private.csv

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) collects and publishes data on institutions of higher education in their College Scorecard. The data provided in the College Scorecard facilitate transparency and provide information for interested stakeholders (e.g., parents, students, educators).

The data in private.csv are the $N=159$ private instituions from the original 230 randomly sampled institutions drawn from the 2020–21 data (see here).

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The attributes included in the data are:

• name: Name of institution of higher education
• state: Two-letter U.S. state abbreviation indicating the location of the institution
• region: Region of the U.S. in which the institution is located
• inst_type: Type of institution (Two-year undergraduate, Four-year undergraduate, Exclusively graduate/professional)
• control: Institutional control (Private, private)
• for_profit: Is the institution a for-profit institution? (No, Yes)
• adm_rate: Admission rate indicating proportion of students who applied that are admitted to the institution
• undergrads: Number of enrolled undergraduate certificate/degree-seeking students at the institution
• mdn_debt: Median amount of debt after graduation for undergraduate borrowers who complete their degree
• mdn_earn: Median earnings of students working and not enrolled 10 years after entry

Preview

# Load library
library(tidyverse)

# Import data
private_colleges = read_csv(file = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zief0002/epsy-5261/main/data/private.csv")

# View data
private_colleges

# A tibble: 159 × 10
   name                               state region      inst_type              
   <chr>                              <chr> <chr>       <chr>                  
 1 Abilene Christian University       TX    Southwest   Four-year undergraduate
 2 AdventHealth University            FL    Southeast   Four-year undergraduate
 3 Andrews University                 MI    Great Lakes Four-year undergraduate
 4 Arizona Christian University       AZ    Southwest   Four-year undergraduate
 5 Art Center College of Design       CA    Far West    Four-year undergraduate
 6 Augsburg University                MN    Plains      Four-year undergraduate
 7 Ave Maria University               FL    Southeast   Four-year undergraduate
 8 Baptist Health College Little Rock AR    Southeast   Two-year undergraduate 
 9 Bard College                       NY    Mid East    Four-year undergraduate
10 Bates College                      ME    New England Four-year undergraduate
   control for_profit adm_rate undergrads mdn_debt mdn_earn
   <chr>   <chr>         <dbl>      <dbl>    <dbl>    <dbl>
 1 Private No            0.634       3480    24000    49294
 2 Private No            0.909       1129    25034    58788
 3 Private No            0.488       1381    26076    51909
 4 Private No            0.715        883    21500    37531
 5 Private No            0.761       1907    31218    66407
 6 Private No            0.731       2487    25000    53472
 7 Private No            0.918       1048    21500    45789
 8 Private No            0.5          661    10000    54924
 9 Private No            0.570       1932    25910    43441
10 Private No            0.141       1876    13978    64706
# ℹ 149 more rows

References

U.S. Department of Education. (2023). College Scorecard data.