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Average Net Price at America’s Public Colleges and Universities
Good news: We have new IPEDS data on average net cost. Bad news: Because IPEDS is IPEDS, it’s data from […]
August 27, 2024
How many colleges are there anyway? Version 2022
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of “colleges.” We think we know what we mean when we say it, […]
August 14, 2024
More Gender Breakouts of Admission Data
I’ve written a lot about yield rates over time, and I’ve also written about differences in admission patterns among male […]
July 16, 2024
Changes in AP Scores, 2022 to 2024
Used to be, with a little work, you could download very detailed data on AP results from the College Board […]
July 6, 2024
I Did a Boo Boo
Last night, I looked at a chart that had been tweeted out by Marco Learning, a terrific source for information […]
July 4, 2024
Colleges that might close soon
OK, I admit it. That headline is clickbait. I have no idea which colleges might close in the near future, […]
June 29, 2024
Medical College Admission Data, 2023
This is a reboot of a visualization I did in 2018, which I found fascinating, but which didn’t get much […]
June 26, 2024
How to IPEDS, Part II
This will be the second part of a series of blogposts about how to use IPEDS, The Integrated Postsecondary Education […]
June 6, 2024
How to IPEDS Part I
Most, but not all, of the data visualizations on this site use data from IPEDS, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data […]
June 6, 2024
Changes in Bachelor’s Degrees, 2010 to 2022
There has been a lot written about the death of the English degree in higher education. Is it true? Sort […]
June 3, 2024
Are students fleeing to the south to avoid The Woke? Three possible answers.
The three answers to the question in the title, in case you want to cut to the chase, are “Yes,” […]
May 2, 2024
Private college discount rates for first-year students, 2021
Two quick additions/clarifications to this: The definition of full-pays is those students who receive no institutional funds. EM people don’t […]
April 23, 2024
Collateral Damage of the Rankings Obsession
UF Law slide from 21 to 28 in the US News Law School Rankings. Twenty-eight is not so bad and […]
April 12, 2024
Changes in SAT Scores after Test-optional
One of the intended consequences of test-optional admission policies at some institutions prior to the COVID-19 pandemic was to raise […]
April 2, 2024
The annual graduation rate post
I know I’ve been barking up the tree of “Graduation Rates are inputs, not outputs” for a long time. And […]
March 2, 2024
First-year student diversity in American colleges and universities, 2018-2022
I started this visualization to show how first-year classes at the highly rejective colleges had changed since COVID-19 forced them […]
February 2, 2024
Enrollment is complicated, redux
Enrollment, as I like to say, is complicated. But that never stopped anyone from asking a question like, “How does […]
January 27, 2024
Class Bias and the Deanship of Laura Rosenbury
Laura Rosenbury became the Dean of UF law after a failed search in which the central administration was pushing […]
April 2, 2023
Ben Sasse and Paper Tigers in Academia
This quote caught my eye in the Gainesville Sun today. It is about, Ben Sasse, the likely new president of […]
October 16, 2022
The DeSantification of a University
I cannot help but think of Joseph Welch and his historic face off with Joseph McCarthy when he finally said, […]
May 2, 2022