What a degree actually costs, and what it actually pays.

Ask an open question about a school, a trade, or a career. The answer is assembled from federal datasets — College Scorecard, IPEDS, BLS wages, NCES — and every figure names its source. Where the data holds nothing, the answer says so rather than filling the gap with something that sounds right.

Cost against earnings

Net price, median earnings and the debt-to-income ratio between them — for one school or two side by side.

Degrees against trades

Wage data and institutional outcomes in the same answer, so a four-year degree and an apprenticeship can be compared on the same terms.

Sourced, or labelled

Every number is tied to the dataset it came from. Estimates are marked as estimates, and your own figures are attributed back to you.