College Reality Check

About College Reality Check

College Reality Check is produced by The Chronicle of Higher Education with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The goal of the Web site is to share facts and figures that students, parents, and counselors should weigh in making decisions about college.

These factors, often overlooked, include colleges’ graduation rates and net price, how much it will take each month to pay off student loans, and how much a graduate might potentially earn.

The tool is designed in a visually stimulating way to make absorbing the numbers easy and allow for quick comparisons among colleges.

Our hope is that you will use the site at various points on the journey to college, to help you build that initial list or narrow your final choices. As you find your own stories in the statistics, we urge you to share them with others through the tools we have provided to download, print, or post on Facebook or Twitter.

Recommended in ALA's November 2013 issue of Choice.