College Transparency Act
Latest action (Aug 4, 2026) — under General Orders. Calendar No. 537.
What it does
Congressional Research Service, Aug 4, 2026This bill requires the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to establish a secure and privacy-protected data system that contains information about postsecondary students.
Specifically, the data system must
evaluate student enrollment patterns, progression, completion, and postcollegiate outcomes, and higher education costs and financial aid;provide complete and customizable information for students and families making decisions about postsecondary education;reduce the requirements for reporting by institutions of higher education; andperiodically match with other federal systems of data.The bill also establishes a postsecondary student data system advisory committee.
The Department of Education (ED) and NCES must (1) provide dedicated and adequate staffing at ED to implement the bill's requirements, and (2) report to Congress on a quarterly basis regarding the progress of implementing the bill's requirements.
Face Value
as reported to the SenateHow much of this bill its name accounts for.
- Every bill starts at100
- Areas of law−8
Amends 2 titles of the US Code (5 and 44) rather than one.
Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out
Who lobbied on this
1 organizationThese organizations told Congress, in their own quarterly disclosures, that they were lobbying on this bill.
- Associated General Contractors of Americano position stated
“…S.2511, College Transparency…” filing ↗
Most filings say only that an organization lobbied on a bill, not which side it took — where that's the case we say so rather than guessing. Quotes are verbatim from the filing. How this is built.
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