FIELD

EXAMPLE

DESCRIPTION

INST ID

236948

IPEDS code of institution

YEAR

199798

Fiscal year, beginning with summer and ending with spring

TERM

2

Current term being reported; 2=Fall

STU_KEY

H34A27

Surrogate key assigned by third party to all valid social security numbers, used to uniquely identify students

TIE_BREAK

0100001010 (10 CHARS)

Tie break to maintain unique key when the same completion type is awarded for the same student, year and term; can be sequence no. of completion

COMPL_MAJOR_NO

1

Sequence number of major for a given completion (e.g. one degree with a double major would have compl_major sequence nos. 1 and 2)

COMPL_CURRIC_ABBR

MATH (6 CHARS)

Abbreviation (or numeric code) of curriculum area associated with major course of study

COMPL_CIP

101001

CIP associated with curriculum area (If no CIP can be matched to an area, report "NANANA")