The Postsecondary Academic Awards file specification collects a cumulative set of students granted postsecondary degrees, diplomas, or certificates during a particular academic year. Students receiving multiple awards will appear in the file multiple times, once per award.
Submissions will include records beginning with the 2012 academic year until the current recent academic year. Data for future academic years will be submitted on an annual basis in alignment with the NSWERS data submission cycle.
NOTE: A Postsecondary Enrollment record must have been previously submitted or is part of the same data submission for each student appearing in a Postsecondary Academic Awards file or the data loading process will reject the record.
These elements are mandatory. They require non-blank and non-null data.