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A multi-dimensional look at diversity in American colleges and universities
I bought another camera, so I had hoped to spend the weekend out and about doing some photography, but this weekend is one of those rare ones in the Pacific Northwest where the temperature is cracking...
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Nobody knows how many colleges there are
If you ask the average person how many colleges there are in the US, the answer you get will depend on who that person is: If they work at the Wall Stree Journal or New York Times, they might say, "No...
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So you think you're going back to the SAT and ACT?
Now that almost every university in the nation has gone test-optional for the 2021 cycle out of necessity, a nagging question remains: How many will go back to requiring tests as soon as it's possible?...
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Yes, your yield rate is still falling, v 2019
You know the drill. For the past few years, I've updated this with new data as soon as IPEDS releases it. Well, the Fall, 2019 admissions data is out, and I could have written this even before I...
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State Flagship Tuitions over time
This should be a pretty easy one. Every year, the College Board puts out data on college tuition and financial aid. It's a great service, but of course it's all spreadsheets. Not fun to work with....
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How many colleges are there, anyway (2019)?
How many colleges are there, anyway? If you're talking about the US, no one really knows. There are a lot of reasons for this, some of which are definitional: Do you include cosmetology colleges?...
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Baccalaureate origins of doctoral recipients
Here's a little data for you: 61 years of it, to be precise. The National Science Foundation publishes its data on US doctoral recipients sliced a variety of ways, including some non-restricted public...
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Fresh WICHE data: Projections of High School Graduates
The good folks at WICHE just released some fresh data on high school graduates, past, present, and future, and as always, it's interesting. Their website has some excellent summaries, and some...
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Doctoral recipients in the US, by ethnicity over time
A while ago I published this visualization, showing the baccalaureate institutions of doctoral degree recipients over about 60 years. It's a post I do every few years, and it always seems to be...
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Let's talk about library books
This post had two inspirations: First, I was scrolling around the IPEDS data center one night, looking for something to visualize that I hadn't before that I thought would be interesting. I scrolled...
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Private College and University Tuition Discount Rates, 2010, 2014, and 2018
There is almost nothing that enrollment managers and CFOs and trustees talk about at private universities these days more than discount rates. Because, as I wrote recently, colleges are...
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Women and College Degrees, 2019
I saw an opinion piece in Insider Higher Ed this week, and this statistic jumped out at me: Four-year institutions are graduating a third more women than men. It's not that the statistic was...
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All Degrees Awarded by US Colleges and Universities, 2019
The question often asked by high school and independent counselors is something like, "What college offers degrees in <insert major name>. While this can't help you know what colleges offer a...
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The Highly Rejective Colleges
If you're not following Akil Bello on Twitter, you should be. His timeline is filled with great insights about standardized testing, and he takes great effort to point out racism (both subtle and...
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Public and Private Schools and AP Exams, 2020
A few weeks ago, I saw this Twitter thread by James Murphy, and it reminded me of something. If you don't want to read the thread, it has to do with the seemingly enormous advantage private school...
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Another look at enrollment and ethnicity, 2019
Let's take a look at undergraduate enrollment by ethnicity. You'd be surprised how hard it is to keep this to seven views, as the topic is complex and nuanced. But I did.The topic should be...
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A Deep Look at Net Price
First things first: Let's define what IPEDS calls Net Price: You can read all the details here, or just realize it's the cost that students and parents are expected to pay after all grant aid is...
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A look at the states: Ethnicity and Age
As is often the case, this started with some work I was doing anyway regarding a question someone asked me about different states and public universities and how the composition of the student body...
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Public universities and the public mission
My last post looked at the US population by ethnicity, and how it varied by age group in the states. I thought it might be interesting for anyone, but especially for those who do university planning...
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Education and the 2020 Election Results
In 2017, I stumbled upon some 2016 election data and started to look at the relationship between educational attainment in the US and election results. The title was only half serious, but some people...
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