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Suggested form: “[Figure], from U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard data as presented by MajorPays (majorpays.com/[page]), accessed [date].”
Name the original source
- Graduate earnings and debt, graduation rates, cost: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard and NCES IPEDS. College Scorecard is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
- Careers, skills, work context: O*NET 31.0 Database (2026) by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.
- Pay and job growth: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics; Employment Projections).
- Places (counties, cities, ZIP codes, metro areas): U.S. Census Bureau (American Community Survey and other programs), with HUD, IRS Statistics of Income, BLS and BEA data where noted on the page.
Each page lists its own sources, and the Data sources page gives every dataset and its license.
Please keep these in mind
- Figures describe groups of graduates or workers, not individuals, and some are survey estimates or come from earlier years.
- MajorPays has selected, reorganized and in some cases calculated new figures from the source data. No agency has approved, endorsed or tested these modifications, and MajorPays is not affiliated with any agency or school.
- MajorPays does not rank schools; lists are alphabetical and readers may sort them. A ranking you produce by sorting is your own.
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