Who publishes it
The College Almanac is published by Auriginal LLC, a small company in Virginia. Questions, ideas and problems go to contact@auriginal.app, and a person reads them.
How it stays independent
- Colleges can't pay to appear. Every one of the 4,035 degree-granting colleges gets the same profile, built the same way, and none can buy placement or a better position.
- No rankings and no admissions predictions. You can sort by a figure, but we never call a college “best” or estimate anyone's chances.
- No advertising. We don't sell or share what families save, and searching never needs an account.
Where the facts come from
Every figure comes from a public federal source, mainly the U.S. Department of Education's IPEDS surveys and College Scorecard, with each source and its year shown beside the number. Where federal data stops, such as deadlines, essays or campus policies, we point you to the college's own website rather than filling the gap ourselves. See every source and its coverage, or how the Almanac is built.
How it's kept up to date
We check the federal sources every month and refresh the site when a new release comes out. Federal data runs a year or two behind by design, so each figure is labeled with the year it describes.
Found a mistake?
Report a correction with a link to an official source. We check each one against that source before changing anything, and a correction never silently overwrites a federal figure.