Understanding net price
Net price is the average a student actually pays after grants and scholarships — not the sticker price. We show the in-state, full-time undergraduate figure reported by the Department of Education.
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How UniScorecard works — guides to the numbers, our methodology, and when the data was last refreshed.
Guides
Short, jargon-free explanations of the data behind each number on this site.
How to read graduation rates
Our graduation rate is the share of first-time, full-time students who finish a four-year degree within six years (or a two-year degree within three years for two-year colleges).
Admission rates in context
Admission rate is the percentage of applicants offered admission. Very low rates do not always mean a school is the right fit — selectivity is one data point, not a quality verdict.
What 'partial' data means
Many small or specialized institutions only report a subset of fields. We label these as Partial so you can see what's available without inflating averages.
Methodology
Source. All data is from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard — Most Recent Cohorts (Institution-level) data file. Updated 2026-03-23.
Fields included. We extract a focused subset of about 25 fields per institution: location, control/level, size, admission rate, SAT/ACT averages, net price, in- and out-of-state tuition, cost of attendance, six-year graduation rate, retention, median earnings 10 years after entry, and the share of degrees awarded in each program area.
Data status labels. Each school is labelled Complete, Partial, or Missing based on how many of the headline fields are reported. Many small or vocational schools only report a subset — that is normal.
Aggregates. National and state numbers are medians, not means, to avoid distortion by very large or unusual institutions. Counts include all institutions in the file, including ones with missing detail data.
Programs. Programs are grouped by the first two digits of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code. The percentages on a school page are the share of degrees and certificates awarded in that program area.
What we don't show. Field-of-study earnings, debt by program, and Title IV-specific outcomes are out of scope for this snapshot. For those, see collegescorecard.ed.gov/data.
Data updates
When this site's snapshot was last refreshed.
Current snapshot
2026-03-23
6,322 institutions in this build.
The College Scorecard institutional file is published roughly once per academic year. We refresh this snapshot when a new file is posted at collegescorecard.ed.gov/data.
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