Editorial Process
PlainCollege publishes under a single organizational byline, listed below, which carries accountability for the data framing, methodology, and corrections on this site. Every profile is built from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, covering more than 6,000 Title IV institutions, and verified against the federal source before publication. According to our documented editorial process, reported figures are checked for unit consistency and plausible ranges, and corrections are traced back to the data layer so a fix reaches every page that uses it, see our methodology and editorial & corrections policy.
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PlainCollege is a data publication that analyzes college outcomes using U.S. Department of Education data. It is small and solo-operated: profiles are generated from the source datasets by a documented pipeline, and the methodology, rankings logic, and narrative text are reviewed against the original releases before publication. PlainCollege accepts no payment from the institutions it covers.
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plaincollege is a data-journalism publisher: we compile public datasets, verify them against their official sources, and present them in plain language. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about and methodology pages.