{
  "alt": "Two small line charts, one for public and one for private nonprofit four-year colleges, plotting median net price against five family-income bands. In the dollar view each line rises from the lowest band to the highest. In the share view each line falls steeply from the lowest band to the second band and then more slowly, and the private line is above the public line at every band.",
  "caption": "In both panels the dollar price climbs from the lowest band to the highest, while the share of assumed income drops most between the lowest band and the next (second view). Each point is the median across colleges, with a 95% interval from a bootstrap over states; the share divides the median by the midpoint of the band, {fact:mid_low} in the lowest band and {fact:mid_high} in the highest, which is an assumption.",
  "data": [
    {
      "band": 1,
      "hi": 10430,
      "lo": 8426,
      "measure": "Median net price (dollars per year)",
      "n": 693,
      "sector": "Public four-year colleges",
      "value": 9347
    },
    {
      "band": 1,
      "hi": 69.5,
      "lo": 56.2,
      "measure": "Net price as a share of assumed income (percent)",
      "n": 693,
      "sector": "Public four-year colleges",
      "value": 62.3
    },
    {
      "band": 2,
      "hi": 11263,
      "lo": 9449,
      "measure": "Median net price (dollars per year)",
      "n": 685,
      "sector": "Public four-year colleges",
      "value": 10114
    },
    {
      "band": 2,
      "hi": 28.9,
      "lo": 24.2,
      "measure": "Net price as a share of assumed income (percent)",
      "n": 685,
      "sector": "Public four-year colleges",
      "value": 25.9
    },
    {
      "band": 3,
      "hi": 14074,
      "lo": 12130,
      "measure": "Median net price (dollars per year)",
      "n": 687,
      "sector": "Public four-year colleges",
      "value": 12857
    },
    {
      "band": 3,
      "hi": 22.9,
      "lo": 19.7,
      "measure": "Net price as a share of assumed income (percent)",
      "n": 687,
      "sector": "Public four-year colleges",
      "value": 20.9
    },
    {
      "band": 4,
      "hi": 18000,
      "lo": 16056,
      "measure": "Median net price (dollars per year)",
      "n": 670,
      "sector": "Public four-year colleges",
      "value": 16974
    },
    {
      "band": 4,
      "hi": 19.5,
      "lo": 17.4,
      "measure": "Net price as a share of assumed income (percent)",
      "n": 670,
      "sector": "Public four-year colleges",
      "value": 18.4
    },
    {
      "band": 5,
      "hi": 19987,
      "lo": 17910,
      "measure": "Median net price (dollars per year)",
      "n": 647,
      "sector": "Public four-year colleges",
      "value": 18780
    },
    {
      "band": 5,
      "hi": 13.3,
      "lo": 11.9,
      "measure": "Net price as a share of assumed income (percent)",
      "n": 647,
      "sector": "Public four-year colleges",
      "value": 12.5
    },
    {
      "band": 1,
      "hi": 18307,
      "lo": 16937,
      "measure": "Median net price (dollars per year)",
      "n": 1120,
      "sector": "Private nonprofit four-year colleges",
      "value": 17596
    },
    {
      "band": 1,
      "hi": 122,
      "lo": 112.9,
      "measure": "Net price as a share of assumed income (percent)",
      "n": 1120,
      "sector": "Private nonprofit four-year colleges",
      "value": 117.3
    },
    {
      "band": 2,
      "hi": 18742,
      "lo": 17413,
      "measure": "Median net price (dollars per year)",
      "n": 1092,
      "sector": "Private nonprofit four-year colleges",
      "value": 18166
    },
    {
      "band": 2,
      "hi": 48.1,
      "lo": 44.6,
      "measure": "Net price as a share of assumed income (percent)",
      "n": 1092,
      "sector": "Private nonprofit four-year colleges",
      "value": 46.6
    },
    {
      "band": 3,
      "hi": 21427,
      "lo": 19926,
      "measure": "Median net price (dollars per year)",
      "n": 1082,
      "sector": "Private nonprofit four-year colleges",
      "value": 20684
    },
    {
      "band": 3,
      "hi": 34.8,
      "lo": 32.4,
      "measure": "Net price as a share of assumed income (percent)",
      "n": 1082,
      "sector": "Private nonprofit four-year colleges",
      "value": 33.6
    },
    {
      "band": 4,
      "hi": 25256,
      "lo": 23554,
      "measure": "Median net price (dollars per year)",
      "n": 1044,
      "sector": "Private nonprofit four-year colleges",
      "value": 24314
    },
    {
      "band": 4,
      "hi": 27.3,
      "lo": 25.5,
      "measure": "Net price as a share of assumed income (percent)",
      "n": 1044,
      "sector": "Private nonprofit four-year colleges",
      "value": 26.3
    },
    {
      "band": 5,
      "hi": 30525,
      "lo": 26953,
      "measure": "Median net price (dollars per year)",
      "n": 976,
      "sector": "Private nonprofit four-year colleges",
      "value": 28710
    },
    {
      "band": 5,
      "hi": 20.3,
      "lo": 18,
      "measure": "Net price as a share of assumed income (percent)",
      "n": 976,
      "sector": "Private nonprofit four-year colleges",
      "value": 19.1
    }
  ],
  "id": "net_price_by_income",
  "notes": [
    "Net price is the cost of attendance, which includes living expenses, minus grants and scholarships, averaged over a college's full-time, first-time students who received federal aid in the band. At public colleges it covers in-state students only. A family bears the living expenses whether or not the student enrolls, so the share of income is an order of magnitude and not a measured burden on any family.",
    "The five bands are the Scorecard's, up to {fact:edge_low} of family income and over {fact:edge_high}. The Scorecard does not report the income of the families in a band, so the share assumes an income at the midpoint of each band, and the highest band has no upper limit, so its share moves in proportion to the assumed value.",
    "The medians cover {fact:n_netp_pub} public and {fact:n_netp_priv} private nonprofit four-year colleges with a published net price in at least one band; a few report a net price below zero, which is kept as reported."
  ],
  "source": "College Scorecard, most recent cohorts, May 2025 release (net price by family income, academic year 2021-2022, nominal dollars); unweighted, each college counted once",
  "spec": {
    "facet": "sector",
    "facetColumns": 2,
    "hi": "hi",
    "lo": "lo",
    "n": "n",
    "series": "measure",
    "x": "band",
    "xDomain": [
      1,
      5
    ],
    "xLabel": "Family-income band (dollars of family income)",
    "xTicks": [
      {
        "label": "$0-30k",
        "value": 1
      },
      {
        "label": "$30-48k",
        "value": 2
      },
      {
        "label": "$48-75k",
        "value": 3
      },
      {
        "label": "$75-110k",
        "value": 4
      },
      {
        "label": "$110k+",
        "value": 5
      }
    ],
    "y": "value",
    "yDomain": [
      0,
      32000
    ],
    "yFormat": {
      "digits": 0,
      "prefix": "$",
      "thousands": true
    },
    "yLabel": "Median net price (dollars per year)"
  },
  "subtitle": "Median across colleges of the average net price after grants for full-time, first-time students who received federal aid, by family-income band, public and private nonprofit four-year colleges, academic year 2021 to 2022",
  "title": "The median net price rises with family income, but at public four-year colleges it falls from {fact:pub_t1_burden} of an assumed income in the lowest band to {fact:pub_t5_burden} in the highest",
  "type": "line",
  "views": [
    {
      "filter": {
        "measure": "Median net price (dollars per year)"
      },
      "id": "dollars",
      "label": "Dollars per year"
    },
    {
      "caption": "The first step carries {fact:pub_step} of the fall at public colleges and {fact:priv_step} at private nonprofit colleges; after the second band the share changes slowly. The share is the median net price divided by the midpoint of each band.",
      "filter": {
        "measure": "Net price as a share of assumed income (percent)"
      },
      "id": "share",
      "label": "Share of assumed income",
      "spec": {
        "yDomain": [
          0,
          130
        ],
        "yFormat": {
          "digits": 0,
          "suffix": "%"
        },
        "yLabel": "Median net price as a share of assumed family income (percent)"
      },
      "title": "As a share of an assumed income, the median net price falls from {fact:pub_t1_burden} to {fact:pub_t5_burden} at public four-year colleges and from {fact:priv_t1_burden} to {fact:priv_t5_burden} at private nonprofit colleges"
    }
  ],
  "width": "wide"
}