MPR is a recognized national leader in applied research aimed at understanding what contributes to achieving a postsecondary education. Our research focuses on issues related to equity in college access and completion, student aid, and how students and their families finance their college education. MPR’s expertise includes:

• Twenty years of conducting large-scale quantitative statistical analysis studies for the U.S. Department of Education.
• Leadership in conducting research on student financial aid, debt burden, and what students pay for college.
• Mastery of the technical issues related to survey design, data collection, and data preparation.
• A track record of developing innovative, efficient methods for streamlining data preparation, analysis, and dissemination procedures.
• More than a decade of experience developing, maintaining, and documenting data analysis tools.