Data Visualizations

August 26, 2026

Nonresidents make up 78 percent of the entering class at the University of Vermont and 3 percent at the University at Buffalo. Both are state flagships. This measures how...

August 21, 2026

In August 2026, two universities raised their income lines within a week of each other. Rice announced free tuition for families earning up to $200,000, beginning with students entering...

August 13, 2026

How does a coach at Williams or Swarthmore or Emory find out your child exists? At most of these colleges, nothing happens until the student makes contact. What varies,...

August 12, 2026

Consider the rower first. Nine of the twenty-six elite Division III colleges in this analysis field rowing at all. At those nine, rowing accounts for about 20 roster places...

August 12, 2026

Division III describes Bowdoin College, where 34 percent of full-time undergraduates play a varsity sport. It also describes New York University, where 1.8 percent do. Both admit fewer than...

June 30, 2026

Biology has always been the gateway science. It is the major that leads to medical school, to graduate research, to careers in biotechnology and public health, and increasingly to...

June 26, 2026

Aerospace engineering is one of the most specialized and demanding undergraduate disciplines in the American university system. The field produces the engineers who design commercial aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, satellites,...

June 26, 2026

Nursing is one of the largest undergraduate majors in the United States, and the largest single field within the health professions, the category that trails only business among all...

June 18, 2026

Foreign language study is one of the most globally oriented dimensions of an undergraduate education. Whether a student is pursuing Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, or the...

June 18, 2026

A new analysis of more than 300 selective colleges ranks the top undergraduate feeder institutions to elite MBA programs, by raw volume, by enrollment size, and among schools that...

June 12, 2026

Among occupations with above-average AI exposure, 264 are growing while 108 are declining. The correlation between AI exposure and employment growth is near zero. For students and career changers,...

June 12, 2026

An analysis of 300-plus selective colleges identifies the top feeder institutions to elite medical programs three ways: by raw numbers, by enrollment size, and among schools that outperform their...

June 4, 2026

At forty schools, more than half the incoming class is filled before regular decisions go out, and the trend is accelerating. At Davidson College this year, 69 percent of...

June 4, 2026

Students from 28 states are represented at elite schools at less than half their expected share. For applicants from those states, geography may be the most underused advantage in...

May 28, 2026

At some elite schools, transfer applicants face better odds than freshmen. At others the door is essentially closed. Six years of data show which is which. Plenty of students...

May 28, 2026

Most families researching the University of California system fixate on one number, the campus acceptance rate. UCLA admits 9 percent of applicants. UC Merced admits 94 percent. That spread...

May 22, 2026

An analysis of 1,202 four-year institutions reveals that prestige commands a real ROI premium. Dozens of overlooked colleges deliver even greater returns for the investment. Every spring, as acceptance...

May 14, 2026

It’s one of the few admissions variables you can actually control. Most families don’t know which schools are watching. Consider the awkward position a Tulane admissions reader sits in...

May 14, 2026

Picture a high school senior in San Jose hitting submit on a UC application in late November. They’re one of hundreds of thousands doing the same thing that week,...

May 8, 2026

Why graduate programs went digital faster than undergraduate ones, and what that means for the working adults who dominate them. If undergraduate education has been wading into online learning...