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College Navigator
  • Search for over 9000 colleges, universities and trade schools in the U.S.
  • Tailor search by region, state or city; type of school; degree programs
  • Data includes tuition, enrollment, and degrees granted by the largest programs
College Rankings (US News and World Report)
  • Ranks colleges nationally, by region, and state; friendliness to international students; diversity
  • Search for best college by geography, religion, major, co-ed, selectivity and cost
  • Includes graduate school rankings for over 30 detailed disciplines
College View
  • Search 3500 colleges and universities by name or a combination of preferences (state, characteristics of student body, size of city, etc.)
  • Statistics for schools includes student body, minority representation of faculty, tuition, and SAT scores
Data Analysis System (NCES)
  • For data and correlations of major NCES studies
  • National Post-Secondary Study Aid Study
  • National Study of Post-Secondary Faculty
  • Baccalaureate and Beyond
Data Ferret (BLS/Census)
  • Data sets from the Current Population Survey and Survey of Income and Program Participation for easy or expert manipulation
    • Surveys update and enhance the Decennial Census with national, state, and metropolitan area information
    • Subjects include income, poverty, employment, education, health insurance, housing, aging, household and marital status
    • Income, poverty, and health insurance were the trial data sets as of May 31, 1997
Diplomas Count 2008
  • Report provides high school graduation rates for 2005 by state and Congressional District with projections for 2008
  • Analyzes success of states which have adopted P-16 (preschool through college) boards to ease transition from high school to college
  • Charts list state policies on college/work readiness, advanced diploma, and exit exam policies
Diversity News (U Md/Ford Foundation)
  • Articles and statistics on campus diversity issues designed to provide background for news reporters
  • Subjects include student admissions and retention, affirmative action in hiring, campus trends, diversity issues in society
  • Includes model curriculum on diversity
  • Web site searchable by keyword of a pulldown menu of diversity issues
Dropout Rates in the United States
  • School dropout rates by student characteristics (ethnicity, income, age) and status
  • Sections on immigration and people with disabilities
  • Most data is national with one table on high school completion by state
  • Continuing series of publications
Earnings by Occupation and Education
  • Documents Center CD-ROM Do35a-c
  • Median hourly earnings, annual earnings, and number of hours worked for 514 individual occupations by age, sex, and educational attainment or larger occupational groups by age, sex, race and education
  • Data for the United States, States, CMSAs, MSAs, and PMSAs
Education (Census Bureau)
  • Educational attainment by sex and race for the nation as a whole
  • Abbreviated data by state
  • Taken from the Current Population Survey
  • Various formats with the full text in pdf
  • Series reports begin with 1973; brief historical tables date back to 1940
 
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