After a major overhaul, the Education Department’s online database now includes potential wages, graduation rates, and student loan debt of colleges across the country at program level, in an effort to combat false advertising and help students and families make informed choices about higher education.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced Wednesday that College Scorecard, an online database operated by the Department of Education since 2015, has gone through an upgrade to include key metrics on the economic outcomes of students after leaving specific colleges, including program-level debt and earnings, graduation rates, and apprenticeship opportunities. She says the redesigned Scorecard will ensure students make “apples-to-apples comparisons” between all of the programs they might be considering without regard to the type of school.
