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Academic taxonomy

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A local postsecondary taxonomy conceptually aligned to CIP 2020 for disciplines, subjects, and courses.

10Categories
100Disciplines
300Subjects
1500Courses

About this taxonomy

Taxonomy IDurn:taxonomy:cip-aligned:2026
Version2.0
Version date2026-10-11
Statusactive
PublisherLocal Taxonomy Authority
LicenseCC-BY-4.0
Contacttaxonomy@example.org
Update cycleannual
Languagesen
Scope noteCIP alignment is conceptual. CAT/DIS/SUB/CRS identifiers are locally assigned and are not official CIP codes.

Classification basis

Reference systemCIP 2020
Reference URLhttps://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/
Alignment methodconceptual_manual_review
NoteCategory alignment is conceptual. CAT, DIS, SUB, and CRS identifiers are locally assigned taxonomy codes and are not official CIP codes. Course titles are canonical examples, not an NCES course catalogue.

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Categories

Select a category to explore its disciplines, subjects, and courses.

CAT-0310 disciplines

Life and Health Sciences

active

Biological sciences, biomedical sciences, and clinical health professions including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, and veterinary medicine.

Open category
CAT-0510 disciplines

Engineering and Technology

active

Engineering disciplines and applied technologies covering civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, industrial, aerospace, environmental, mining, petroleum, and biomedical engineering.

Open category
CAT-0610 disciplines

Business and Economics

active

Business administration, accounting, finance, marketing, management, human resources, international business, entrepreneurship, supply chain, economics, and hospitality management.

Open category
CAT-0910 disciplines

Education, Law, and Society

active

Education, educational technology, special education, law, justice studies, and interdisciplinary social fields including Indigenous studies and gender studies.

Open category

Reference

Controlled vocabularies

Levels

introductoryintermediateadvancedlower_divisionupper_divisiongraduateprofessionalcontinuing_education

Statuses

activedraftdeprecatedretired

Alignment Types

exactbroadrelatednarrowno_match

Relationship Types

prerequisite_forcorequisite_forequivalent_tocross_listed_withrecommended_priorleads_to

Delivery Modes

in_persononlinehybridhyflexclinicalpracticum

Assessment Types

examquizassignmentprojectportfoliolabclinicalpresentation

External reference systems

Relationships

FromTypeTo
DIS-0401cross_listed_withDIS-0407
DIS-0406cross_listed_withDIS-0408
DIS-0703cross_listed_withDIS-0805
DIS-0705cross_listed_withDIS-0908
DIS-0710recommended_priorDIS-0609
DIS-0906recommended_priorDIS-0907
DIS-0906recommended_priorDIS-0908
DIS-0906recommended_priorDIS-0909
DIS-0906recommended_priorDIS-0910
DIS-0910cross_listed_withDIS-0702
DIS-0909cross_listed_withDIS-0703
DIS-0805recommended_priorDIS-0801
DIS-1001recommended_priorDIS-1004
DIS-1005recommended_priorDIS-1006
DIS-1006recommended_priorDIS-1007
DIS-1007recommended_priorDIS-1008
DIS-1007recommended_priorDIS-1009
DIS-1007recommended_priorDIS-1010
DIS-1008recommended_priorDIS-1009
DIS-1008recommended_priorDIS-1010
CRS-0101-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0101-01-002
CRS-0101-01-002prerequisite_forCRS-0101-01-003
CRS-0101-01-003prerequisite_forCRS-0101-01-004
CRS-0101-01-004prerequisite_forCRS-0101-01-005
CRS-0101-02-001prerequisite_forCRS-0101-02-002
CRS-0101-02-002prerequisite_forCRS-0101-02-003
CRS-0101-02-003prerequisite_forCRS-0101-02-004
CRS-0101-02-004prerequisite_forCRS-0101-02-005
CRS-0103-02-001prerequisite_forCRS-0103-02-002
CRS-0103-02-002prerequisite_forCRS-0103-02-003
CRS-0103-02-003prerequisite_forCRS-0103-02-004
CRS-0103-02-004prerequisite_forCRS-0103-02-005
CRS-0201-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0201-01-002
CRS-0201-01-002prerequisite_forCRS-0201-01-003
CRS-0201-01-003prerequisite_forCRS-0201-01-004
CRS-0201-01-004prerequisite_forCRS-0201-01-005
CRS-0202-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0202-01-002
CRS-0202-01-002prerequisite_forCRS-0202-01-003
CRS-0202-02-001prerequisite_forCRS-0202-02-002
CRS-0202-02-002prerequisite_forCRS-0202-02-003
CRS-0203-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0203-01-002
CRS-0203-01-002prerequisite_forCRS-0203-01-003
CRS-0203-03-001prerequisite_forCRS-0203-03-002
CRS-0203-03-002prerequisite_forCRS-0203-03-003
CRS-0301-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0301-01-002
CRS-0301-01-002prerequisite_forCRS-0301-01-003
CRS-0303-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0303-01-002
CRS-0303-02-001prerequisite_forCRS-0303-02-002
CRS-0306-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0306-01-002
CRS-0306-02-001prerequisite_forCRS-0306-02-002
CRS-0307-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0307-01-002
CRS-0308-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0308-01-002
CRS-0401-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0401-01-002
CRS-0401-01-002prerequisite_forCRS-0401-01-003
CRS-0401-02-001prerequisite_forCRS-0401-02-002
CRS-0402-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0402-01-002
CRS-0403-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0403-01-002
CRS-0501-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0501-01-002
CRS-0501-01-002prerequisite_forCRS-0501-01-003
CRS-0502-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0502-01-002
CRS-0503-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0503-01-002
CRS-0504-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0504-01-002
CRS-0505-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0505-01-002
CRS-0506-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0506-01-002
CRS-0507-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0507-01-002
CRS-0508-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0508-01-002
CRS-0509-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0509-01-002
CRS-0510-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0510-01-002
CRS-0601-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0601-01-002
CRS-0602-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0602-01-002
CRS-0603-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0603-01-002
CRS-0604-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0604-01-002
CRS-0605-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0605-01-002
CRS-0606-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0606-01-002
CRS-0607-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0607-01-002
CRS-0608-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0608-01-002
CRS-0609-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0609-01-002
CRS-0610-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0610-01-002
CRS-0701-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0701-01-002
CRS-0701-02-001prerequisite_forCRS-0701-02-002
CRS-0702-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0702-01-002
CRS-0703-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0703-01-002
CRS-0704-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0704-01-002
CRS-0705-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0705-01-002
CRS-0706-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0706-01-002
CRS-0707-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0707-01-002
CRS-0708-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0708-01-002
CRS-0709-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0709-01-002
CRS-0710-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0710-01-002
CRS-0801-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0801-01-002
CRS-0802-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0802-01-002
CRS-0803-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0803-01-002
CRS-0804-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0804-01-002
CRS-0805-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0805-01-002
CRS-0806-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0806-01-002
CRS-0807-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0807-01-002
CRS-0808-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0808-01-002
CRS-0809-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0809-01-002
CRS-0810-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0810-01-002
CRS-0901-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0901-01-002
CRS-0901-02-001prerequisite_forCRS-0901-02-002
CRS-0902-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0902-01-002
CRS-0903-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0903-01-002
CRS-0904-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0904-01-002
CRS-0905-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0905-01-002
CRS-0906-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0906-01-002
CRS-0907-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0907-01-002
CRS-0908-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0908-01-002
CRS-0909-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0909-01-002
CRS-0910-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-0910-01-002
CRS-1001-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-1001-01-002
CRS-1001-02-001prerequisite_forCRS-1001-02-002
CRS-1002-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-1002-01-002
CRS-1003-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-1003-01-002
CRS-1004-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-1004-01-002
CRS-1005-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-1005-01-002
CRS-1006-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-1006-01-002
CRS-1007-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-1007-01-002
CRS-1008-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-1008-01-002
CRS-1009-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-1009-01-002
CRS-1010-01-001prerequisite_forCRS-1010-01-002

Change log

VersionDateChange
1.02026-10-10Initial synthetic taxonomy with 10 categories, 100 disciplines, 300 subjects, and 1,500 courses.
2.02026-10-11Expanded schema with metadata, classification basis, code systems, controlled vocabularies, external systems, canonical IDs, CIP mappings, descriptions, keywords, statuses, learning outcomes, topics, assessments, credit/contact hours, delivery modes, and cross-listing. Added top-level relationships and change log. All 10 categories fully expanded in Batches 1-10.
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