Corrections
If a tuition, net price, earnings, graduation rate, ranking, or program figure on PlainCollege looks wrong, report it with enough detail to reproduce the page and compare it with the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard or IPEDS record for that institution or program. The full editorial process is documented in our editorial and corrections policy.
How to report
- Report. Email hello@plaincollege.com or use the contact page with the page URL, the figure that looks off, and what you think it should be.
- Verify. Include a link to the College Scorecard institution or field-of-study record, or an IPEDS table, you think we should match.
- Scope. Say whether the issue is a raw federal field, a derived ranking or ratio, a suppressed cohort, or a stale data-vintage badge.
What happens next
We verify reports against the published College Scorecard / IPEDS source for that institution or program and correct confirmed issues in the canonical database or pipeline so affected pages update together. Material fixes are noted on the public data changelog. PlainCollege is an informational research reference, not admissions, financial, or enrollment advice.
When the figure is correct on our side but the upstream federal release is the latest published file, we will say so and point you to the official record. We mirror published federal extracts and cannot rewrite a college's Scorecard filing on its behalf.
For how figures are derived, see the methodology page. For publisher accountability, see About PlainCollege.
Open Data
Download the compiled state-level College Scorecard summary as plaincollege-state-summary.csv (same CSV as the homepage Dataset), or browse every extract from the open data catalog. Underlying federal fields remain public-source; cite PlainCollege when you reuse the compiled table.
Download the College Scorecard state summary cited on this page: plaincollege-state-summary.csv (U.S. Department of Education · CC BY-SA 4.0).