Is your college financially healthy and viable?
For College Leaders and Stakeholders
For College Leaders and Stakeholders
For College Leaders and Stakeholders
- You face intense pressures on tuition prices from your competitors negatively impacting your college financial health
- You are also paying high-priced consultants to compile and analyze the financial health and viabilty of your competitors.
- The College Financial Health Advanced Compass is now available here.
- The Strategic College Compass is a custom-made dashboard app prepared for just your college.
- Click here to schedule a 30-minute private demo of both the Advanced Compass and the College Strategic Compass.
- If you're interested in getting a better handle on which majors you are strong and weak in, the 2025 College Majors Completion App let's users do custom market share analysis for public and private colleges for 63 common majors.
- If you are worried about both public AND private college competitors, the 2025 College Viability App for Executive Analysis provides more than 40 IPEDS report comparison for more than 2,500 colleges. Available late February 2025.
For College Faculty & Staff
For College Leaders and Stakeholders
For College Leaders and Stakeholders
- You sense that your college has financial health challenges.
- You want to access data to help your peers understand and compare your college with others.
- You don't know where to start.
- If your college may close, it is best to find out on your own.
- You struggle to know which of your majors is competitively strong and which are not.
- If you are eager to learn what market shares your college has for common undergraduate and graduate majors, the 2025 College Majors Completion App is for you.
There are apps available to help you understand the financial and academic comparisons that can be made for your college and its competitors.
Sign up here to stay informed on the financial health of colleges.
For Students & Families
For College Leaders and Stakeholders
For Students & Families
- College closures have occurred and many more are also likely to close sooner rather than later.
- If your college closes, it could cost you $50,000 or more in extra college expenses and lost income.
- Use the Parent's College Viability App to easily compare the financial health and viabilty of colleges you are considering. Click here to get weekly updates. I will also send you specific information on how to evaluate the financial health and viability of colleges.
Kiplinger readers:
- Click here to purchase the 2025 College Viabilty App - Student and Family version. Compare the financial health of colleges before making that final decision.
- Click here to purchase the 2025 College Majors Completion App Student & Family version. Learn which colleges are strong in majors and which are weak.
The College Viability Manifesto
- College is good. Go if you can.
- Graduation is better.
- Some colleges will not survive. Most will.
- Only consider those in good financial health
- Your FAFSA tell colleges about your finances. The College Viability App shows you theirs.
- Enrollment trends matter. Graduation rates matter even more.
- Popularity indicators are important.
- Closing colleges will cost you A LOT of money.
- Support higher education in the United States.
- Choose the strong - not the weak.
Get "Informed Consent" for your College Committment
The College Viability Transparency Tool allows students and families to:
1. Evaluate college as a decision, not a default.
2. Create a college list using evidence, not assumptions.
3. Improve the questions asked on campus visits.
4. Make a committment to college with informed consent.