SampColleges2yr: Sample of College Scorecard - Two Year
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Information for a sample of 50 US post-secondary schools that primarily grant associate's degrees, from the Department of Education's College Scorecard

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 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.

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

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