College Data: Who Does Your College Think It's Peers Are?

 From the Chronicle of Higher Education Who Does Your College Think It's Peers Are? (2025)

Each year, universities choose their peer institutions when reporting their data to the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, or Ipeds. In return, they receive a customized report that compares their performance to that of their selected peers on various measures, like enrollment, graduation rates, and average staff salaries.

Here are the schools that Loyola chose as a peer:

Here are the schools that chose Loyola as it's peers:

For more about this data, see the Chronicle of Higher Ed's ‘An Art and a Science’: Colleges’ Tricky Task of Selecting Peers (2022).