What type of information is available about individual colleges?

A tremendous amount of information is available about each of the 2,000 colleges in the COLLEGEdata database, including detailed information about admissions, financial aid, costs, academics, and campus life. All colleges in our database are U.S. institutions that offer baccalaureate programs (such as B.A., B.S., B.F.A., etc.). Two-year institutions and institutions outside of the U.S. are not included.

We license much of the college information from third-party data providers. They obtain the data directly from the individual colleges.

The results of the College Chances and College Net Price Calculator tools are calculated by COLLEGEdata using information reported by the colleges. These results are not provided by the colleges.