Possible (rough) idea

One thought I had was to find some way to visually compare colleges/universities. There's a lot of data out there, but it's all just lists of numbers, as far as I can tell. There are sites to help you compare (http://www.collegeview.com/collegesearch/CompareSchools.jsp, http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/compare_schools.jsp), but it just shows the numbers side by side. Shouldn't there be some better way of showing this data?

Is there already something like this out there that any of you know of? I couldn't find anything, but I just came up with the idea (well, my mom and I brainstormed it up!).

I don't really have a lot of specifics yet, but there are so many variables that people want to take into account when they're thinking about school. There must be better ways to represent them than with just numbers. Geographical location is an obvious one to represent via maps...

Let me know what you think. Is it interesting to enough people? Something that hasn't been well-visualized? etc

~Jackie