College characteristics and post-graduate employment

Welcome to our final project for Math 243, Fall 2019.

Alice Chang, Ben Thomas, and Olek Wojcik

Project description

Question:

What are the major determinants of the employment rate of graduates from a given college, 6 months after graduation?

Model type

This is a regression model with the graduate employment rate as the dependent variable. Inferential.

Data

We used data from the College Scorecard (provided by the US Department of Education).