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Welcome to SmarterGrads

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Our Mission

At SmarterGrads, we believe in a world where every aspiring graduate has the clarity to make informed decisions about their career and education track they want to pursue. Our mission is to create a world where students can see beyond the marketing and understand the hard numbers to make smarter decisions, ensuring that their educational journey is not just a dream, but positions them for a strong financial outlook.

Our Mission
Education Options

Discover your education options

Discover a world of educational opportunities tailored to your unique interests and goals. Whether you're looking at undergraduate options, trade schools, or want to pursue post-graduate education, SmarterGrads empowers you to explore the diverse paths in education. As you find options that align with your goals save them to your profile so you can organize the short list on what you want to model.

Gain clarity on the outcomes

Our powerful simulation capabilities allow you to model within seconds thousands of diverse career and education paths and get personalized insights into the career's earning potential, the total investment costs you should expect to incur, your take home pay expectations after college, as well as other metrics to answer the ultimate question: Will it all be worth it?

Career in Mind
Path Less Traveled

Make an informed decision

With our innovative comparison features, you can perform a side-by-side analysis of your desired career and education tracks. Gain unparalleled clarity on the tradeoffs and outcomes, ensuring you make an informed decision that aligns perfectly with your aspirations. Your future deserves a choice driven by insight, not just instincts. Let's start your future strong today.

How It Works


Selecting the right career and education track is overwhelming to navigate and we believe your best years are ahead. Through a few steps we can help you understand the financial outcomes you should expect when making the investment in yourself.

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Create a new scenario

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Define your career of interest and education path

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Define your plan to fund it

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Tell us where you want to live after college

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Understand your return on investment, time to pay the investment back, earning forecast, as well as other metrics to understand the financials

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Compare different scenarios to understand the tradeoffs so you are armed to make the right decision


Partner with SmarterGrads

We are on a mission to change the conversation with our students away from short-term thinking and helping them make smarter decisions that set them up well for their future. We are seeking great partners who can help us advance the cause ahead. If you are school district or college who believe in what we believe we would love to talk.

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