The new Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education -- the first produced since the project shifted to Indiana University from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching -- is now officially available. Colleges and universities have been reviewing their data for the last month or so in advance of the official release.
Indiana's Center for Postsecondary Research is now responsible for the classification system, which categorizes institutions in multiple ways and allows for comparisons among them but not rankings.
Perhaps the most significant change in the new version involves how associate-granting institutions are classified.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/02/02/new-carnegie-classifications-are-out