Every college's Common Data Set.
Side by side. Multi-year.
Compare admissions, financial aid, outcomes, financial health, earnings, and campus safety for 362 U.S. colleges — grounded in each school's officially-reported Common Data Set, joined with federal data from the Department of Education.
Three views of every covered school
Built for parents, counselors, and applicants who want to compare apples to apples — not marketing copy.
Side-by-side compare
Pick up to four schools. Every CDS field renders in parallel columns — admit rate, SAT/ACT mid, aid package, six-year grad rate, first-year retention — with the strictly-best value highlighted.
Multi-year trends
Every metric carries a multi-year history. See whether a school's admit rate is rising or falling, whether aid generosity is tracking inflation, whether SAT mid is drifting. Snapshot fields lie; trend lines don't.
Federal data overlay
The Common Data Set is the spine. We join in Department of Education sources — College Scorecard earnings, EADA athletics, Clery campus safety, FSA financial responsibility scores — so you can read the whole school in one place.
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Methodology
Each school's Common Data Set — the standardized self-reported form U.S. colleges file annually — is the spine. We extract every section A–J from the school's officially-published CDS PDF, xlsx, docx, or HTML and normalize into one schema.
On top of that we layer four federal data sources: College Scorecard for earnings and debt outcomes, EADA for athletics, Clery for campus crime, and FSA Composite Score for financial responsibility. Every value is traceable to its primary source and refreshed monthly.