Colleges and Universities in the United StatesThis feature layer, utilizing data from Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD), displays colleges and universities in the U.S. and its territories. According to HIFLD, this feature layer "is composed of all Post Secondary Education facilities as defined by the Integrated Post Secondary Education System (IPEDS, https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/), National Center for Education Statistics (NCES, https://nces.ed.gov/), US Department of Education for the 2019-2020 school year. Included are Doctoral/Research Universities, Masters Colleges and Universities, Baccalaureate Colleges, Associates Colleges, Theological seminaries, Medical Schools and other health care professions, Schools of engineering and technology, business and management, art, music, design, Law schools, Teachers colleges, Tribal colleges, and other specialized institutions."Washington and Lee University & Virginia Military InstituteData currency: This cached Esri service is checked monthly for updates from its source (Colleges and Universities).Data modification: noneFor more information: U.S. Department of Education; National Center for Education Statistics; Integrated Postsecondary Education Data SystemFor feedback, please contact: ArcGIScomNationalMaps@esri.comHomeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD)Per HIFLD, "The Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Subcommittee was established…to address improvements in collection, processing, sharing, and protection of homeland infrastructure geospatial information across multiple levels of government, and to develop a common foundation of homeland infrastructure data to be used for visualization and analysis on all classification domains."