College Scorecard

College Scorecard

College Scorecard provides institution-level data on tuition, admissions rates, SAT/ACT scores, graduation rates, post-graduation earnings, student demographics, and financial aid for 6000+ US colleges. Filter by state, degree type, program, selectivity. Fields use dot notation: latest.admissions.admission_rate.overall, latest.cost.tuition.in_state, latest.earnings.10_yrs_after_entry.median.

Data Model

• Schools — individual institutions with OPEID, name, city, state, Carnegie classification, ownership (public/private/for-profit), degree type.
• Admissions — acceptance rates, SAT/ACT score distributions (25th/50th/75th percentile).
• Cost — tuition (in-state/out-of-state), net price by income bracket, average faculty salary.
• Outcomes — graduation rates (4yr/6yr/8yr), retention rates, transfer rates, earnings at 6/8/10 years after entry.
• Student body — enrollment, demographics (race, gender, age), Pell grant recipients, first-generation students.

Gotchas

• Field selection — use fields= param with dot-notation paths to limit response size. Without it, responses are very large.
• Pagination — per_page (default 20, max 100) and page params.
• Sort — sort=field_name:asc or sort=field_name:desc.
• Filtering — school.state=CA, latest.admissions.admission_rate.overall__range=0..0.2 for ranges.
• Data prefix — latest. for most recent year, 2020. etc. for specific years.