An atlas of American higher education
Privilege in,privilege out.
A college’s headline numbers mostly measure who it admits — not what it does for them. PIPO separates the two, charting retention, graduation, and true cost against the privilege students bring in.
- 1,004
- institutions
- 2024
- entering cohort
- 5
- family-income bands
- 5
- tools
The tools
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Value-Added Index
VAISortable ranking of value-added retention and graduation performance.
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Value-Added Matrix
VAMScatter of value-added retention vs. graduation across all schools.
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Cost After Scholarship
CASNet cost of schools after need- and merit-based scholarships.
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Value-Added & Cost
VACValue-added performance vs. cost, broken out by income band.
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The Atlas Map
MAPEvery institution on a US map, colored and sized by any indicator.
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Built on public data — IPEDS, the College Scorecard, and US News categories. Value-added figures compare each school’s actual retention and graduation against what its incoming class predicts, so the credit goes to the school rather than to the privilege it admitted.