scorecard

The College Scorecard

The college scorecard is a data set collected and provided by the US department of education. Each row of this data is a a post-secondary educational institution and each column describes that institution.

Summary statistics

Here is a collection of summary statistics, that we have found interesting about this data.

## # A tibble: 1 × 3
##   `Most expensive tuition` `most students` `highest acceptence rate`
##                      <dbl>           <dbl>                     <dbl>
## 1                    93704           77269                         1

A school a total of students equal to a medium sized city. I imagine that it is not the same school charging 93k a year. If they are, that university is making a crap ton of money.

A hypothesis

Are schools with higher military population also starting at a higher age?

Yes, it seems that the higher the population of veterans, the higher the age of entry into the institution. This makes sense because veterans are often using their Post 9/11 GI bill after serving their 5-8 years (or more) in the military, so their age would be greater than the average student enrolling at 18.