App Profile: College Comps

The impetus for this application arose from a desire to disentangle the rich yet vast array of U.S. college data collected and dispersed for public use by the Department of Education in their annual dictionary release into an easily digestible set of current trends and individual college pages. In doing so, College Comps clearly displays the latest reliable data on emerging fields of study and median returns on education, as well as ranking top U.S. colleges by acceptance rate, earnings per tuition, standardized scoring threshold, and more metrics. Using the search feature, college applicants and transfer students can easily compare data across U.S. universities, using this information to assist in their search process.