https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/

After digging through the website, this is a really good resource for the college attendance decision process. Lots of great data, clearly presented, and without the rankings spin.

I refuse to believe that I'm the only data nerd that spent some time looking through this. There are some really strong ROI universities out there that generally don't get as much respect from the traditional college rankings. There are also some way over-valued schools that seem like a poor deal once you dig into the specifics.

Too little data here... Sorry but at a school of 30K kids and more than 100 programs the "average" cost, salary, and graduation rate are meaningless..

I posted something on it on the Rice site. I bookmarked the site and would probably go back to it in a few years when my daughters are looking at colleges.

Very good info there IMO. Ill pass this along to some friends that have kids.

Except that it seems to leave a few schools off the score card.

Some schools don't accept federal funding

(09-17-2015 04:41 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  Too little data here... Sorry but at a school of 30K kids and more than 100 programs the "average" cost, salary, and graduation rate are meaningless..

I agree. I looked at the data and although they list different programs the average starting wages are the same for everyone from the college.