Time – Kaitlin Mulhere
“To help families make smarter choices about college, the federal government has unveiled a revamped college search tool based in part on a mountain of newly published college-related data. Since the website’s launch on Saturday morning, more than 500,000 people have visited, President Obama said in a town hall event in Iowa on Monday. The site, called the College Scorecard, is designed to be simple to navigate. You can search by a college’s name, state, zip code, or size. You can also search by degree or program type, institution type, and religious affiliation, and look up details such as typical monthly loan payments and graduates’ earnings for thousands of colleges, including community colleges and for-profit schools.”(more)