. 209-308).