Concept: Educational Taxonomy

The Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) code is a classification of academic programs by the U.S. Department of Education. Every postsecondary school that receives federal student financial aid funds must use CIP codes to report their program data to the government. In accordance, Workday includes the CIP Codes for you to assign to your programs of study. Colleges and universities across the country assign CIP codes to their academic programs.

Workday uses this value for enrollment reporting to the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). We recommend that you maintain programs of study with the latest CIP Code Edition, to reduce errors in the data you send to the NSC.

In Workday, you can assign CIP codes to:

Programs of study.
Program focus.
General educational interests.

Workday maintains the classification codes as set by the Department of Education.

For a complete list, access the

View CIP Codes

report, secured to the

Set Up: Academic Units

domain. The Workday-delivered report is view-only. If you need to look up your CIP code, you can find it on your Form I-20.

To set up educational taxonomy schemes and codes to support state, local, or other classification requirements, you can use the

Create Educational Taxonomy Scheme

task, secured to the

Set Up: Academic Structure

domain.

To view taxonomy codes and schemes, use the

Find Educational Taxonomy Scheme

report.

To edit a taxonomy scheme, find the scheme and select

Educational Taxonomy Scheme

Edit

from the related actions menu. You can't remove codes that are in use.

When you select a

Code Format

, all the codes in a scheme must follow the format.

To support state transfer policies:

Set up educational taxonomy codes with the state numbering system.
Assign the educational taxonomy codes to courses on external transcripts and in your course inventory.

Enter these values to define a taxonomy scheme called TOP:

Field	Value
Country	United States of America
Name	TOP
Description	Taxonomy of Programs
Inactive	Leave blank
Code Format	NNNN.NN

Add a line and enter these values in the grid:

Field	Value
Code	0934.10
Description	Computer Electronics