How College Net Prices Changed, 2013–2023
A fixed-span analysis of annual College Scorecard average-net-price trends, with reproducible cohort rules, fitted slopes, limitations, rankings, and a downloadable dataset.
Research
Original data research published by PlainCollege. Every figure is pulled live from our current dataset at the moment you load the page, never hardcoded.
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What this research covers
PlainCollege research computes College Scorecard joins across 6,243 schools and 2,298 programs in 56 states, with 70,827 program-earnings rows available for field-level studies.
According to the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard.
- 6,243
- schools in the live Scorecard mirror
- 2,298
- programs catalogued
- 56
- states covered
Each note below states its cohort rule, Scorecard vintage, and what the figures cannot tell you.
Top 10 Bachelor's Programs by Average Median Earnings
College Scorecard program-earnings data ranking US bachelor's programs by average median earnings six years post-enrollment, calculated live from our current program-earnings data.
Top 10 US States by Average 10-Year Former-Student Earnings
States and territories ranked by the institution-weighted average of 10-year former-student earnings in PlainCollege's current Scorecard snapshot.
Top 10 US Colleges by 10-Year Former-Student Earnings
Active US colleges ranked by 10-year median earnings for the Scorecard's federally aided entry cohort, using the July 2026 institution snapshot.
Download the College Scorecard state summary cited on this page: plaincollege-state-summary.csv (U.S. Department of Education · CC BY-SA 4.0).