College students in their senior year are faced with a variety stresses as they prepare to enter the world. Courtesy of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) we will provide you with briefs of their major surveys. They are the largest and oldest empirical study of higher education in the United States and has administered by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA since 1973. Full reports of their research and/or custom research are available from them. Here is the brief of their survey of first year college student: