Obama’s new College Scorecard: 68 schools with low costs and high incomes

Someone heading to college could see the proportion of students at a school who earned more than they would have had they entered the job market right after high school.

College Scorecard calculates its average annual cost to attend KU based on in-state students receiving federal financial aid – “after aid from the school, state or federal government“.

See how some of Arizona’s 49 listed institutions of higher education fare on the website. “But you shouldn’t silence them by saying, ‘You can’t come because I’m too sensitive to hear what you have to say.’ That’s not the way we learn either”, Obama said. My first thought was, ‘Go Department of Education, ‘ ” says Sara Goldrick-Rab, who teaches education policy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Our rankings cover a smaller group of schools, about 700 four-year colleges and universities.

The Scorecard distinction aligns with the college’s own data, which shows that 96 percent of the Class of 2014 is employed or in graduate school one year after graduation.

The release of the scorecard follows a series of recent national rankings that use varying methodologies to underline UC’s standing as one of the world’s preeminent research universities.

The Obama Administration has recognized the need for college students and their parents to be fully educated on tuition costs and available financial aid – as well as the quality of education – among the nation’s public and private institutions of higher learning.

Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education, said in a statement that while having the data is good, “developing a system of this size and scope is a complicated and nuanced endeavor and the department has done so without any external review”.

Since the website’s launch on Saturday morning, more than 500,000 people have visited, President Obama said in a town hall event in Iowa on Monday. “Access to better data will help colleges assess how well they help all types of students succeed during and after college”, stated the White House. The dataset also provides institution-specific insight on the proportion of former students earning more than $25,000, and the median earnings of students 10 years after they enroll. In California, for example, Los Angeles County College of Nursing and Allied Health has median earnings 10 years after graduation of $85,800.

In August 2013, Obama spoke at Henninger High School in Syracuse and discussed a plan to rate colleges based on value. During the question-and-answer session, a student asked the president about an unnamed Republican presidential contender’s proposal to defund “politically biased colleges”.