College Move helps over 5.6 million community college students create a list of colleges for transfer by displaying a tailored college list based on college quality (instructional spending per student, faculty-to-student ratio, percentage of full-time faculty, and percentage of tenured faculty) and peer diversity (percentage of students of color, women, and men). Specifically, College Move will show lists of colleges divided into 3 categories: reach, target, and safety.
Visit our project here:
https://jlkwong.github.io/CollegeMove/
Head over to this link, and explore schools using the filters available. We recommend that you choose 4 reach schools, 2 target schools, and 2 safety schools:
https://collegemove.sardija.repl.co/
By default, the lists in each category will show the colleges that ranked best overall in our analyses first. If you feel that a particular college is not a good fit for you, you can scroll down to check out the next best college in that category. You can also personalize these lists using filters.
All of these colleges will cover 100% of the cost of attendance for low-income students, which is cheaper than the cost of community college. You won't even have to take a part-time job or student loans to cover your education.
Choosing 2 safety schools and 2 target schools already guarantees that you'll transfer to a college. The 4 reach schools give you a decent shot at transferring to a college with:
- Personalized instruction with lower student-to-faculty ratios (class sizes averaging 10 or less)
- More classes offered, career services, internship opportunities, research opportunities, larger libraries, and higher-quality lab equipment with more spending per student ($50,000+ per year)
- High-quality instruction with more full-time, tenured professors who are experts in their fields (80%-100% full-time, ~33% tenured)
- Networking opportunities with high-achieving and influential peers
No. We tailor college lists based on generic criteria that you can change in the filters. We do not ask for any personal information or otherwise collect any data to filter the College Move list.
The IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System).
2 out of 3 high-ability, low-income community college students who could have transferred to a selective college instead end up ‘under-matched’ to a less selective college due to a lack of guidance on where to apply to transfer. This lost potential not only impacts these college students personally, but society as a whole. The Harvard economist Raj Chetty calculated that 75% of innovation in America is lost due to the wasted potential of women, people of color, and low-income people.