Who publishes this site
America EDU is published by the Institute of Developmental Anthropology. Editorial decisions, sourcing standards, and corrections are the responsibility of the Institute. We do not accept payment for placement, ranking, or inclusion, and institutions cannot pay to be listed, delisted, or ranked differently.
Corrections and factual disputes
If a figure on this site is wrong, we want to know. Every page names the sources behind its claims, which means any statement we publish can be checked against the original record. When you get in touch about a correction, quoting the page URL and the specific figure lets us verify it against the same source you did.
We treat corrections as a priority over new content. Federal education data is revised, school records change between collection years, and directory information can lag reality by a year or more. A reader who spots a discrepancy is often seeing something more current than the dataset we drew from.
Email: corrections@america.edu
Questions about our sources
We publish the provenance of our data deliberately, and we are happy to explain it further. Common questions we can answer:
- Which federal dataset a particular figure came from, and which collection year it covers
- Why a figure is shown as "not available" rather than zero, and what the underlying suppression code means
- Why two sources on the same page disagree, and why we have chosen to show the disagreement rather than resolve it
- Why a rating is withheld for a particular school or program
Our approach to sourcing is documented in full on the ratings methodology page and in the about section.
Email: editorial@america.edu
For schools, colleges and districts
If you represent an institution listed on this site and its information is out of date, contact us with the corrected details and the official source we can verify them against — a school district page, a state education department record, or an institutional fact book. We update from primary sources rather than from submitted copy, so pointing us at the record is more effective than sending replacement text.
We do not accept payment for placement, ranking, or inclusion. Institutions cannot pay to be listed, delisted, or ranked differently.
Email: institutions@america.edu
Reusing our material
Educators, journalists and researchers are welcome to cite this site. For substantial reuse of tables or compiled data, get in touch first so we can tell you the vintage of the underlying data and any caveats that apply to it — a figure republished without its collection year and suppression notes can be misleading in ways the original page avoided.
Email: editorial@america.edu
Privacy requests
For questions about data we collect from visitors, cookies, advertising, or requests under GDPR or CCPA, see our privacy policy, which sets out what is collected and how to opt out.
Email: privacy@america.edu
What to expect
We read everything sent to the addresses above. Corrections that include a page URL and a verifiable source are usually the fastest to action, because they can be checked immediately against the record. General questions about methodology may take longer, since the honest answer sometimes requires re-checking the underlying dataset rather than repeating what a page already says.
We are an editorial research resource, not an admissions service, a placement agency, or a representative of any institution. We cannot advise on individual applications, transmit applications to schools, or intervene in an admissions or financial aid decision. For those, contact the institution or the relevant state agency directly.
