College Scorecard

System for tracking Employment outcomes for College Education graduates. A form of College Ranking.

Systems tracking college graduates for employment/income:

• http://collegemeasures.org/esm/
• http://Collegerealitycheck.com which uses self-reported income data from http://payscale.com
• http://collegecost.ed.gov/scorecard/
  • update: now College Scorecard https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/ - 2015-09-13-CollegeScorecardEmploymentData
    • downloading the data https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
  • 2015 executed plan much softer than....
  • 2013: The heart of the proposals is a controversial plan to rate colleges based on measures of access, affordability, and student outcomes, and to allocate aid based on those ratings. Under the plan, students attending higher-rated institutions could obtain larger Pell Grants and more-affordable loans.

Also useful to see actual cost (net college tuition) for different family-income levels (quintiles).