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Best Colleges in Idaho
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This ranking scores 10 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.
Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.
The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.
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Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.
Graduation Rates
Longer bars = higher graduation rate.
Top 3
College of Southern Idaho
Twin Falls, ID
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University of Idaho
Moscow, ID
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The College of Idaho
Caldwell, ID
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College of Southern Idaho
Twin Falls, ID · 3,810 students · Public
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID · 7,747 students · Public
The College of Idaho
Caldwell, ID · 1,041 students · Private nonprofit
Boise State University
Boise, ID · 17,674 students · Public
Lewis-Clark State College
Lewiston, ID · 2,385 students · Public
Idaho State University
Pocatello, ID · 7,583 students · Public
Northwest Nazarene University
Nampa, ID · 1,024 students · Private nonprofit
College of Western Idaho
Nampa, ID · 6,459 students · Public
College of Eastern Idaho
Idaho Falls, ID · 1,478 students · Public
New Saint Andrews College
Moscow, ID · 305 students · Private nonprofit
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David Krug
Co-Founder, CollegeRanker
David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.
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