A dated list of what has been added or corrected. Each item is live on the site. For where every number comes from, see Data sources; for how figures are shown or withheld, see How it works.
October 17, 2026
- Trends. New: how old full-time and part-time students are (NCES).
October 14, 2026
- School pages. New: what happened to students eight years after they entered, by Pell Grant and first-generation status (College Scorecard); median earnings of dependent and independent students; science and engineering research space (National Science Foundation); federal TRIO grants listed for the college (Department of Education); a link to the college’s mission or about page.
- Compare. Schools tab: 8-year completion for Pell and first-generation students, earnings of dependent and independent students and research space. Careers tab: employment-based green card (PERM) applications certified in fiscal year 2025 and the median lowest wage offered, by occupation (Department of Labor). See the guide to these rows.
- Colleges map. New optional filter for historically Black, tribal and land-grant colleges.
- State pages. New: fall enrollment at colleges in the state (NCES) and median wage by occupation group (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
- Trends. New: where private nonprofit colleges get and spend their money; where public colleges spend their money; enrollment at historically Black colleges and universities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, at women’s colleges and at mostly online colleges, how colleges select students, the spread of college prices, who works at colleges and who finishes at the college where they start, and how old undergraduates are; pay, student debt and years since the bachelor’s degree of new research doctorates by field (National Science Foundation); graduate students in science, engineering and health.
October 13, 2026
- Compare. Ridgeline (joy) plots of pay spread on every tab, with a guide to reading them. New rows: median earnings by occupation group and by industry for counties, cities and ZIP areas (Census), and median wage by occupation group for states (BLS).
- Colleges map. Every college on one map, with filters for type, level, setting, size, state and name; each school page links to its place on the map and lists nearby colleges.
- Accuracy. Rankings-page debt figures now match the rest of the site; in-district tuition added for community colleges; Connecticut planning regions named correctly; notes added where BLS means are below medians and where the Department withholds figures. Independent reviews of the new work led to wording and matching fixes.
- Guides. New guides on the pay-spread charts, the Colleges map and the occupation-pay rows.
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