New College Scorecard To Help Select College
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Obama Rolls Out College Scorecard on New Federal Website
September 12, 2015 — 3:39 PM MST
Georgia Institute of Technology may be one of the best higher education values for low-income students in the U.S., while students seeking a high chance of graduating from a public school should probably choose the University of Virginia, according to a new government scorecard.
The cheapest school for low-income students who want to make money? Surprisingly, the data suggest it’s Harvard University, one of the priciest universities in the nation.
Those are some of the results of data crunching by the U.S Department of Education, compiled on a new federal government website that is meant to provide students with more precise metrics to guide their college choices.
The website was introduced by President Barack Obama in his weekly radio address Saturday, after his administration in June abandoned a more aggressive plan to rate colleges against one another as a way to control costs and make sure students were getting the best value for their tuition dollar.
“Many existing college rankings reward schools for spending more money and rejecting more students -– at a time when America needs our colleges to focus on affordability and supporting all students who enroll,” Obama said, touting the importance of the new site, www.collegescorecard.ed.gov.
It does not provide a single head-to-head ranking of universities, which was part of the earlier proposal criticized by some college presidents. However, it does highlight groups of schools that do particularly well in metrics like graduation rates, cost to low-income students, and salaries of graduates.
High Incomes
The list of schools with low costs that lead to high incomes contains some of the most expensive colleges in the country, including Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University and Williams College, a liberal arts college.
But tuition for low-income students at those schools is heavily subsidized by others who pay full price, and the data suggest that for students from families making less than $48,000 a year, they are a good deal. Harvard was the best bargain, at an average net price of $3,386 and median earnings of $87,200 for alumni 10 years out of college.
Virginia, at 93.2 percent, topped the list of graduation rates from public four-year colleges.
Georgia Tech, the Atlanta university with a nationally-ranked computer-science program, made both lists, making it one of the best values in higher education. More than 80 percent of first-time, full-time students go on to graduate from Georgia Tech, whose alumni earned a median salary of $74,000 a decade after graduating.
Obama Rolls Out College Scorecard on New Federal Website
September 12, 2015 — 3:39 PM MST
Georgia Institute of Technology may be one of the best higher education values for low-income students in the U.S., while students seeking a high chance of graduating from a public school should probably choose the University of Virginia, according to a new government scorecard.
The cheapest school for low-income students who want to make money? Surprisingly, the data suggest it’s Harvard University, one of the priciest universities in the nation.
Those are some of the results of data crunching by the U.S Department of Education, compiled on a new federal government website that is meant to provide students with more precise metrics to guide their college choices.
The website was introduced by President Barack Obama in his weekly radio address Saturday, after his administration in June abandoned a more aggressive plan to rate colleges against one another as a way to control costs and make sure students were getting the best value for their tuition dollar.
“Many existing college rankings reward schools for spending more money and rejecting more students -– at a time when America needs our colleges to focus on affordability and supporting all students who enroll,” Obama said, touting the importance of the new site, www.collegescorecard.ed.gov.
It does not provide a single head-to-head ranking of universities, which was part of the earlier proposal criticized by some college presidents. However, it does highlight groups of schools that do particularly well in metrics like graduation rates, cost to low-income students, and salaries of graduates.
High Incomes
The list of schools with low costs that lead to high incomes contains some of the most expensive colleges in the country, including Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University and Williams College, a liberal arts college.
But tuition for low-income students at those schools is heavily subsidized by others who pay full price, and the data suggest that for students from families making less than $48,000 a year, they are a good deal. Harvard was the best bargain, at an average net price of $3,386 and median earnings of $87,200 for alumni 10 years out of college.
Virginia, at 93.2 percent, topped the list of graduation rates from public four-year colleges.
Georgia Tech, the Atlanta university with a nationally-ranked computer-science program, made both lists, making it one of the best values in higher education. More than 80 percent of first-time, full-time students go on to graduate from Georgia Tech, whose alumni earned a median salary of $74,000 a decade after graduating.
Obama Rolls Out College Scorecard on New Federal Website
It is important to attend the best college possible for the least amount of money. College does not payoff for blacks like it does for whites.
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the problem is that the best value in education is if your family income is less than 48k, but kids from these families don't seem to be equipped academically to take advantage of this and can't get into these highly selective schools.
Exactly. These kids then wind up at colleges that will accept almost everyone. Once they graduate they usually don't get good paying jobs and can't pay their students loans and are worse off financially than if they had never gone to college.
Public, four-year colleges, ranked by highest median debt of completing students:
- Central State University ($39,068)
- Grambling State University ($38,173)
- South Carolina State University ($37,000)
- Fort Valley State University ($35,500)
- Kentucky State University ($34,942)
- Lincoln University of Pennsylvania ($33,830)
- Texas Southern University ($33,763)
- Alabama A&M University ($33,612)
- Alabama State University ($33,452)
- Savannah State University ($32,887)
5 College Rankings Based on the White House’s New College Scorecard Data – The Ticker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Here is a list of colleges with high graduation rates committed to meeting the financial needs of low-income students. Of course they require high grades and SAT/ACT scores.
Supposedly they are creating a program that will start advising 9th graders what they need to do throughout high school in order to meet the admissions requirements of these types of colleges. 80 colleges and universities announce plan for new application and new approach to preparing high school students | InsideHigherEd
Supposedly they are creating a program that will start advising 9th graders what they need to do throughout high school in order to meet the admissions requirements of these types of colleges. 80 colleges and universities announce plan for new application and new approach to preparing high school students | InsideHigherEd
- Amherst College
- Bates College
- Bowdoin College
- Brown University
- Bryn Mawr College
- California Institute of Technology
- Carleton College
- Clemson University
- Colby College
- Colgate University
- College of the Holy Cross
- College of William & Mary
- Colorado College
- Columbia University
- Connecticut College
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Davidson College
- Duke University
- Emory University
- Franklin & Marshall College
- Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Grinnell College
- Hamilton College
- Harvard University
- Haverford College
- Illinois State University
- Indiana University at Bloomington
- James Madison University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Miami University of Ohio
- Michigan State University
- Middlebury College
- Mount Holyoke College
- North Carolina State University
- Northeastern University
- Northwestern University
- Oberlin College
- Ohio State University
- Penn State
- Pomona College
- Princeton University
- Purdue University
- Reed College
- Rice University
- Rutgers University at New Brunswick
- Skidmore College
- Smith College
- St. Olaf College
- Stanford University
- State University of New York at Geneseo
- State University of New York at Buffalo
- Swarthmore College
- Texas A&M University
- Tufts University
- Union College
- University of Chicago
- University of Connecticut
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Maryland at College Park
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
- University of Missouri
- University of New Hampshire
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Rochester
- University of South Carolina
- University of Vermont
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- Vanderbilt University
- Vassar College
- Virginia Tech
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Wellesley College
- Wesleyan University
- Williams College
- Yale University
This NPR story has an easy to use search engine to find out annual cost of college based on family income.
What You'll Actually Pay At 1,550 Colleges
What You'll Actually Pay At 1,550 Colleges
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I didn't go to one of the academies but I got a ROTC scholarship that covered my entire 4 years at the Univ. of Nebraska. After which I went to PA school (UNMC), on Uncle Sam's dime as well. So ROTC is an option and, in all honesty, the requirements aren't very stringent. Truth be told, I know teenagers with more sense than some of these jokers.
The military academies are not in the database. I don't recommend them but they are free and pay a monthly stipend. If you have bad grades and a low SAT score they may accept you through their preparatory school.
Pros: education/marketable career.
Cons: shyt can get real, real fast i.e. Iraq/Afghanistan.
I didn't go to one of the academies but I got a ROTC scholarship that covered my entire 4 years at the Univ. of Nebraska. After which I went to PA school (UNMC), on Uncle Sam's dime as well. So ROTC is an option and, in all honesty, the requirements aren't very stringent. Truth be told, I know teenagers with more sense than some of these jokers.
Pros: education/marketable career.
Cons: shyt can get real, real fast i.e. Iraq/Afghanistan.
Yes, ROTC is a much better option to the academies. You get a larger selection of majors and you get to live as an adult during college and make your own decisions.
Tiger Mom's, Amy Chua, daughter joined Army ROTC at Harvard.