Build a side-by-side comparison of any U.S. college, thirty data points at a time.

Type a school name into the sidebar, add your ZIP code, and College Compare pulls that school's full profile into a new row. Repeat for every school on your list. What you end up with is the comparison table you were going to build by hand from a dozen browser tabs — except it has the numbers those tabs make you hunt for.

WHAT IT PULLS IN

Cost and debt
• Annual cost
• Share of students taking federal loans
• Median total debt after graduation
• Typical monthly loan payment

Admissions
• Acceptance rate
• ACT range, low and high
• SAT Reading range, low and high
• SAT Math range, low and high

Outcomes
• Graduation rate
• Retention rate
• Median earnings after attending
• Share of students earning more than a high-school graduate

The school itself
• Enrollment and program size
• Public or private
• City and locale
• Student-to-faculty ratio
• Website
• Driving miles and drive time from your home ZIP code

Student body
• Socio-economic diversity
• Race and ethnicity breakdown across seven categories

THE DASHBOARD

A dashboard tab ranks every school in your list against the others on each measure, so you can see where a school actually stands rather than reading raw numbers across a wide table.

PERFECT FOR
✓ Students and families building a shortlist without twenty tabs open
✓ School counselors comparing options with a student in one view
✓ Independent education consultants producing a client-ready comparison
✓ Anyone weighing what a degree costs against what it pays — the earnings and debt figures sit in the same row as the tuition
✓ Parents checking whether a test score is in range before the application fee is spent

WHY A SPREADSHEET

Because the comparison is yours once it lands. Sort it, add your own columns, weight what matters to your family, share it, and keep it as the list changes — none of which a college-search website lets you do.

HOW TO USE

1. Type a school name into the sidebar, and optionally your ZIP code.
2. Choose the school. It is added as a new row.
3. Repeat for each school you want to compare.
4. Open the dashboard tab to see the rankings.

PRICING

Free for three schools for seven days, then $15 per year.

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Google Sheets™ is a trademark of Google LLC. College Compare is an independent add-on and is not endorsed by or affiliated with Google LLC. College data is sourced from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard.