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College Scorecard

White House powered open database for exploring US colleges

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Jason Shen
@jasonshen · Product Manager, Etsy
This is a fantastic resource for high students and exposes data like average salary after graduation and percentage of students who have paid off their student debt X years out. Great work by @ultrasaurus and @diegomayercantu (who should assigned as makers) Excerpt from a recent NYTimes article: But some more well-known institutions weren’t far behind. At … See more
Ellis Neder
@ellis · Product Designer
See also @ProPublica's recent work on Pell grants, student debt and how colleges support their poorest students financially: 'Debt by Degrees' https://projects.propublica.org/...
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Chris Messina
@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
This is a great resource and application of open data: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pr...
Michael Sitver
@msitver · Curator @ Morning Short, Commute Kit
It was a nice try by the administration, and the UX is great (particularly in terms of quantifying data). It's missing some important pieces of information though, such as how it counts students who go directly to grad school, and certain popular degrees (i.e Economics). Definately a solid first start though.
Connor Lee
@connorrlee · Founder at Hosty.club
See noodle.com for a more comprehensive search for k-12 schools and colleges.