Daniel Niersbach is the student body President at Indiana University. He wrote a letter to Indiana Senators Joe Donnelly and Todd Young asking them to support the College Transparency Act. In the letter, Daniel writes: “Postsecondary data reform would open doors for so...
A Student Level Data Network could be a powerful tool for putting information about outcomes at schools into the hands of prospective students. Check out our two new factsheets: Student Level Data Network – What it is & isn’t – For most students,...
For many prospective students, choosing a college is an enormous challenge. After being bombarded with top-ten lists, catalogues, online databases, advertisements, and the opinions of family and friends, they still may not have enough of the important information they need...
Numerous studies have demonstrated how labor market outcomes information can influence student perspectives and decisions on where to got to college and what to study. A new study from the Urban Institute suggests such information fails to influence prospective high...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 15, 2017 Contact: Sarah Schultz, sarah.schultz@younginvincibles.org, 202.734.6510 [Washington DC]- Today, a bipartisan group of US Senators introduced the College Transparency Act of 2017, a bill that would modernize our higher education data infrastructure by providing much...
Join over 1 million students. Add your voice and tell lawmakers to make college more transparent. Download the agenda Association of Big Ten Students North Carolina Association of Student Governments University of Houston Student Government Association Minnesota State College Student...
There are many factors to consider when picking where to go to college and how to pay for it, but it’s hard to escape the most central: how is it going to impact my financial future? While students value harder...
We know a lot about college: how much schools charge for tuition and fees, how many students they enroll, and what types of programs or majors they offer. We also know a lot about jobs: how many people are unemployed,...
Students today have a vast amount of options for where to obtain an education, which allows us a lot of flexibility in finding schools of different sizes, cost, and locations. It’s a great advantage for some, but can create quite...
A certain image of the struggling Millennial shows up often in the media – underemployed, underpaid, and swimming in debt. I am that Millennial. I am buried in more than $113,000 of student loan debt, and can barely stay afloat...