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The information families need to compare colleges on cost already exists, and it's free. The problem is that it's buried. The US Dept of Education College Scorecard holds the real numbers, but you read it one college at a time, income band by income band, tab by tab, and the comparison you actually want, your whole shortlist next to each other, never assembles itself. College Cost Report exists to do that assembling.
You give it the colleges you're weighing and your income band. It pulls the same set of federal figures for each one, net price for your income, sticker cost, graduate earnings, student debt, graduation and admission rates, and lays them out in a single ranked PDF with the best value flagged. What was an afternoon of squinting between browser tabs becomes one page you can read at the kitchen table.
College Cost Report is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any college or the US Department of Education. No college pays to appear or to rank higher, because there is no ranking to buy: your colleges are ordered by their own net price for your income, straight from the data. We don't publish invented statistics, star ratings, or testimonials. Every figure in the report traces back to the College Scorecard, and you can check any of it yourself.
One thing we're always straight about. The net price we report is an income-band average for the most recent year the government publishes, not a personal quote. It is the right number to compare colleges with and to decide which are worth an application, but your own aid offer depends on your full financial picture. Confirm the exact figure with each college's net price calculator and your FAFSA and aid letters. This is not financial advice.
