The colleges have until Jan. 15, 2027, to comply with the reporting requirements.
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Just over 1,000 colleges and universities failed to fully submit required student outcomes data for this year by the Oct. 1 deadline, the Education Department said Thursday.
This update is the latest in a series of similar reports from ED that have shown hundreds of institutions failed to comply with the reporting requirements for 2024 and 2025 data. Once again, the Office of Federal Student Aid is warning the institutions missing data that their access to federal grants and loans could be at risk if they fail to properly submit the information by Jan. 15. That deadline won’t be extended, officials reiterated Thursday.
When ED first shared data on the missing files in August, officials said 1,930 institutions were missing some or all of the data they are required to provide under new federal accountability rules. That figure has since dropped to 1,396 for the 2024 and 2025 reporting cycles, according to Thursday’s update. (ED indicates if a college is missing files if they underreported some or all of the required data.)
Across all three reporting cycles, about 37 percent of institutions—1,726 total—are missing some files, according to ED.
