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Selected Sites for Comparative Data

Common Data Set Initiative (CDS)

The CDS is a long-standing project to provide a core set of primary annual data reported in a standardized form from colleges and universities to college guidebooks and other public entities. Information covered in the CDS includes: detailed data on various aspects of enrollment, extensive basic data on both admissions and financial aid, retention and graduation, faculty, class size, and graduates and earned majors. See Vassar's CDS data on this website. 

College InSight

See Vassar's College InSight Information.
From the website: “Puts selected higher education data at your fingertips. Browse and compare information on colleges and universities concerning affordability, diversity, and student success, enrollments, and debt.”  (Caution: data may not be fully up to date with those currently available.) Developed and provided by TICAS, The Institute for College Access and Success.

College Results Online

See Vassar's College Results Online Information.
College Results Online takes public data from U.S. Department of Education databases and provides it in a simple interface making it easy to select and compare several colleges on a number of key statistics. College Results Online was developed by the Education Trust to help students and parents examine college graduation rates and related variables. It allows users to:

  • Examine overall graduation rates and see how those rates have changed over time
  • Learn about universities' records graduating diverse groups of students
  • Compare the graduation rates of similar institutions—colleges and universities that share many characteristics and serve similar student populations

CollegeNavigator

See Vassar's College Navigator Information.
Developed by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to provide an extensive core set of statistics compiled from several Federally-mandated public surveys. Designed primarily for prospective students and parents, all users may search for colleges that meet various criteria, and they can easily compare results for up to four colleges side by side. Provides IPEDS-based data on costs of attendance, financial aid, enrollment, admissions, retention and graduation rates, programs and majors, varsity athletics, accreditation, campus security, and federal loans. Can also be used as a generalized data source for individual U.S. colleges and universities.