This Electronic Announcement informs the community that the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) is extending the deadline for evaluating Completers’ Lists and reporting data associated with Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment (FVT/GE) until September 30, 2025. The Department is extending the deadline for both evaluation of Completers Lists and debt reporting for the 2024 cycle to give additional time to institutions:
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That were unable to complete the reporting for any reason by February 18, 2025, including challenges submitting the required data to the Department; and
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That wish to make corrections to previously submitted data to the Department, including enrollment data supporting Completers Lists.
The Department notes that many institutions have already submitted FVT/GE data. However, we are aware that some institutions faced significant increases in processing time when submitting FVT/GE data prior to previous deadlines, which may have resulted in errors or omissions that need to be corrected in order to ensure the data is reliable and accurate. We encourage institutions to review previously submitted data and correct any inaccuracies. During the previous administration, a number of technical and operational complexities arose, which have yet to be resolved. Additionally, several institutions continue to report delays in software development. Because of these issues, the Department does not plan to produce any FVT/GE metrics prior to the new deadline and will take no enforcement or other punitive actions against institutions who have been unable to complete reporting to date.
The Department is working to address outstanding issues and concerns, and to answer remaining questions from the community. The Department hopes that, irrespective of these challenges and this seven-month extension, institutions will continue gathering the requisite data between now and September 30, 2025 and report such data when available.
The Department anticipates that this notice will be the final extension of the reporting deadline for FVT/GE.
FVT/GE Completers List Ad Hoc Report
Because the Department has extended the deadline for institutions to evaluate their Completers Lists until September 30, 2025, those lists will be reverted to draft status in NSLDS by Monday, February 17, 2025.
To access the FVT/GE Completers List, request the ad hoc report, FVT and GE Completers List Report (GEFVC1), from the NSLDS Reports Tool on the NSLDS Professional Access website. This report will be delivered to the SAIG TG mailbox associated with the requesting user in fixed-width format using the message class GEFVCMOP from the NSLDS TG Mailbox ‘TG50012’. This report may also be downloaded in Excel format.
For more information about the FVT and GE Completers List Report, refer to Volume 3, Chapter 5, of the NSLDS FVT/GE User Guide.