2025-26 Audit and Reporting Guidelines Format Final- Harsha

Field Type

Field

Field Name

Start

Len

Definition

Valid Choices or Examples

16 Degree Seeking Status

94

1 Num Degree

or

Award

Codes 1 = First time entering, first year (a) 2 = First year, continuing / Returning (b) 3 = All other students (c) 4 = Not degree or award seeking 5 = Transfer-in-First-Time(d)

Seeking Status

(a) A student attending a postsecondary institution for the first time. Includes students enrolled in the fall term who attended college for the first time in the prior summer term. Also includes students who entered with college credits earned before graduation from high school. This classification is not based on major and does not include current dual credit/dual enrollment students or transfer students. (b) A continuing student (not first-time entering) who has completed less than the equivalent of 1 full year of undergraduate work; that is, 0-29 cumulative credit hours. This classification is not based on major. It may (b) include transfer students, but does not include dual credit/dual enrollment students. (c) A current high school (dual credit/dual enrollment) student OR a continuing student who has earned 30 or more cumulative credit hours. This classification is not based on major and may include transfer students. (d) A degree / certificate-seeking undergraduate student entering the reporting institution for the first time but known to have previously enrolled at a different postsecondary institution (not as a high school student). The student may transfer with or without credit. For systems of coordinated institutions (multi-campus system), students are to be identified as transfer-in students upon entering an institution from another institution within the same coordinated system.

CANNOT BE BLANK