About our data
Where the numbers on CollegeScout come from, and what we don't yet know.
College Scorecard
Admit rate and tuition figures come from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard, a federal dataset built from schools' own reporting. Every Scorecard-sourced number on this site is labeled with its source and award year directly under the figure.
University-reported data
Fields Scorecard doesn't publish — GPA and test score ranges, in-state/out-of-state admit rate splits, programs, career outcomes, and campus details — come from a mix of each school's own Common Data Set, admissions pages, and other public sources. Some of these have been individually verified against a specific, dated source; most have not been yet. We're working through them school by school, and figures without a confirmed source are approximate rather than guaranteed exact.
More detail on our verification process is coming to this page. Back to the Directory