Automate Your PDP

Your End‑to‑End
PDP Solution

Datura automates your Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP) submission and validates everything before it reaches the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). We connect your Analysis-Ready files with the rest of your institutional data for a super dataset that powers dashboards and delivers predictions in real time.

Spend your time learning from the data, not submitting it.

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datura platform · end-to-end
01 · Ingest
Your Institutional Data
SQLDatabaseExtracts
02 · Automate
Clean · Derive · Format
studentsenrollmentsterms+2
03 · Validate
Data Quality Checks Passed ✓
NSC · National Student Clearinghouse
Submission Accepted ✓
04 · Analyze
Super Dataset
05 · Anticipate
Real-Time Predictions
The PDP Supercharges Institutional Insights

You already know the value of the PDP.

The Postsecondary Data Partnership shows you where your students go once they leave — where they transfer, whether they finish, how their momentum builds over time. That visibility opens real opportunities: more targeted program review, the potential for reverse-transfer degrees, equity gaps you can finally act on. But too many colleges never get that far — they get stuck building complex submission files, or get buried in hundreds of errors.

Datura makes submissions fast and repeatable.

Process, validate, and submit to the NSC in hours, not days.
Future submissions are automated.

YOUR INSTITUTION ENROLLMENT 4-YR TRANSFER 2-YR TRANSFER CERTIFICATE STOP-OUT

The PDP Suite

Submit, Validate, Unlock Real Value.

PHASE 1

Get the PDP Submission Right

AutoPDP

Raw SIS data in. Validated, submission-ready PDP files out.

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ValidityPDP

Any PDP file checked for errors and validated before the NSC sees it.

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PHASE 2

Surface Real Value

SuperPDP

PDP and other institutional reporting data, merged into one super dataset with dashboards.

In Development

PDPredict

Real-time predictive analytics on the super dataset.

Roadmap
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AutoPDP

Automated PDP Submission

From raw data to submission-ready PDP files.

Reads your existing reporting database or extracts, applies the hard derivations — cohorts, enrollment type, momentum, co-requisite concurrency, GPAs — and produces all five submission files to exact NSC spec.

  • Configuration, not custom code
  • SIS/ERP agnostic — can work with Colleague, Banner, and PeopleSoft
  • Proven — multiple NSC-accepted, error-free submissions recorded
autopdp — submission run
SIS · SQL Server reporting DB
↓
Clean
Derive
Format
Validate
↓
students addresses enrollments terms programs
run complete · 103/103 variables conform · ready for NSC submission
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ValidityPDP

Standalone PDP Validator

Know exactly what the Clearinghouse will say — before you press submit.

ValidityPDP ends the submit-reject-resubmit cycle. Find the issues in your data immediately, not after the NSC rejects your files or the dashboard reveals misalignments.

  • Precise, per-variable findings — correct everything in one pass and submit error-free.
  • Validates PDP submission files — by comparing submissions to public data, which helps catch quality and accuracy issues early.
  • Runs standalone and offline — your data never leaves your environment
validitypdp — course_file_2026.csv
103/103 variables checked · 2 findings
✓CohortTermformat valid
✓EnrollmentTypeall values conform
!GPA_Cumulative8% interim values
✕AddressLine13 format errors → would reject
Population Report
CohortTerm
GPA
Gateway
real interim blank
In Development

SuperPDP

Merged Data & Institutional Analytics

The data you already produce, working as one.

Joins your PDP files with other institutional data for one super dataset, then delivers dashboards with insights never before possible. Get the richest perspective available on enrollment, awards, transfer, momentum, and equity. No new data collection.

  • Merges PDP with other institutional reporting data — one cross-validated view of every student pathway
  • Descriptive and prescriptive — who, what, insight into why
  • The super dataset — the most powerful data asset your institution has ever had
superpdp — institutional overview
Fall Retention
71%
▲ 2.4 pts YoY
Early Momentum
43%
▲ 1.1 pts YoY
3-Yr Completion
28%
▼ 0.6 pts YoY
Momentum Rate by Pathway
STEM
Business
Health
Liberal Arts
CTE
Roadmap

PDPredict

Predictive Analytics

You can only predict well from data you trust.

Early-alert risk scoring, completion and transfer likelihood, momentum-loss prediction — built on the super dataset cleaned by AutoPDP, verified by ValidityPDP, and unified by SuperPDP.

  • Early-alert risk scoring — see who needs help while help still helps
  • Completion & transfer likelihood — grounded in your own validated history
pdpredict — early alert (preview)
COHORT MOMENTUM · OBSERVED → FORECAST today forecast
student ··4821High Riskgateway math stall
student ··1937Watchmomentum dip, term 2
student ··6204On Tracktransfer-likely
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