College Education

This dataset is accessed from https://www.kaggle.com/jessemostipak/college-tuition-diversity-and-pay and was downloaded on August 4, 2021. <br><br> The following excerpt is from Kaggle regarding the sources of this dataset: The data this week comes from many different sources but originally came from the US Department of Education. Tuition and fees by college/university for 2018-2019, along with school type, degree length, state, in-state vs out-of-state from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Diversity by college/university for 2014, along with school type, degree length, state, in-state vs out-of-state from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Example diversity graphics from Priceonomics. Average net cost by income bracket from TuitionTracker.org. Example price trend and graduation rates from TuitionTracker.org Salary potential data comes from payscale.com. This dataset included the following files: 1. diversity_school.csv 2. historical_tuition.csv 3. salary_potential.csv 4. tuition_cost.csv 5. tuition_income.csv After data cleaning, the data in <i>diversity_school.csv</i> and <i>tuition_cost.csv</i> were merged and the data in <i>salary_potential.csv</i> and <i>tuition_income.csv</i> were merged. The combined datasets were then split based on the US Census Regions into West, Midwest, Northeast and South (https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us_regdiv.pdf).