Tools & Calculators
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Free, no-sign-up tools built on plaincollege's 6,243-school College Scorecard archive.
- 6,243
- Schools tracked
- 82%
- Carry earnings data
Enrollment ≠ earnings
Southern New Hampshire University leads U.S. colleges by reported undergraduate enrollment (163,164 students, #1 of 5,451) but ranks #1342 of 4654 on 10-year median earnings ($50,318), while Massachusetts Institute of Technology tops the earnings list at $143,372 (#1 of 4,654) with 4,535 students (#807 of 5,451). Size and payoff are different Scorecard questions.
According to the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard.
- 163,164
- Southern New enrollment #1
- $143,372
- Massachusetts Institute earnings #1
- #1
- Enrollment rank of earnings leader
- #1342
- Earnings rank of enrollment leader
Headcount and 10-year earnings come from different Scorecard/IPEDS fields, our calculators let you filter on either axis.
What's in the archive
Share of 6,243 operating schools carrying each data layer our tools draw on.
- Institution profile
Institution profile
6,243 schools
- Earnings (10-yr median)
Earnings (10-yr median)
5,103 schools
- Net price & cost
Net price & cost
5,020 schools
- 150%-time completion rate
150%-time completion rate
4,858 schools
- Admissions / selectivity 1,909
Admissions / selectivity
1,909 schools
What this shows Every tracked school has a base institution profile; 82% also carry institution-level former-student earnings and 31% carry admissions data, the layers our calculators and lookups draw on directly.
Download the College Scorecard state summary cited on this page: plaincollege-state-summary.csv (U.S. Department of Education · CC BY-SA 4.0).