National plate · net price and earnings
What do schools cost, and what do graduates earn?
Schools of every sector sit across a wide range of both. Each dot below is one school: how far right it sits is the average yearly price families pay after grants, and how high is the median pay of former students ten years after they entered. Neither axis is a score, and the colors name a sector, not a place in a ranking.
Net price and earnings, school by school
Find a school by name to mark it on the plot, or turn sectors off to see the others alone.
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About the data
The scatter has one dot per school, about six thousand in all, so the full table is not repeated here. Every school's net price and earnings are listed on its state page and on its own school page. Schools missing either figure are not drawn.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard. Net price after grants and median earnings 10 years after entry.
How to read this plate
- Net price is the average yearly cost after grants and scholarships, for students who received federal aid. Earnings are the median for students who received federal aid, measured ten years after they entered. Neither describes every student.
- A school with net price or earnings not reported is not plotted. The count appears under the chart. Not plotted does not mean zero.
- Every school stays on the plot, including a few with unusually high net prices, so the price axis runs further right than most dots. Nothing is clipped.
- Dots overlap where many schools share similar figures. Use the search to find a single school, then open its page for the full statement.