US Dept of Education College Scorecard (every Title-IV college's cost / debt / earnings)

Dataset · US Department of Education · primary source ↗

Every Title-IV-eligible US college — 6.3k institutions with cost, debt, earnings, completion, and demographics data. Per institution: IPEDS Unit ID, name, location, Carnegie classification, ownership (public/private nonprofit/for-profit), HBCU/women/men/religious flags, enrollment, admission rate, SAT+ACT averages, Pell grant rate, completion + retention rates, 3-year cohort student loan default rate, in-state + out-of-state tuition, average net price (pub/priv), median debt at graduation, median earnings 6 + 10 years after entry, race/ethnicity demographics, first-generation share. Surfaces predatory for-profits + low-earnings programs.

Source agency
US Department of Education
License
CC0 / US public domain
Coverage
6,300+ Title-IV colleges
API endpoint

Keywords

college scorecardstudent loan defaultcollege earningsIPEDSTitle IVHBCUCarnegie classificationpredatory for-profit college

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/. Underlying content is a US federal government work (public domain under 17 USC §105); our derived data is licensed CC0 1.0.

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