Whether Your Institution Needs To Update FVT/GE Reporting for the 2024 or 2025 Cycles OR You Are Having Questions/Concerns Regarding Submission of 2026 Cycle Data

CSPEN Can Help

Overview

The deadline for submission of the Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment (FVT/GE) data for the 2026 Reporting Cycle is a week from Thursday, October 1, 2026, as required under 34 CFR 668.408(a) (us.list-manage.com/mBbV3SWDHCV?e=05bce952ad&c2id=828e2f13ae2569477ba2b7da4ef30812) . Additionally, any unreported FVT/GE data from the 2024 and 2025 Reporting Cycles is due by January 15, 2027.

As these deadlines approach, the Department of Education (the Department) is taking efforts to answer institutions’ questions about how to submit the required data, with the objective of reducing the amount of headache and confusion about the data reporting requirements. The Department detailed in (GENERAL-26-49) Guidance on FVT/GE Data Reporting, STATS Early Implementation, and Next Steps for Publication (Updated Aug. 28, 2026) (us.list-manage.com/GW0WDS9szdy?e=05bce952ad&c2id=828e2f13ae2569477ba2b7da4ef30812) that (us.list-manage.com/13llkFjNA8c?e=05bce952ad&c2id=828e2f13ae2569477ba2b7da4ef30812) more than 1,900 institutions have not reported or under-reported FVT/GE data from the 2024 and 2025 reporting cycles, which were originally due Sept. 30, 2025, and Oct. 1, 2025, respectively.

The Department would like to encourage and assist these 1,900 institutions to submit the data before the new deadline. Yesterday, the Department reached out to CSPEN, among others within the higher education community, seeking to open a communication channel through our network to notify the higher education community that they will work directly with CSPEN to proactively answer the questions/challenges institutions may be facing.

To that end, CSPEN is asking for any institution with questions/challenges about reporting FVT/GE data to share them directly with Tom Netting, who will be meeting with senior Department officials to share your case-studies and questions next week.

During conversations, the Under Secretary’s office stated, “the Trump Administration remains committed to this data collection and reporting, as articulated in the earnings accountability/STATS final rule. That said, our objective is to help minimize the amount of anxiety and confusion during the transition to the new data reporting regulations.” Noting further that they understand that there has been a long and (sometimes) complicated history with the data reporting.

Share your information directly with Co-Executive Director Tom Netting at tom@tengovtstrategies.com by no later than COB next Tuesday, September 29th in preparation for a meeting on Wednesday, September 30th .