College Outcomes Comparator

Store Positioning

Store title: College Outcomes Comparator

Short description: Compare colleges using structured outcomes metrics such as completion, earnings, debt, retention, cost, admission, and program-level indicators from supplied datasets or official-data exports.

SEO title: College Outcomes Comparator — official public data extraction and monitoring

SEO description: Compare colleges using structured outcomes metrics such as completion, earnings, debt, retention, cost, admission, and program-level indicators from supplied datasets or official-data exports. Use it to normalize official public data into clean Apify datasets with source-specific fields and report artifacts.

Categories: DEVELOPER_TOOLS

Keywords: college, outcomes, comparator, structured data, data qa, dataset qa, official/public-data actor

Pay-Per-Event Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Event prices include Apify platform usage; users are not expected to pay a separate platform-usage pass-through charge for the configured pricing model.

• Tier: D1 — Official/public-data actor
• Primary event: institution-fetched at $0.00908 base
• Default max charge: $15.00
• Store discounts: FREE/BRONZE base, SILVER discounted, GOLD deepest approved discount

Event set:

• actor-start: base $0.02000, GOLD $0.01760. College Outcomes Comparator: charged when actor start is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• institution-fetched: base $0.00908, GOLD $0.00799. College Outcomes Comparator: charged when institution fetched is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• event-detected: base $0.01300, GOLD $0.01140. College Outcomes Comparator: charged when event detected is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
• report-generated: base $0.05000, GOLD $0.04400. College Outcomes Comparator: charged when report generated is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.

The actor accepts actor-start before work, accepts the primary event before each dataset row, and accepts the configured report event before writing report files. If maxChargeUsd or the live PPE limit blocks a charge, the corresponding row or report is not written.

Public Task Concepts

• Compare previous and current College Outcomes snapshots
• Monitor College Outcomes changes for a capped watchlist
• Build a College Outcomes change digest from supplied evidence
• Prioritize high-impact College Outcomes changes
• Export College Outcomes change rows for client review Compare supplied college outcome metrics with ranks, percentiles, labels, and caveats.

Inputs

• institutionNames
• unitIds
• opeIds
• outcomesCsvUrl
• outcomesJson
• metrics
• cohortYear
• peerGroupMode
• includeDebtMetrics
• includeEarningsMetrics
• missingValuePolicy
• maxInstitutions

The exact default compares Harvard, MIT, and Stanford using bounded public College Scorecard API observations captured at 2026-07-12T06:00:00Z.

Outputs

• institutionName
• unitId
• opeId
• metricName
• metricLabel
• metricValue
• metricUnit
• sourceYear
• rankInComparisonSet
• percentileInComparisonSet
• peerGroupSize
• missingValueReason
• caveat
• source

Run locally with npm test and npm run build.