The desire to move up is endemic in higher education. So the most recent update of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, released in December 2021 for a public-review period, reveals a much hoped-for outcome for some colleges.
Initially, nine universities were to join the highest level of research institutions in the updated list, produced by the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University’s School of Education, and last updated in 2018. Among the new members of this group of “Doctoral/Very High Research” institutions at the time were Baylor, Old Dominion, and Utah State Universities, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
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