The FICE code is a six-digit identification code used to identify institutions of

higher education in the United States Higher education in the United States is an optional stage of formal learning following secondary education. Higher education is also referred as post-secondary education, third-stage, third-level, or tertiary education. It covers stages 5 to 8 ...

. It was initially used to identify schools doing business with the

Office of Education The Office of Education, at times known as the Department of Education and the Bureau of Education, was a small unit in the Federal Government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1867 to 1972. It is now separated i ...

during the early sixties. It is named after the

Federal Interagency Committee on Education Federal or foederal (archaic) may refer to: Politics General *Federal monarchy, a federation of monarchies *Federation, or ''Federal state'' (federal system), a type of government characterized by both a central (federal) government and states or ...

. This code is no longer used in federal data sets such as the

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is a system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a part of the Institute for Education Sciences within the United States Depar ...

, having been replaced by the Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) code. It is still used by some state governments, such as Texas.{{Cite web, url=https://research.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/Public_Data.pdf, title=Additional Public Data, website=University of Texas, access-date=2017-02-28

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List of FICE codes
Higher education in the United States Unique identifiers