BPCnet.org created web apps that display disaggregated data for computing or engineering degree recipients at your institution, along with state and national data for additional context. The data can be included in your BPC Plans.
These tools are for accessing IPEDS degree completion data specific to computing and include:
The CCD (Common Core of Data) is a database that tracks data on public elementary and secondary schools in the US, which is maintained by the National Center for Education (NCES)
Interested in computing or engineering degrees awarded nationally between 2011 and 2023? Download a dataset of summarized IPEDS data below.
The Undergraduate BPC Literature Database, developed by the Momentum team at UCLA, is a database of scholarly articles that expand the empirical and theoretical knowledge around broadening participation in undergraduate computing in the United States.
NSF BPC Alliances worked together as part of the “BPC-DP: Developing Shared Measures Among the BPC Community” project to explore and agree on a shared measurement framework. This project was funded by the National Science Foundation as a BPC demonstration project (NSF award 2137842) and was built on prior data collection efforts. Click the button below to learn more about the BPC Shared Measures Project led by CRA and SageFox Consulting Group, and to access the data collection templates and technical reports.
These initiatives release many public datasets that report data for populations defined by NSF CISE as underrepresented in computing. These may serve as other good sources of data to include in your BPC Plan:
BPCnet.org has a collection of other public datasets and repositories that may be helpful to write your BPC plans on the Resource Library page.
Data Buddies Project is an annual survey that collects data from individuals and students in computing and technology fields. It collects multi-level and longitudinal data from academic institutions in the United States and Canada.
NCWIT’s toolkit gives you all the pieces you need to identify strengths and areas for improving your department’s efforts to retain students.
NCWIT’s Evaluation Tools website offers many types of surveys as well as ways to think about demographic data collection – a key component of collecting BPC data.
BPCnet staff published a report that contains summaries of data on computing degrees awarded from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and on early career faculty from the CRA Taulbee Survey. The focus of this report is to display racial/ethnic and gender composition of individuals who were awarded higher education degrees in computing and early career faculty in higher education.
