Welcome to the University Deathpool

A data-driven autopsy of higher education's great unraveling.

🎓 What Is This?

The higher education landscape is shifting — fast.
Rising costs. Falling enrollments. Shifting value.
It’s a perfect storm, and some universities won’t survive it.

The University Deathpool is your data-driven look into which schools are at risk, which are thriving, and why.

🔍 Explore the Dashboard:

🧠 U.S. Collegiate Deathpool

A national map of survivability scores for private universities.

✝️ The Faith Bubble

A look at religious-affiliated schools, denominational trends, and market pressure.

🧟‍♂️ University Postmortem

What went wrong, what can be learned — and who’s next?

🛠 Built with:

IPEDS & Form 990 data (2017–2023)
Custom survivability index formulas
A morbid curiosity for fiscal chaos

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives... but the one most responsive to change.”
— Charles Darwin (…or maybe a university CFO)

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