US College Outcomes (Dept. of Education College Scorecard)
Cost and outcomes for every U.S. college in one clean table - the fields prospective students and workforce researchers actually want, lifted out of a ~3,000-column government CSV. The Department of Education's College Scorecard is authoritative but unusable raw (cryptic codes, 'PrivacySuppressed' sentinels); we select ~18 fields and ship one fat row per institution: identity and location, ownership, admission rate, median SAT/ACT, undergrad enrollment, cost of attendance and net price, median graduate earnings 10 years out, completion and retention rates, median debt, Pell share and the 3-year default rate. Keyed by the federal UNITID. Public domain.
- Source
- U.S. Dept. of Ed.
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- Every U.S. Title-IV college - one fat row: cost, earnings, completion, admissions, debt
- Median graduate earnings 10yr out, net price, cost of attendance, median debt
- Admission rate, median SAT/ACT, undergrad enrollment, retention & completion, Pell %
- Ownership (public / private nonprofit / for-profit) mapped to readable labels
- ~18 fields selected from a ~3,000-column raw CSV; institution-level, no student PII
- Public domain + CC-BY (U.S. Dept. of Education) - free commercial reuse & resale
- Source: U.S. Department of Education - College Scorecard
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unitid | int | Federal IPEDS UNITID (primary key) | 100.0% | 6,273 |
| institution | str | Institution name | 100.0% | 6,164 |
| city | str | City | 100.0% | 2,342 |
| state | str | U.S. state abbreviation | 100.0% | 59 |
| ownership | str | Public / Private nonprofit / Private for-profit | 100.0% | 3 |
| admission_rate | float | Undergraduate admission rate (0-1) | 30.5% | 1,520 |
| sat_avg | float | Average SAT score of admitted students | 16.5% | 433 |
| act_median | float | Median ACT composite score | 15.5% | 22 |
| undergrad_enrollment | float | Undergraduate enrollment (headcount) | 87.3% | 2,707 |
| cost_of_attendance | float | Average annual cost of attendance (USD) | 51.0% | 3,075 |
| net_price_public | float | Average net price, public institutions (USD) | 28.6% | 1,720 |
| net_price_private | float | Average net price, private institutions (USD) | 51.6% | 3,065 |
| median_earnings_10yr | float | Median earnings 10 years after entry (USD) | 81.7% | 3,778 |
| completion_rate_150pct | float | Completion rate within 150% of expected time (0-1) | 36.1% | 1,742 |
| retention_rate | float | First-year retention rate, full-time (0-1) | 32.8% | 1,365 |
| median_debt | float | Median debt of graduates (USD) | 76.2% | 1,621 |
| pct_pell | float | Share of undergraduates receiving Pell grants (0-1) | 86.8% | 3,646 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: U.S. Dept. of Ed. (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("us-college-outcomes_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
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