How we make money, stated plainly.
Georgia College Guide is free to read. Advertising and affiliate modules are not running on the site today. This page is the rule for when they are.
When an ad network is connected, placements will be marked. Advertisers will have no access to, and no influence over, editorial content, rankings, or the underlying data. Until then, pages do not show ad boxes.
When a partner offer is connected, those links will be marked and will use rel="sponsored nofollow". A click that leads to an account or a quote may earn a commission. That never costs the reader more, and it never changes what we publish. Partner modules stay separate from editorial text and data tables. No partner offer is live right now, so those modules are omitted.
Rankings are computed from federal data by published formulas. No school, lender, or advertiser has any input into them, and none has ever been offered any.
We do not currently link to student-loan comparison services. If that partnership is turned on later, the module will say so on the page. The editorial position stays the same either way: borrowing less beats borrowing cheaply, so grants, scholarships, net-price calculators, and lower-cost institutions come first.