Data.gov — Education topic area: This area has numerous data sets that can be downloaded and used for multiple topics
https://www.data.gov/education/
And education datasets:
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?groups=education2168
National Center for Education Statistics: You can create QuickStat tables using various variables, basically zeroing in on a particular area (for example, the gender breakdown of college grads who did or did not do study abroad programs)
https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2016006
College Salary Report 2017: College salaries for postgrads of colleges across the country — you can narrow it to Michigan
https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report
ProPublica data sets (education): Look for the ones marked FREE
https://www.propublica.org/datastore/datasets/education
Individual school sites — Admissions and Financial Aid offices
Michigan Department of Education data
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/
List of colleges and universities:
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdcr/michigan_public_institutions_revised_369627_7.pdf
U.S. Education Department –data
https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/landing.jhtml?src=pn
College scoreboard: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
Michigan Association of State Universities: https://www.masu.org/
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