colleges: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
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colleges

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Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

Description

This dataset is from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), a system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by the National Center for Education Statistics. These surveys have been conducted since 1992 and primarily aims to calculate the contribution of postsecondary education to the gross national product.

Usage

colleges

Format

A tibble with 950 observations and 13 variables:

name: character variable for name of college
region: factor variable for the region corresponding to college's location ("Northeast", "South", "East", "Midwest")
state: character variable for the 2-letter abbreviation of state which college is located in
county: character variable for the county which a college is located in
zip: integer variable for the zip code of the college
public: logical variable for whether or not a school is public
tier: integer variable representing the level of prestige & selectivity a college holds (1-6)
hbcu: logical varibale representing whether or not the college is a historically black college/university
enrollment: integer variable for total undergraduate enrollment (full time + part time) in fall 2013
tuition: double variable for the average annual cost of attendance (Tuition + Fees) in 2013 in tens of thousands of dollars
grad_rate: double variable for the graduation rate in 2013
sat: integer variable for average SAT scores (scaled to 1600) in 2013, defined as the mean of the 25th and 75th percentile of math+verbal SAT scores.
selectivity: ordered factor variable for the overall selectiveness of the college according to Barrons. Has levels "Elite", "Highly Selective", "Moderately Selective", "Lowly Selective", "Non-selective"

Details

#' The data for the tibble comes from 2013, so the many of the variables could be very very different due to inflation or changes in the educational system. Data comes from IPEDS, but was downloaded from Opportunity Insights