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The bill standardizes and centralizes program‑level college cost and outcome information—making comparisons and planning easier for students—while imposing new reporting and implementation costs on institutions, introducing privacy risks for small subgroups, and leaving net‑price estimates non‑binding.
Students and families get standardized, program‑level net‑price and cost information (tied to program length and completion) so they can compare likely out‑of‑pocket costs across colleges and majors.
Students and prospective students (and institutions) can download year‑by‑year, disaggregated program data (by income, race, disability, enrollment status) and benefit from clearer, uniform reporting definitions, improving apples‑to‑apples program comparisons.
Students and families get a Department‑developed Universal Net Price Calculator plus annual updates (with CPI adjustment authority), providing a consistent tool and more timely comparability across institutions.
Colleges and state agencies will face new reporting, mapping, IT, and training costs to collect, recategorize, and publish expanded program‑level and disaggregated data, creating significant administrative burden.
Students—especially low‑income applicants—may be worse off because net‑price figures are explicitly non‑binding and the bill removes the FAFSA early Pell‑estimator, reducing reliable upfront visibility into likely award amounts.
Students in small or narrowly defined demographic subgroups (including people with disabilities) face privacy risks from more granular subgroup reporting, which could increase chances of inadvertent identification.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Requires program-level net-price disclosures using new cost and time-to-credential definitions, expands grant inclusion, replaces College Navigator with College Scorecard, and repeals the early-estimator tool.
Introduced December 9, 2025 by Brett Guthrie · Last progress December 9, 2025
Requires colleges and the Department of Education to publish more detailed, program-level price and net-price information on the federal College Scorecard, using new definitions for costs, grants, program length, and time-to-credential. It narrows the unit of disclosure to a defined “program of study” (tied to six-digit CIP code(s) and a single credential level), expands what counts as grant and scholarship aid, adds several new net-price metrics, replaces references to the College Navigator website with the College Scorecard, and eliminates a statutory early-estimator tool. The changes take effect July 1, 2027, and apply beginning with award year 2027–2028.