HERI is housed in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS) at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Institute's research program covers a variety of topics including the outcomes of post-secondary education, leadership development, institutional transformation, faculty performance, federal and state policy, and educational equity.
The available information comes primarily from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP).
[2] CIRP is the largest and oldest empirical study of higher education in the United States.
The data covered by these surveys ranges from basic demographics to the political views of students.