SampColleges2yr dataset

Sample of College Scorecard - Two Year

Information for a sample of 50 US post-secondary schools that primarily grant associate's degrees, from the Department of Education's College Scorecard data

Format

A data frame with 50 observations on the following 31 variables.

• Name: Name of the school
• State: State where school is located
• ID: ID number for school
• Main: Main campus? (1=yes, 0=branch campus)
• Accred: Accreditation agency
• MainDegree: Predominant undergrad degree (0=not classified, 1=certificate, 2=associate, 3=bachelors,4=only graduate)
• HighDegree: Highest degree (0=no degrees, 1=certificate, 2=associate, 3=bachelors, 4= graduate)
• Control: Control of school (Private, Profit, Public)
• Region: Region of country (Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, Territory, West)
• Locale: Locale (City, Rural, Suburb, Town)
• Enrollment: Undergraduate enrollment
• White: Percent of undergraduates who report being white
• Black: Percent of undergraduates who report being black
• Hispanic: Percent of undergraduates who report being Hispanic
• Asian: Percent of undergraduates who report being Asian
• Other: Percent of undergraduates who don't report one of the above
• PartTime: Percent of undergraduates who are part-time students
• NetPrice: Average net price (cost minus aid)
• Cost: Average total cost for tuition, room, board, etc.
• TuitionIn: In-state tuition and fees
• TuitonOut: Out-of-state tuition and fees
• TuitionFTE: Net Tuition revenue per FTE student
• InstructFTE: Instructional spending per FTE student
• FacSalary: Average monthly salary for full-time faculty
• FullTimeFac: Percent of faculty that are full-time
• Pell: Percent of students receiving Pell grants
• CompRate: Completion rate (percent who finish program within 150% of normal time)
• Debt: Average debt for students who complete program
• Female: Percent of female students
• FirstGen: Percent of first-generation students
• MedIncome: Median family income (in $1,000)

Details

Details The US Department of Education maintains a database through its College Scorecard project of demographic information from all active postsecondary educational institutions that participate in Title IV. This dataset contains information from a sample of the two-year colleges selected from all two-year colleges in CollegeScores2yr.

Source

Data downloaded from the US Department of Education's College Scorecard at https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/ (November 2019)