National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG) Public Use Data Files

Latest Year Available: 2023

Microdata and related instructions from the National Survey of College Graduates are provided in the files below. Data are available for each survey year beginning with 1993.

All data files are provided as compressed .zip files. Use an archive utility program that supports the .zip format to uncompress the files you download to your computer.

Correction(s) Date May 23, 2025: Because of a data processing error, information about some respondents’ first bachelor’s degrees was missing from the 2021 NSCG data file. This information has been restored and resulted in changes to other related educational history variables, including undergraduate financing information. In an unrelated error, the derivation of three location variables (RESPLO3/RESPLCUS/RESPLOC) was corrected.
Year
Downloadable Files
2023
College_Grads_2023 (ZIP 61.2 MB)
2021
College_Grads_2021 (ZIP 63.5 MB)
2019
College_Grads_2019 (ZIP 41.3 MB)
2017
College_Grads_2017 (ZIP 77.5 MB)
2015
College_Grads_2015 (ZIP 59.4 MB)
2013
College_Grads_2013 (ZIP 56.0 MB)
2010
College_Grads_2010 (ZIP 28.8 MB)
2003
College_Grads_2003 (ZIP 52.2 MB)
1993
College_Grads_1993 (ZIP 48.0 MB)