Sources
Every figure in your report comes from one place: the US Dept of Education College Scorecard. That matters for a simple reason. When a college tells you about cost and value, it is marketing to you. The Scorecard is the federal record of what families actually paid and what graduates actually earned. You get the real ledger, not the sales pitch.
The Scorecard is the Department of Education's public dataset covering colleges across the country. Colleges report the underlying figures to the federal government, and the Department compiles and publishes them. It is where net price by income band, cost of attendance, graduate earnings, student debt, and graduation and admission rates all come from in your report.
Why a single federal source is the point. A college's own website shows you the sticker and the shine. The Scorecard shows you what families in your income band paid after aid and what graduates earned years later. Because it is the same source measured the same way for every school, the comparison across your list is apples to apples. You can look up any figure in the report yourself on the Scorecard and check our work in a couple of minutes.
We don't invent numbers, adjust them, or add opinions. What we do is the fetching and the arranging: match each college you name to the right main campus, pull the same set of figures for every school, read net price for the income band you chose, and lay it all out ranked and compared in one PDF. The value is that your whole shortlist arrives side by side instead of you opening the Scorecard one college at a time and squinting between tabs.
