College Scorecard
Investment ID: 018-000000156
Overview
Program Title
College Scorecard
Agency
Description
The College Scorecard highlights key indicators about the cost and value of institutions across the country to help students choose a school that is well-suited to meet their needs, priced affordably, and is consistent with educational and career goals.
Type of Program
Non-major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Associated Websites
collegescorecard.ed.gov
Investment Detail
The College Scorecard serves as the Department's primary consumer tool for presenting key institutional metrics relevant to college choice decisions. College Scorecard enables Americans to make informed choices where approximately $150b in federal student aid is awarded each year. Over 3.8 million unique users have visited the site since it launched September 2015. Over 5000 private sector developers have registered to access data via the API (e.g. Google, College Abacus, Schoold) to dynamically use College Scorecard data without hosting the data on their own. College Scorecard produces and disseminates this consumer information without any additional data collection burden, leveraging NCES's existing IPEDS collections and the federal government's own administrative data from FSA and IRS.