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Common Data Set

The Common Data Set (CDS) is a list of information collected by the publishers of college guides. It includes policies, deadlines, facts such as telephone numbers, and tables of numbers on topics like enrollment. The CDS is mainly undergraduate information.

This site presents CU-Boulder's responses to the CDS items.

• 1999-2000 CDS    2000-2001 CDS    2001-2002 CDS   
• 2002-2003 CDS    2003-2004 CDS    2004-2005 CDS   
• 2005-2006 CDS    2006-2007 CDS   
• 2007-2008 CDS    (Most current information!)

The University of Colorado at Boulder provides the information contained in the CDS to the following college guides and surveys (as well as many others):

• ACT College Planning/Search Book - March
• Barron's Profiles of American Colleges - December
• Chronicle Guidance Publications - January and March
• College Bound - November
• College Board Annual Survey of Colleges - December
• The Fiske Guide to Colleges - May
• Newsweek/Kaplan College Guide - November
• Peterson's - January and March
• The Princeton Review - February
• U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Colleges - April

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