college {SDAResources}

college data

Description

Selected variables from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard Data (version updated on June 1, 2020). Some of the variables in the book data have been calculated from other variables in the original source; these have been given new variable names that are not found in the data dictionary.

Usage

data(college)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

unitid:

unit identification number

instnm:

institution name (character, length 81)

city:

city (character, length 24)

stabbr:

state abbreviation (character, length 2)

highdeg:

highest degree awarded

3 = Bachelor's degree

4 = Graduate degree

control:

control (ownership) of institution

1 = public

2 = private nonprofit

region:

region where institution is located

1 New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)

2 Mid East (DE, DC, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

3 Great Lakes (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)

4 Plains (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD)

5 Southeast (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

6 Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)

7 Rocky Mountains (CO, ID, MT, UT, WY)

8 Far West (AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA)

locale:

locale of institution

11 City: Large (population of 250,000 or more)

12 City: Midsize (population of at least 100,000 but less than 250,000)

13 City: Small (population less than 100,000)

21 Suburb: Large (outside principal city, in urbanized area with population of 250,000 or more)

22 Suburb: Midsize (outside principal city, in urbanized area with population of at least 100,000 but less than 250,000)

23 Suburb: Small (outside principal city, in urbanized area with population less than 100,000)

31 Town: Fringe (in urban cluster up to 10 miles from an urbanized area)

32 Town: Distant (in urban cluster more than 10 miles and up to 35 miles from an urbanized area)

33 Town: Remote (in urban cluster more than 35 miles from an urbanized area)

41 Rural: Fringe (rural territory up to 5 miles from an urbanized area or up to 2.5 miles from an urban cluster)

42 Rural: Distant (rural territory more than 5 miles but up to 25 miles from an urbanized area or more than 2.5 and up to 10 miles from an urban cluster)

43 Rural: Remote (rural territory more than 25 miles from an urbanized area and more than 10 miles from an urban cluster)

ccbasic:

carnegie basic classification

15 Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity

16 Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity

17 Doctoral/Professional Universities

18 Master's Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs

19 Master's Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs

20 Master's Colleges & Universities: Small Programs

21 Baccalaureate Colleges: Arts & Sciences Focus

22 Baccalaureate Colleges: Diverse Fields

ccsizset:

carnegie classification, size and setting

6 Four-year, very small, primarily nonresidential

7 Four-year, very small, primarily residential

8 Four-year, very small, highly residential

9 Four-year, small, primarily nonresidential

10 Four-year, small, primarily residential

11 Four-year, small, highly residential

12 Four-year, medium, primarily nonresidential

13 Four-year, medium, primarily residential

14 Four-year, medium, highly residential

15 Four-year, large, primarily nonresidential

16 Four-year, large, primarily residential

17 Four-year, large, highly residential

hbcu:

historically black college or university

1 = yes, 0 = no

openadmp:

does the college have an open admissions policy, that is, does it accept any students that apply or have minimal requirements for admission?

1 = yes, 0 = no

adm_rate:

fall admissions rate, defined as the number of admitted undergraduates divided by the number of undergraduates who applied

sat_avg:

average SAT score (or equivalent) for admitted students

ugds:

number of degree-seeking undergraduate students enrolled in the fall term

ugds_men:

proportion of ugds who are men

ugds_women:

proportion of ugds who are women

ugds_white:

proportion of ugds who are white (based on self-reports)

ugds_black:

proportion of ugds who are black/African American (based on self-reports)

ugds_hisp:

proportion of ugds who are Hispanic (based on self-reports)

ugds_asian:

proportion of ugds who are Asian (based on self-reports)

ugds_other:

proportion of ugds who have other race/ethnicity (created from other categories on original data file; race/ethnicity proportions sum to 1)

npt4:

average net price of attendance, derived from the full cost of attendance, including tuition and fees, books and supplies, and living expenses, minus federal, state, and institutional grant scholarship aid, for full time, first time undergraduate Title IV receiving students. NPT4 created from scorecard data variables NPT4_PUB if public institution and NPT4_PRIV if private

tuitionfee_in:

in-state tuition and fees

tuitionfee_out:

out-of-state tuition and fees

avgfacsal:

average faculty salary per month

pftfac:

proportion of faculty that is full-time

c150_4:

proportion of first-year, full-time students who complete their degree within 150% of the expected time to complete; for most institutions, this is the proportion of students who receive a degree within 6 years

grads:

number of graduate students

Details

This data set is made available for pedagogical purposes only. Anyone wishing to draw conclusions from College Scorecard data should obtain the full data set from the Department of Education. The original data set has 1,925 variables and includes institutions (such as those that do not grant undergraduate degrees) that are not in the data college.

The college data includes institutions in the original data set that: (1) are located in the 50 states plus District of Columbia, (2) contain information on average net price (NPT4), (3) are predominantly Bachelor's degree-granting, (4) were currently operating as of June 2020, (5) are not private for-profit institutions or "global" campuses, (6) have Carnegie size classification (variable ccsizset) between 6 and 17 and Carnegie basic classification(variable ccbasic) between 14 and 22 (these offer Bachelor's degrees), (7) enrolls first-time students, and (8) are not U.S. Service Academies.

For all variables, missing data are coded as NA.

References

U.S. Department of Education (2020). College scorecard data. https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/ (accessed August 25, 2020).

Lohr (2021), Sampling: Design and Analysis, 3rd Edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Lu and Lohr (2021), R Companion for Sampling: Design and Analysis, 3rd Edition, 1st Edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.