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Does anyone know of a good diy college ranking system? One where you can pick that factors that actually matter to you. I'm always happy to see options other than U.S. News but I'd love to be able to tweak the algorithm myself.

I think these one size fits all rankings are all flawed by their inherent nature.

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I made a simple DIY ranking system using the same College Scorecard data last week. Here you go: http://bsudol.com/1PUPohk

You can select which variables are important and how much, and it generates a top/bottom 50 list.

This was inspired by this article from NPR (http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/09/21/441417608/the-new-...)

This is awesome! I'm happy the college score card data is being used for great project like this.

This is great. As a next step, perhaps make the sliders more mobile friendly?

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The economist article linked here references (and uses in their rankings) data from https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/, which is put out by the US Dept of Ed. Looks like there's some additional metrics in there that may be useful.

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