The NSPA-SPE-FIELD list contains professions associated with scholarship programs.
Standard Name: NSPA Field of Study List Standard ID: NSPA-SPE-FIELD-v1.0-1 Issued By: NSPA Version: 1.0e-1 Obsoletes: NSPA-SPE-FIELD-v1.0d-1 Obsoleted By: --
Overview
The purpose of the NSPA-SPE-FIELD list is to define fields of study related to scholarship program eligibility criteria.
Usage
In the NSPA List definitions, a field of study can apply to future intentions, current, or past fields of study. The list is roughly analogous to a college major but is not intended to cover majors exhaustively.
The human-readable list of fields is mapped to CIP Codes (see below). Often, one field maps to multiple CIP Codes. Conveniently, the NSPA Scholarship Program Data Standard supports both a human-readable field of study name and multiple CIP Codes.
Sources
NSPA members. Multiple NSPA members provided input and insight into the Field of Study list — notably the College Board, which supplied the basis for the current list and a thoughtful mapping to CIP codes.
CIP Codes (2020). The NSPA List of definitions maps to the Classification of Instructional Programs Code values (CIP Codes) issued by the U.S. Department of Education. The NSPA data model allows for one or more CIP Codes to be associated with each Field of Study entry.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security STEM List. The U.S. DHS publishes a list of CIP Codes it considers to be STEM-focused.
References
This official and detailed list may be consulted to fill in logical gaps or to standardize values on the current code list: