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2.8.1 Field of Study Earnings Data Update

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@brownpl brownpl released this 14 Mar 14:45
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On March 14, 2022, the Department updated the College Scorecard website with more recent data for metrics from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Specific data updates in this release include:

  • Refreshed 1-year earnings cohort to the Field of Study data files and expanding to include disaggregation by Pell Grant recipient status and sex.
  • Added a three-year median earnings measurement point to the Field of Study data files, overall and by Pell Grant recipient status and sex.
  • A change to the assignment of privacy suppressed values for 1 calculated field in the institution-level data file (MDCOMP_PD) was made to ensure consistency with other related calculations.