Why should you care about college_scorecard?
Aside from being our fierce leader’s favorite data set, college_scorecard provides us with an inside look into public, private non-profit, and private for-profit universities across the United States. Through this data set, we are able to better understand strengths and weaknesses of over 7,000 American colleges by assessing each institution through the various lenses of location, undergrad student population, demographic makeup of student population, average admission rate, average ACT and SAT scores, average cost for attendance, average faculty salary, average age of entry, student’s relationship status (it’s always complicated, am I right?), and over 20 other variables.
Summary Statistics
## # A tibble: 3 × 3
## CONTROL Average_Cost_For_Attendance Average_Faculty_Salary
## <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 Private for-profit 26329. 4854.
## 2 Private non-profit 38760. 6814.
## 3 Public 15695. 7389.The table above shows the Average Cost for Attendance and Average Faculty Salary for universities that are private for-profit, private non-profit, and public. On average, tuition cost is the highest at private non-profit institutions; although, faculty are not paid the highest at these universities. Public schools, on average, had the lowest tuition costs but paid their faculty the most.
Data Visualization
Are there more public universities in rural areas or suburbs? Are there more private non-profit schools in suburbs or towns? Are there more private for-profit schools in cities or suburbs? Create a graph to showcase these relationships.
From the chart above, we see that overall there are more colleges
located in cities than anywhere else.