About College Plain

College Plain is a small independent site that turns the Department of Education's college data into pages a student or parent can read in a few minutes. It is not affiliated with any college, lender or test-prep company, and no college pays to appear.

Corrections

If a number looks wrong, write to hello@collegeplain.com with the page address. We check it against the source file. If the federal file itself is wrong, we say so on the page and point to the college's own figure; if we made the mistake, we fix it and note the date of the change.

How the pages are made

The figures, charts and comparison sentences are generated from the source files by code, and the code is checked against the files before each update. See the methodology for sources, years and definitions.