Colleges, programs, and careers by state

For every U.S. state you can browse three things: its colleges and universities, the academic programs they offer, and the occupations those programs lead to. They are backed by federal data on enrollment, tuition and cost, post-graduation earnings, and state-level wages and job counts. Figures come from public sources including IPEDS, the College Scorecard, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

All figures come from public federal datasets: IPEDS for enrollment, institutional characteristics, and degrees awarded, the College Scorecard for cost and graduate earnings, Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for state wages and job counts plus Employment Projections for job outlook, and the U.S. Department of Education Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment (FVT/GE) program performance data for debt-to-earnings and earnings-premium measures. Clema aggregates them so you can browse by state without downloading raw files.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes occupational wage and employment estimates for the 50 states and the District of Columbia only. Territories and freely-associated states such as Puerto Rico and Guam still have institution and program pages, but no occupation pages, because the underlying federal wage estimates do not exist for them.

Yes. Browsing colleges, programs, and occupations by state on Clema is free and needs no account, so students, families, and researchers can explore any state.

Pick any state to see its institutions, then open a college to view enrollment, cost, and earnings. Because every state uses the same federal data definitions, the figures are comparable across state lines. The same holds for occupations: each one shows what it pays in that state against the national median, plus a job-concentration figure showing whether the state employs more of that job than average.

Yes. Clema is an AI assistant for institutional research teams that answers data requests in plain language, pulling from IPEDS, the College Scorecard, and other federal sources, so you get an answer in minutes instead of days.