Home
Articles
Education
Explore data spanning the American K-12 system to higher ed. Track how education spending plays into school funding and teacher pay, if students are closing the achievement gap, and more.
Child safety
Crime Map
Crime rate
Guns
Illegal drugs
Jails and prisons
Police and Law Enforcement
Border security
Foreign affairs
Military
Veterans
Agriculture
Debt
Economic indicators
Exports and imports
Inflation
Jobs and unemployment
Standard of living
Taxes
Trade
Wealth and savings
Education spending
Higher education
K-12
Climate
Energy
Environmental protection
Natural resources
Wildfires
Consumer and employee safeguards
Disasters and emergency relief
Foreign Aid
Government employment
Government institutions
Government revenue and spending
Government-run business
Regulation
State and local government
COVID-19
Health insurance
Health outcomes
Healthcare
Aging population
Child care
Civil rights
Demographics
Foster care and adoption
Immigration
Politics
Poverty
Transportation and infrastructure
US Regions
Current selection: Education — higher-education
Less than one percent of loan debt was cancelled.
Between 2000 and 2019, the price the average college student paid for tuition, fees, and room and board increased 59%.
While the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics degrees earned by women increased in recent years, there’s still a gender gap.
For most schools, athletics constitute a small portion of revenue. But in the Power Five Conferences—ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC—football represents a larger portion of institution revenue.
Forty-two million people, or one in six American adults, currently carry a federal student loan. The nation’s overall student debt reached $1.6 trillion in June 2019. What’s behind this large number?
More and more Americans are going to college as tuition increases. But what’s the actual cost of higher education? Here’s an analysis of how colleges finances work and how tuition factors in.
SIGN UP FOR THE NEWSLETTER
Keep up with the latest data and most popular content.