S 2511
Advanced toward a vote
Requires the National Center for Education Statistics to build and maintain a privacy-protected database tracking individual postsecondary students' enrollment, completion, earnings, and debt, with summary results published for students and families to compare colleges.
Official title: College Transparency Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
Senate
Introduced
29-JUL-2025
Referred
29-JUL-2025
Approved by committee
30-JUL-2026
Reported
04-AUG-2026
On the calendar
04-AUG-2026
- Requires the Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics to develop the system within 5 years of enactment, with an advisory committee guiding its design.
- Requires institutions participating in federal student aid programs to submit student-level data, and allows voluntary submission by others.
- Pulls earnings, employment, and loan data from agencies including the IRS, Defense, Veterans Affairs, Social Security Administration, and Bureau of Labor Statistics, and publishes aggregate results on a public website.
- Prohibits sharing individual data for law enforcement, immigration enforcement, debt collection, or federal college rankings, and bars selling the data to third parties.
Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Reported to Senate, 04-AUG-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.govEducation
■ 13 R■ 13 D
13 Democrats
13 Republicans