College Scorecard

Introduction to the data

The college scorecard data consists of data from thousands of institutions across the country. This data provides information on the performance of those institutions and the outcomes of the students. This information is intended to help aid in the enrollment decisions of students.

Summary of the data

## # A tibble: 3 × 2
##   CONTROL            FAMINC
##   <chr>               <dbl>
## 1 Private for-profit 26894.
## 2 Private non-profit 56712.
## 3 Public             39365.

In this table I summarized the mean family income, and grouped by category of institution. From this output, Private for-profit has the lowest average family income, Public has the second highest average family income, and Private non-profit has the highest average family income.

What category of institution do first generation students attend?

My original hypothesis was that first generation college students would heavily be grouped in the Public Institution category. I believed because of the difference in price, public universities would have more first generation college students. Surprisingly to me, it seems that Private For Profit institutions have greater amounts of first generation college students.