Clearinghouse Facts

The National Student Clearinghouse, a non-profit organization, was founded by the higher education community in 1993.
Only the Clearinghouse offers access to a nationwide coverage of enrollment and degree records — encompassing more than 130 million students and growing.
Our secondary education research initiative, launched in 2009, will provide the first national secondary education research and reporting system.
The research arm of the Clearinghouse, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, was created in 2010.

More than 3,400 colleges and universities, enrolling over 96% of all students in public and private U.S. institutions, participate in the Clearinghouse
Our degree verification service, DegreeVerify, represents over 85% of U.S. four-year degrees.
Nearly 3,000 institutions participate in our enrollment verification service, EnrollmentVerify, representing over 90% of currently enrolled U.S. college students.
Hundreds of high school districts and thousands of high schools participate in the Clearinghouse.
All guarantors and most major student loan lenders and servicers participate in the Clearinghouse.
Thousands of the nation's largest employers, recruiters and background search firms have contracted with the Clearinghouse to perform secure, online academic verifications.

The Clearinghouse performs more than 700 million electronic student record verifications annually.
Nearly 3 million degrees are confirmed through DegreeVerify each year.
More than 1 million enrollment verifications are performed through EnrollmentVerify each year.
Transcripts are requested for nearly 2 million recipients each year via our Transcript Ordering service.
Our free Student Self-Service program is used by more than 2 million students each year.