NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE

Degree verification services - see schedule odegree verification services:participating post-secondary institutions have authorized the national student clearinghouse to maintain a comprehensive degree database, for the purpose of enhancing education information accuracy and eliminating fraud. As an agent of these institutions, the clearinghouse is authorized to provide limited access to the portions of this data that verify degree attainment for.:1) other post-secondary institutions and higher education organizations so that they could comply with the u.s. Department of education-mandated performance reporting.2) employers so that institutions can support the transition of students and graduates to gainful employment.3) providers of benefits to graduates that is dependent on a graduate's status.

Research services:on behalf of participating post-secondary institutions, national student clearinghouse is authorized to maintain a database of the college enrollment and degree data for approximately 3,600 participating colleges and universities which enables administrators at high schools, colleges and universities, and other education organizations to access student data to perform educational research and analyses. Research services also performs analysis on these data based on customer-defined requirements to further the assessments made regarding the success of various academic programs at the local, state, and national levels; enable mandatory state and federal outcomes reporting; and facilitate improvement to the quality of the k-20 education system.enrollment verification services:the national student clearinghouse is authorized by participating post-secondary institutions to maintain a comprehensive enrollment database. As their agent, it provides limited access to verify student records to providers of benefits to students and graduates dependent on enrollment status. This helps to preserve the integrity of the education system by eliminating fraud. The process automates all enrollment verifications for credit grantors, travel companies, computer hardware and software resellers. This improves efficiency and student service and reduces fraudulent student status claims. The service is free for institutions and is ferpa compliant.