Colleges, community colleges and trade schools
Every school in the 50 states and DC that is currently approved for federal student aid, by state and city, with cost, net price, completion and the fields it teaches. From the U.S. Department of Education; a complete list, not a ranking.
College Scorecard
- Checked
- 21 Oct 2026
Currently operating Title IV schools (CURROPER = 1). Cost = average annual cost of attendance (COSTT4_A, or COSTT4_P for program-year schools), net price = NPT4_PUB / NPT4_PRIV, both 2024-25; completion = C150_4 (four-year schools, fall 2019 cohort) or C150_L4 (fall 2022 cohort), within 150% of normal time.
View sourceThree kinds of school
Federal data sort every school by the length of its longest program. Each kind can be public, private nonprofit or private for-profit.
| Kind | What it awards | Public | Private nonprofit | Private for-profit | All |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universities and 4-year colleges | Bachelor's degrees and up; many also give associate degrees and certificates | 892 | 1,638 | 364 | 2,894 |
| Community and 2-year colleges | Associate degrees and certificates (longest program 2 to under 4 years) | 881 | 132 | 499 | 1,512 |
| Trade and career schools (under 2 years) | Certificates only (every program under 2 years): trades, health care, beauty and other careers | 237 | 58 | 1,346 | 1,641 |
Public 2,010 · private nonprofit 1,828 · private for-profit 2,209 · 1,106 schools awarded a doctorate in 2023-24. 148 more schools in U.S. territories (Puerto Rico, Guam and others) are in the program lists but have no state page yet.
Colleges by state
Each state page lists every school with type, control, cost, net price and completion, links its city pages and shows where to earn a doctorate.
- Alabama80 schools · 6 cities
- Alaska10 schools · 1 city
- Arizona126 schools · 10 cities
- Arkansas81 schools · 8 cities
- California653 schools · 64 cities
- Colorado84 schools · 8 cities
- Connecticut56 schools · 8 cities
- Delaware18 schools · 2 cities
- District of Columbia23 schools · 1 city
- Florida373 schools · 36 cities
- Georgia157 schools · 15 cities
- Hawaii20 schools · 1 city
- Idaho37 schools · 5 cities
- Illinois231 schools · 14 cities
- Indiana147 schools · 17 cities
- Iowa74 schools · 6 cities
- Kansas79 schools · 6 cities
- Kentucky87 schools · 6 cities
- Louisiana111 schools · 10 cities
- Maine35 schools · 2 cities
- Maryland75 schools · 4 cities
- Massachusetts137 schools · 9 cities
- Michigan168 schools · 18 cities
- Minnesota110 schools · 11 cities
- Mississippi56 schools · 2 cities
- Missouri137 schools · 7 cities
- Montana28 schools · 2 cities
- Nebraska40 schools · 2 cities
- Nevada38 schools · 3 cities
- New Hampshire30 schools · 3 cities
- New Jersey156 schools · 13 cities
- New Mexico45 schools · 3 cities
- New York417 schools · 25 cities
- North Carolina167 schools · 10 cities
- North Dakota26 schools · 2 cities
- Ohio275 schools · 21 cities
- Oklahoma102 schools · 7 cities
- Oregon68 schools · 4 cities
- Pennsylvania315 schools · 20 cities
- Rhode Island23 schools · 2 cities
- South Carolina87 schools · 10 cities
- South Dakota24 schools · 2 cities
- Tennessee144 schools · 10 cities
- Texas407 schools · 33 cities
- Utah62 schools · 7 cities
- Vermont14 schools
- Virginia153 schools · 15 cities
- Washington100 schools · 8 cities
- West Virginia65 schools · 5 cities
- Wisconsin85 schools · 8 cities
- Wyoming11 schools · 1 city
Where to study for a career
Every career page on this site with a matching program has a Colleges button. It opens a list of every school that awarded that program in 2023-24, matched by the federal CIP–SOC crosswalk.
Electricians, nurses' aides, teachers, designers, managers and more: filter by state, award level and type of school.
Registered Apprenticeship
A Registered Apprenticeship Program is a model of apprenticeship validated by the Department of Labor or a State Apprenticeship Agency. Linked from apprenticeship.gov/apprenticeship-occupations. Term lengths are hours of on-the-job learning; time-based programs list one figure, hybrid programs a range.USDOL
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Test prep and tutoring
This site does not list private coaching or tutoring centers in the U.S.: there is no official registry of them to check a listing against. Every exam page links the exam owner's own free practice instead (SAT and PSAT in Bluebook, ACT practice tests, GED preview tests, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT and licensing exam samples).
Every exam by stage, each with dates, fees, scoring and free official practice.
About these numbers
- Which schools
- Every school in the College Scorecard file of 15 Oct 2026 that is currently operating and approved for federal student aid (Title IV). Schools that do not take federal aid are not in the file.
College Scorecard
College Scorecard data, Most Recent Institution-Level file (release of 15 Oct 2026)U.S. Department of Education- Checked
- 21 Oct 2026
Currently operating Title IV schools (CURROPER = 1). Cost = average annual cost of attendance (COSTT4_A, or COSTT4_P for program-year schools), net price = NPT4_PUB / NPT4_PRIV, both 2024-25; completion = C150_4 (four-year schools, fall 2019 cohort) or C150_L4 (fall 2022 cohort), within 150% of normal time.
View source - Type and control
- The federal "level of institution" (4-year, 2-year, less than 2-year) and control (public, private nonprofit, private for-profit) as the school reports them.
- Cost a year
- Average annual cost of attendance, including tuition and fees, books and supplies, and living expenses, for full-time, first-time undergraduates who receive federal aid, 2024-25. Program-year schools (most trade schools) report it per program year.
College Scorecard
College Scorecard data dictionary and cohort mapU.S. Department of Education- Checked
- 21 Oct 2026
- Net price
- That cost minus the average grant and scholarship aid, 2024-25. What a family pays depends on income: every school's own net price calculator gives a personal estimate.
- Completion
- Share of full-time, first-time students who completed a degree or certificate at the school within 150% of normal time: at four-year schools, students who started in fall 2019 (or the 2019-20 year); at other schools, fall 2022 (or 2022-23). Rounded to a whole percent.
- Fields and doctorates
- From the awards each school reported to NCES IPEDS for 2023-24 (July 2023 – June 2024, first majors), grouped into CIP 2020 families; the level shown is the highest award made in that family that year. A school that made no award in a field that year is not listed for it.
NCES IPEDS
IPEDS Completions, 2023-24 (complete data file C2024_A)National Center for Education Statistics- Checked
- 21 Oct 2026
- Not shown
- Rankings, admission chances and program accreditation. Check accreditation with the accreditor and in the Department of Education's DAPIP database before you enroll.
Where these facts come from
Official and primary sources only, each checked on the date shown. Rules on testing, aid, licensing and immigration change, so confirm a detail with its source before you rely on it.
- College Scorecard data, Most Recent Institution-Level file (release of 15 Oct 2026) · U.S. Department of Education checked 2026-10-21
- IPEDS Completions, 2023-24 (complete data file C2024_A) · National Center for Education Statistics checked 2026-10-21
- College Scorecard data dictionary and cohort map · U.S. Department of Education checked 2026-10-21
- CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 Crosswalk · National Center for Education Statistics checked 2026-10-21
- Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) 2020, code file · National Center for Education Statistics checked 2026-10-21
- Approved occupations for Registered Apprenticeship (spreadsheet: RAPIDS code, type, minimum term) · U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Apprenticeship (Apprenticeship.gov) checked 2026-10-21
- What is a Registered Apprenticeship Program? · U.S. Department of Labor (Apprenticeship.gov) checked 2026-10-21
- Apprenticeship Job Finder · U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Apprenticeship (Apprenticeship.gov) checked 2026-10-21
- College Navigator · National Center for Education Statistics checked 2026-10-07