scorecard

The College Scorecard

The college scorecard is a dataset collected and provided by the US department of education. Each row of this data is a post secondary educational institution and each column decsribes something about each institution.

Summary Statistics

Here is a collection of summary statistics I find interesting

## # A tibble: 1 × 3
##   `Most expensive tutition` `Most students` `Highest acceptance rate`
##                       <dbl>           <dbl>                     <dbl>
## 1                     93704           77269                         1

An institution has a total number of students equal to a medium sized city and I imagine that is not the same institution charging over $93k for tuition every year.

Visualization of a hypothesis

Do faculty at institutions with higher tuition get paid more?

At an initial glance there appears to be a positive relationship between cost for attendance and faculty salary. However, there is a noticeable group of points that do not meet that hypothesis. Although there appears to be a positive relationship, it is not strong enough of a relationship to determine that schools with higher cost of attendance pay there faculty higher salaries.