Distance from home

Straight-line miles from the center of the ZIP code. Colleges without a reported location are hidden while this is set.

Acceptance rate

SAT middle 50%

Shows schools whose middle-50% range overlaps yours.

Test policy

Each college's newest published policy, so cycles differ between colleges. Optional includes colleges that require scores of some applicants.

Average cost per year

Estimated average paid by all first-years, including those without grants. Colleges without enough data are hidden while this is set.

20% or fewer of undergrads take a federal loan.

Cost by family income

Filtering by where need-based aid ends is off for now: that figure is an estimate, and it isn't shown until we've checked it against colleges' own calculators.

Aid for students without financial need, from the college's own report or the federal proxy.

Graduation

Pell Grant recipients graduate within 5 points of students with no need-based federal aid (or more often). Colleges with under 30 students in either group are hidden while this is set.

10-year direction

Over each college's last 10 years of federal data; cost after inflation. Colleges without enough history are hidden while a direction is set.

Type

Size

Student body

Mostly women or men: over 60% one or the other. Mostly full-time: 10% or fewer of undergrads study part-time.

Where first-years come from

At least 50% of first-years come from other states. Colleges that don't report it are hidden while this is set.

Financial aid (from colleges' own reports)

From each college's Common Data Set; colleges whose report we don't have yet are hidden while these are set.

Majors

Colleges awarding bachelor's degrees in the field, counting first majors. Colleges that don't report degrees by field are hidden while this is set.

Campus

Religious affiliation

Groups of the affiliations colleges report to the federal government. Each profile shows the exact one.

Has a named community of this tradition, from a national organization's own list of its campus chapters.

LGBTQ+ campus life

From national directories and, where checked, the college's own pages — never the federal gender-identity counts, which we never rank, filter, or compare.

Students per faculty

The national median is 13. Colleges that don't report it are hidden while this is set.

Full-time faculty

The national median is 67%. Colleges that don't report it are hidden while this is set.

Sports & programs

What they look at

Where applicants live

Only the 124 colleges that publish these figures in their Common Data Set can match.

Transfer students

Fraternity or sorority participation

Of undergrad men in fraternities, or undergrad women in sororities (never summed). Only colleges whose Common Data Set reports either percentage can match.

Historically Black, Latino, Asian, multicultural, and other Greek chapters

From national organizations' own chapter lists, not the Common Data Set — most of these organizations aren't in the fraternity/sorority percentage above. A college with none listed may still have one; no directory covers every organization yet.

After you're admitted

Only colleges whose Common Data Set answers this can match.

Housing & policies

"Live on campus" is the strict rule: every full-time first-year, no exceptions. Many more colleges expect it with exceptions.

Region

State