Where you go to college changes whether you finish — and what it costs is almost never the sticker price. Three views of the federal IPEDS data, built around the questions I spent a decade helping students answer: which colleges graduate people, whether a harder-to-get-into college actually graduates more of them, and what families really pay.
Line up every 4-year college by the share of students who finish, then see where students actually enroll.
Compare admit rates against 6-year graduation rates at public and private colleges, with filters by state, size, and HBCU status.
Look up any college and compare what families actually pay across five income brackets.
Data: IPEDS graduation-rate figures for students who started college in 2021-2023, U.S. Department of Education, with those three years' worth of students pooled together. Figures for a racial or ethnic group are hidden where fewer than 30 students in that group are in the data. Selectivity tiers are calculated by this site from admission rate and test-score midpoints.