Higher Education Accountability

Minnesota Measures: Report on Higher Education Performance provides a resource of accurate, timely and comprehensive facts about higher education in Minnesota. It includes comparisons over time as well as national and peer institution comparisons. Data on students' higher education journey are shown in three stages: preparing for and entering college, during college and outcomes of college.

Minnesota Needs to Increase Access to Degrees That Open Doors

View/Download the 2017 Report

• 2017 Report [68 pgs; release date: February 2017]

Past Reports

• Minnesota Measures: 2016 Report on Higher Education Performance infographic
  [68 pgs; release date: March 2016]
• Minnesota Measures: 2015 Report on Higher Education Performance infographic
  [84 pgs; release date: February 2015]
• Minnesota Measures: 2014 Report on Higher Education Performance infographic
  [102 pgs; release date: January 2014]
• Minnesota Measures: 2012 Report on Higher Education Performance
  [74 pgs; release date: January 2013]
• Minnesota Measures: 2011 Report on Higher Education Performance
  [96 pgs; release date: January 2012]
• Minnesota Measures: 2009 Report on Higher Education Performance
  [76 pgs; release date: May 2009]
• Minnesota Measures: 2008 Report on Higher Education Performance
  [72 pgs; release date: April 2008 - updated edition]
• Minnesota Measures: 2007 Report on Higher Education Performance
  [52 pgs; release date: February 2007]

Federal Government Higher Education Accountability Effort

College Scorecards prepared by the U.S. Department of Education's College Affordability and Transparency Center provides data about a college's affordability and value. Each Scorecard includes five key pieces of data about a college: costs, graduation rate, loan default rate, average amount borrowed, and employment.

See also the College Affordability and Transparency Center (CATC). CATC provides information to student and parent consumers about college costs and other indicators of college outcome measures.