UDH Source Ingestion Cross-Reference.

A standardized view of university, government, nonprofit, and commercial data sources UDH can integrate, including the data available from each source and how UDH can load and refresh it.

Source Integration Matrix.

Ingestion Type describes how data can enter UDH. Ingestion Methodology describes how UDH loads and refreshes that data. Availability may vary by source, licensing arrangement, and institutional access.

SourceDescription of DataIngestion TypeIngestion Methodology
Academic AnalyticsFaculty scholarly productivity, publications, citations, grants, awards, and research benchmarkingData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
ACTCollege-readiness assessments, student score reports, academic information, and related enrollment dataData FeedScheduled Batch
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO)Registrar, admissions, enrollment, transfer, records, and student-services research and benchmarkingData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
BloombergSecurities, pricing, markets, economic, reference, and other licensed financial-market dataAPI / Data FeedInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)Regional GDP, personal income, employment, industry, and other regional economic statisticsAPIInitial Bulk Load + Scheduled Batch
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)Employment, unemployment, occupations, wages, industries, labor-force statistics, and labor-market trendsAPI / Data FeedInitial Bulk Load + Scheduled Batch
CanvasCourses, sections, enrollments, assignments, grades, submissions, assessments, and learning activityAPIInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher EducationInstitutional classifications, research activity designations, student access, and earnings classificationsData FeedScheduled Bulk Load
Clarivate Web of Science / InCitesResearch publications, citations, research impact, affiliations, funding information, and institutional benchmarkingAPIInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR)Higher-education workforce, faculty and staff compensation, benefits, workforce demographics, and HR benchmarkingData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
College BoardSAT and AP scores, electronic score reports, student information, and college-readiness dataData FeedScheduled Batch
College ScorecardInstitution- and program-level costs, student debt, earnings, repayment, completion, and other outcomesAPI / Data FeedInitial Bulk Load + Scheduled Batch
CollegeNETApplications, admissions, scheduling, events, and other administrative data depending on deployed productsAPI / SFTPInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
Common Application (Common App)Undergraduate applications, applicant demographics, academic history, activities, essays, and application informationAPI / Data FeedScheduled Batch
ConcurTravel, expenses, transactions, employees, reimbursements, approvals, and corporate-card activityAPIInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)Advancement, alumni engagement, fundraising, giving, and institutional-development benchmarkingData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs (DAPIP)Accreditation status for postsecondary institutions and programs, recognized accrediting agencies, and related approval informationData FeedScheduled Bulk Load
Education Advisory Board (EAB)Higher-education benchmarking, enrollment, student-success, institutional-performance, and peer-comparison data where licensedData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
EDUCAUSEHigher-education technology staffing, budgets, services, technology use, and benchmarking data where availableData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
Ellucian / BannerStudent, enrollment, courses, programs, terms, admissions, registration, grades, financial aid, and institutional reference dataAPI / Database ConnectorInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
Elsevier Scopus / SciValScholarly publications, citations, abstracts, research metrics, collaboration, and research-performance benchmarkingAPIInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
EpicPatients, encounters, diagnoses, procedures, providers, orders, results, clinical activity, and healthcare operationsAPI / Database ConnectorInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
ExamSoftExams, questions, responses, scores, item analysis, competency mappings, and assessment analyticsAPI / SFTPInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
Federal Student Aid (FSA) Data CenterTitle IV aid volumes, Pell Grants, federal loans, disbursements, institutional aid activity, and related portfolio statisticsData FeedScheduled Bulk Load
FilesCSV, Excel, JSON, XML, Parquet, extracts, reports, and other structured or semi-structured university-provided dataManual Upload / SFTPScheduled Bulk Load / Scheduled Batch
HelioCampusInstitutional benchmarking, cost analysis, academic program economics, finance, enrollment, and operational performance data where licensedData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) / National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)Institution characteristics, admissions, enrollment, student charges, financial aid, completions, retention and outcomes, finance, HR, and academic librariesData FeedScheduled Bulk Load
Liaison WebAdMITApplicants, applications, statuses, documents, evaluations, admissions decisions, and workflow dataAPI / Data FeedInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
LightcastJob postings, occupations, skills, wages, career pathways, employer demand, and labor-market intelligenceAPI / Data FeedInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
MedHubResidents, programs, rotations, schedules, evaluations, duty hours, procedures, competencies, and GME dataAPI / SFTPInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC)Admissions trends, recruitment practices, applications, yield, and enrollment-management research and benchmarkingData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO)Endowment, finance, tuition discounting, and institutional financial benchmarking where availableData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs (NASSGAP)State-sponsored grants, scholarships, loans, waivers, work-study, and student financial-aid expendituresData FeedScheduled Bulk Load
National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)Medical education examinations, scores, subject exams, student assessment results, and performance dataSFTPScheduled Bulk Load
National Science Foundation (NSF) / National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) – Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering (GSS)Graduate students, postdoctoral appointees, nonfaculty researchers, fields of study, and institutional science and engineering workforce dataData FeedScheduled Bulk Load
National Science Foundation (NSF) / National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) – Higher Education Research and Development Survey (HERD)Institution-level research and development expenditures, funding sources, fields of research, and research activityData FeedScheduled Bulk Load
National Science Foundation (NSF) / National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) – Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED)Research doctorate recipients, fields of study, educational history, financial support, demographics, and postgraduation plansData FeedScheduled Bulk Load
National Student ClearinghousePostsecondary enrollment, persistence, transfer, completion, degree information, and student mobility across participating institutionsData FeedScheduled Batch
NicheStudent reviews and surveys, institutional profiles, reputation indicators, and competitive-positioning data where licensedData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
One45 by Acuity InsightsCurriculum, rotations, schedules, evaluations, assessments, competencies, and learner-performance dataAPI / SFTPInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
Press GaneySurveys, experience, satisfaction, engagement, benchmarking, and related metricsAPI / SFTPInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
PubMedPublications, authors, affiliations, abstracts, journals, citations, identifiers, and biomedical research metadataAPIInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)Global university rankings, subject rankings, reputation, employability, and international benchmarking data where licensedData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
SalesforceProspects, applicants, students, campaigns, communications, cases, activities, engagement, and custom CRM objectsAPIInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
State Higher Education Agency / SystemState enrollment, completions, funding, performance, accountability, and other higher-education metrics where published or authorizedAPI / Data FeedInitial Bulk Load + Scheduled Batch
State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) / State Higher Education Finance (SHEF)State appropriations, tuition revenue, enrollment, financial aid, and higher-education finance comparisonsData FeedScheduled Bulk Load
State Labor / Workforce AgencyEmployment, wages, unemployment, workforce-program, and longitudinal workforce outcomes where published or authorizedAPI / Data FeedInitial Bulk Load + Scheduled Batch
Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS)Longitudinal K–12, postsecondary, and workforce outcomes where state data access is availableAPI / Data FeedInitial Bulk Load + Scheduled Batch
Strategic Planning Online (SPOL)Strategic planning, accreditation, institutional effectiveness, assessment, goals, outcomes, measures, action plans, and supporting evidenceAPI / SFTPInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta
The Chronicle of Higher EducationHigher-education trend, compensation, enrollment, demographic, finance, and institutional data products where licensedData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
The Princeton ReviewInstitutional profiles, student-experience information, rankings, and perception data where licensedData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
Times Higher Education (THE)Global university rankings, teaching, research, research quality, international outlook, and reputation data where licensedData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
U.S. Census Bureau – American Community Survey (ACS)Population, demographics, educational attainment, income, poverty, employment, housing, and regional contextAPI / Data FeedInitial Bulk Load + Scheduled Batch
U.S. Census Bureau – Postsecondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO)Graduate earnings and employment outcomes by institution, degree level, degree field, and cohort where publishedAPIInitial Bulk Load + Scheduled Batch
U.S. News & World ReportCollege and program rankings, reputation measures, and comparative institutional data where licensedData Feed / Manual UploadScheduled Bulk Load
University Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) / Data WarehouseExisting university-curated data spanning student, finance, HR, admissions, research, and other institutional domainsDatabase ConnectorInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta / CDC
WorkdayHR, employees, faculty, positions, organizations, compensation, finance, procurement, payroll, and student data where Workday Student is deployedAPI / SFTPInitial Bulk Load + Incremental Delta

Standard Ingestion Terminology.

Controlled terminology used throughout UDH source-integration design and documentation.

Ingestion Type

Application Programming Interface (API)UDH retrieves data programmatically from the source system.
Database ConnectorUDH connects to source database data directly or through an authorized database connection or replication process.
Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)Files are securely transferred to UDH using SFTP for ingestion and processing.
Data FeedData is provided through a vendor-, agency-, association-, or source-published feed or downloadable dataset.
Manual UploadFiles are manually provided to UDH for ingestion and processing.

Ingestion Methodology

Initial Bulk LoadInitial historical or full-population load of source data.
Incremental DeltaOnly new or changed records are retrieved after the initial load.
Change Data Capture (CDC)Changes are continuously or periodically captured from database transaction logs or change streams.
Scheduled Bulk LoadA complete source or vendor extract is received and loaded on a defined schedule.
Scheduled BatchNew or newly published source data is processed periodically on a defined schedule.