Dr. Glenn Lang shares how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education debuted a new classification system focused on student success. While the former Basic Classification relied on the highest degree an institution awards, even if that reflected a small portion of the institution, the new Institutional Classification system uses multiple characteristics, including size, degree types awarded and fields of study, to group institutions into 31 categories. And since institutions are grouped with peers sharing similar characteristics across those dimensions, it prevents dissimilar institutions from landing in the same category—one of the problems with the old metrics.