Professional Associations/Organizations
- American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO)
- American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
- American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
- American College Personnel Association (ACPA)
- American Council on Education (ACE)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)
- Association for Institutional Research (AIR)
- Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
- Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
- Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB)
- Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Carnegie Classification)
- Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University
- Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC)
- Education Commission of the States
- Educause
- Hewlett Foundation
- Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA
- National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO)
- National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA)
- National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
- National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
- National Education Association (NEA) – Higher Education Research Center
- National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Society of Research Administrators International (SRA)
- Spencer Foundation
- State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- World Bank: Tertiary Education