Top Univ Spread Sheet?

NickFlynn
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:47:45 +0000

There are two ways to access the IPEDS data set which contains a lot of what you are looking for…

1. The simple way is to look up individual schools you are interested in on the College Navigator. This will let you access most of the data you are interested (notable exception: details about ED/EA, deadlines, etc…).
http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/
This is a perfect way to browse a specific schools, and there is a feature that will let you compare a small set of schools side by side.

2. If you want to look at a large number of schools and compare them according to various statistics, you can go to the IPEDS data center and select exactly what variables you want, create a set of schools according to some custom factors, and download this in a file that can be imported into Excel or a database
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/
This requires quite a bit more work, but if you really want to compare a large set of schools across a bunch of variables, this is the way to go.

Most of the existing web sites that offer “college match” or “estimates for admission” use (or misuse, as the case may be) this data because it is fairly comprehensive and free to use.

Good luck