Top Univ Spread Sheet?

College Search & Selection
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Hey everyone!

So I’ve noticed that looking into colleges is an arduous and time-consuming task. Does anyone have a spreadsheet (excel or word) with information on the top universities? Maybe include location, fees, admissions deadlines, US News Rank, SAT Midrange, GPA, EA/ED/REA, offer Business?, offer Engineering?, etc.

Schools I have in mind are Penn, Michigan, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Stanford, WashU, Duke, UF, Carnegie Mellon, CalTech, GeorgiaTech, Yale, Princeton, UCalBerkeley, etc.

I plan on studying business, engineering, or both. Still unsure. This spreadsheet may help me select a narrow list of univs that offer either one or both the aforementioned majors.

Thanks in advance.

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The best grid you’ll find like that is inside a US News Ranking magazine. They have all of that in there. You can find those magazines on your basic rack like either a bookstore or a supermarket or a place like Target/Walmart.

Plus to figure out what schools offer, you could research them yourself and possibly use the College Confidential’s SuperMatch tool on the left bar.

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bump

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“Online Aid for Making ‘The Decision,’ From a College Freshman” / The New York Times. Though I think the featured website is designed for locating schools that match specified criteria, which does not directly correspond with what you seem interested in.

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Actually, the website addresses directly what you’ve asked for with your last paragraph.

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for some reason it doesn’t work after the “factors” section, nor does it allow me to register for an account… @merc81

as i was reading the article, i thought it was just what i was looking for

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There are two ways to access the IPEDS data set which contains a lot of what you are looking for…

  1. The simple way is to look up individual schools you are interested in on the College Navigator. This will let you access most of the data you are interested (notable exception: details about ED/EA, deadlines, etc…).
    http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/
    This is a perfect way to browse a specific schools, and there is a feature that will let you compare a small set of schools side by side.

  2. If you want to look at a large number of schools and compare them according to various statistics, you can go to the IPEDS data center and select exactly what variables you want, create a set of schools according to some custom factors, and download this in a file that can be imported into Excel or a database
    https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/
    This requires quite a bit more work, but if you really want to compare a large set of schools across a bunch of variables, this is the way to go.

Most of the existing web sites that offer “college match” or “estimates for admission” use (or misuse, as the case may be) this data because it is fairly comprehensive and free to use.

Good luck

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That’s too bad! Unfortunately, though I’ve read the article of course, I have not had a need to navigate the site as of yet.

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Thank you! @NickFlynn
And don’t worry @merc81