The Problem
College education plays a key role in everyone's life, unless you're Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and a handful of other outliers. If we consider all the students attending college, those who start earning money right after graduation end up paying off their college loan after 10 years from graduation, on average. This should be addressed, so let's dig into it and find out the best colleges and degrees a student should enrol in to make the most of every penny spent on their college education.
Solution
Data is collected from the Department of Education USA and loaded into a locally hosted SQLite database for faster access. After initial research of the data dictionary (1,800 variables), the project moved through EDA, feature elimination, missing value imputation, machine learning, and results.
Environment
Tools used: Tableau for visualisation, Jupyter Notebook, Python, and machine learning libraries from scikit‑learn.