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CollegeDive A MooreMetrics tool

College recommendations

Find colleges that fit.

6,418 colleges, universities, and schools across all 50 states, D.C., and the U.S. territories, each profiled on ten dimensions. Describe what you want, or start from schools you already like, and keep the search close to home with the distance filter.

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Schools
6,418
States
50
Dimensions
10

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Two ways to find your school

Set the dimensions that matter to you and switch off the rest. Zero is the average school; move toward either end to ask for more or less of a trait.

How selective and widely known the school is.

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From −4, Open access, to +4, Highly selective. Zero is the average school.

How large the student body is.

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From −4, Small, to +4, Large. Zero is the average school.

Sports, Greek life, dorms, and a classic campus feel.

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From −4, Nontraditional, to +4, Classic campus. Zero is the average school.

How central parties and nightlife are to student life.

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From −4, Quiet, to +4, Big party scene. Zero is the average school.

Artists, activists, free spirits, and countercultural students.

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From −4, Conventional, to +4, Bohemian. Zero is the average school.

How ambitious and competitive the students are.

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From −4, Laid-back, to +4, Intense. Zero is the average school.

From rural campuses to the heart of a big city.

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From −4, Rural, to +4, Big city. Zero is the average school.

How many students go on to graduate or professional school.

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From −4, Rarely, to +4, Often. Zero is the average school.

How much the school is geared toward jobs and earnings after graduation.

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From −4, Less career-focused, to +4, Career-focused. Zero is the average school.

How many students come from low-income or otherwise disadvantaged backgrounds.

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From −4, Few, to +4, Many. Zero is the average school.

How it works

Every school measured the same way

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    Each school is profiled

    Every one of the 6,418 colleges, universities, and schools was rated on a long list of questions about who goes there, what campus life is like, and where graduates end up.

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    10 dimensions

    A psychometric model condenses those ratings into 10 dimensions, each scaled from −4 to +4 around the average school. The sliders on this page set targets on those same scales.

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    Two ways to match, anywhere or nearby

    Describe what you want finds the schools whose profile sits closest to your settings. Start from schools you like finds the schools whose full rating profile correlates most strongly with the ones you named. Add a place and a radius to keep the results within reach; we look the place up on OpenStreetMap.

The data behind CollegeDive is available through the MooreMetrics API.