How unbiasEd collects, verifies and publishes college data.
If you find a number you can't trace back to a source, that's a bug. Tell us — corrections are published in public.
What we publish
unbiasEd publishes metrics we can trace to a named, dated public source. No vibes. No star ratings. Today that covers Engineering and MBA in India — 13 pages live, growing as our pipeline does.
Covered metrics: placement rate, median salary, highest package (where reported), NIRF rank, NAAC grade, total cost of study, historical trends, top recruiters (where filed).
Sources, ranked
| Source | Type | Confidence | What we use it for |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIRF | Ministry-filed ranking data | HIGH | Placement rate, median salary, rank, parameters |
| NAAC | Accreditation grade | HIGH | A / B / C grade with + / ++ |
| AISHE | Ministry survey | HIGH | Fees (aggregate), faculty counts |
| JoSAA / CSAB | Admissions | HIGH | Cutoffs (centrally-funded only) |
| College filings | Self-reported (brochure, site) | MED | Top recruiters, highest package |
| College aggregators | Third-party listing (Collegedunia, Shiksha, etc.) | MED | Cross-reference signal; flagged as unverified |
Confidence tiers
Data the institution filed under reporting obligation (NIRF, NAAC, AISHE). Audited or cross-referenced against prior years.
Data the college publishes on its own website, brochure, or placement report. Shown on the page with a MED tag — never silently mixed with HIGH-confidence numbers.
We don't publish LOW-confidence data. If the best we can do is "probably", we leave the field empty.
What we exclude, and why
- Star ratings. No transparent methodology, no way to cite them.
- Branch-level placement when not publicly broken out. CSE vs. ECE differences exist, but the data usually doesn't.
- "Average" package. Skewed by outliers. Median tells a truer story. NIRF agrees.
- User reviews as data. Unverified and gameable. We'll surface them separately from facts.
Conflict of interest
unbiasEd is funded by Propelld, an education lending company. Propelld does not see or influence our data or editorial decisions. No college, lender, or third party pays for placement on this site. Full disclosure →
The pipeline (how a page gets made)
Gates enforce: every number matches JSON, no branch-level claims, no invented recruiters, schema validates, source chain is intact. A page that fails any gate doesn't publish.
Update cadence
NIRF and NAAC data refresh once a year; college filings update whenever the college publishes. We re-extract and re-review every three months. Each page shows its last-reviewed date.
Challenge our data
Email data@unbiased.college with the source. We publicly log every correction in §9, with what changed and why.
Changelog
Published corrections appear here. No corrections logged yet.