CollegeScores {Lock5Data}

College Scorecard

Description

Information on all US post-secondary schools collected by the Department of Education for the College Scorecard

Format

A data frame with 6141 observations on the following 37 variables.

Name

Name of the school

State

State where school is located

ID

ID number for school

Main

Main campus? (1=yes, 0=branch campus)

Accred

Accreditation agency

MainDegree

Predominant undergrad degree (0=not classified, 1=certificate, 2=associate, 3=bachelors,4=only graduate)

HighDegree

Highest degree (0=no degrees, 1=certificate, 2=associate, 3=bachelors, 4= graduate)

Control

Control of school (Private, Profit, Public)

Region

Region of country (Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, Territory, West)

Locale

Locale (City, Rural, Suburb, Town)

Latitude

Latitude

Longitude

Longitude

AdmitRate

Admission rate

MidACT

Median of ACT scores

AvgSAT

Average combined SAT scores

Online

Only online (distance) programs

Enrollment

Undergraduate enrollment

White

Percent of undergraduates who report being white

Black

Percent of undergraduates who report being black

Hispanic

Percent of undergraduates who report being Hispanic

Asian

Percent of undergraduates who report being Asian

Other

Percent of undergraduates who don't report one of the above

PartTime

Percent of undergraduates who are part-time students

NetPrice

Average net price (cost minus aid)

Cost

Average total cost for tuition, room, board, etc.

TuitionIn

In-state tuition and fees

TuitonOut

Out-of-state tuition and fees

TuitionFTE

Net Tuition revenue per FTE student

InstructFTE

Instructional spending per FTE student

FacSalary

Average monthly salary for full-time faculty

FullTimeFac

Percent of faculty that are full-time

Pell

Percent of students receiving Pell grants

CompRate

Completion rate (percent who finish program within 150% of normal time)

Debt

Average debt for students who complete program

Female

Percent of female students

FirstGen

Percent of first-generation students

MedIncome

Median family income (in $1,000)

Details

The US Department of Education maintains a database through its College Scorecard project of demographic information from all active postsecondary educational institutions that participate in Title IV. This dataset contains a small subsets of the variables in the full College Scorecard.

Source

Data downloaded from the US Department of Education's College Scorecard at https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/ (November 2019)