The Uncommon Data Set
Choosing a college should not mean a dozen tabs, a paid search product, and a PDF you can't compare. This is the most comprehensive free college data we know of: each school's Common Data Set, plus IPEDS and College Scorecard, in one public place.
What you can do
- Search a school and open the latest report it published.
- If a school hasn't published its own report, you still get the federal numbers.
- Download the original file the school posted.
- Compare admissions, enrollment, test scores, cost, and aid across schools.
- Build a match list on your device. We don't store a student profile.
- If you're in IR or research: use the same data through a public API.
How this is different
Commercial college-search tools can be useful. They often want an account, hide where a number came from, or build a student profile along the way. We don't. The school's own report sits next to the federal numbers, the original file is one click away, and you don't have to pay or log in.
The reports, in one line each
- Common Data Set — the yearly report the college writes.
- College Scorecard — federal outcomes and net price.
- IPEDS — the federal statistical baseline.
Open source
Code, schema, pipeline, and archived files are public (MIT). GitHub. API. Developers who want extractors and known issues start there, not on this page.
Credits
Built on Supabase. Federal baseline facts come from official NCES/IPEDS releases.
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