Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist
Paying for a doctoral degree requires a major commitment, and we want students to feel confident in their choice. Our team at Research.com ranked the top schools using a clear methodology....
Choosing a college is a significant decision, and you deserve to have clear and trustworthy information to guide you. We build our rankings using data from the most reliable sources available, including the IPEDS database, Peterson's database, College Scorecard, and the National Center for Education Statistics. This ensures that our...
A college transfer acceptance rate is the percentage of students who apply to transfer into a college and are accepted. It reflects how open a school is to welcoming students who began their studies elsewhere—whether they started at a community college, enrolled in another four-year university, or even pursued affordable...
A for-profit college is a higher education institution operated by private owners or corporations with the primary goal of generating revenue for investors. Unlike nonprofit universities, which reinvest surplus funds into academic programs, student services, and campus development, for-profit schools direct earnings to shareholders....
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist
For students and parents, the various ways that the terms school, college, and university are used can be very confusing. The trends in college and university mergers are not helping. The lack of understanding of these terms may influence international students’ choice of an institution when applying to study in...
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest," Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, once said. And this is true for those people who deem education as an investment. But the rising costs of college leave many students in great debt, and many wonder if...
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