The Filter is a unique website that helps college lacrosse student athletes identify colleges that are right for them. Through a truly unique and proprietary filtering system, lacrosse student athletes are able to filter lacrosse colleges based on both general college, academic and lacrosse based filters. The Filter also produces various lacrosse college rankings, team profiles pages, lacrosse school interactive maps, custom bookmarking, interest tracking and much more. All of this is to put a spotlight on colleges so that lacrosse student athletes can make the best possible college decision.

The Filter has curated comprehensive data on lacrosse colleges including traditional and lacrosse based data. This information comes from:

• The Department of Education
• The NCAA
• Individual College Websites
• Lacrosse Coaches
  • a portion of The Filter’s website is dedicated to allow lacrosse coaches to update their own information
• College Scorecard Data from the U.S. Department of Education
  • Data on post-graduate earnings
• Equity in Athletics Data Analysis from the U.S. Department of Education
  • Athletic financial information
• Office of Post-Secondary Education from the U.S. Department of Education
  • College date on athletics, campus crime and loan default information
• Lacrosse Conference Websites
• National Science Foundation
  • Data on college expenditures by department

The Filter’s rankings are purely objective. There is no component to the rankings that is subjective, at all. There are no reviews, no polls, no influences, no reputation considerations. It is only about the data and factual information. To ensure that our information is as factual as possible we use the most reliable information as mentioned above and also double check that information by periodically requesting that lacrosse coaches review and update their data. More Information on the various rankings below:

This rank combines both traditional college metrics with lacrosse metrics. The traditional metrics are weighted (55.50%) and the lacrosse metrics are weighted (44.50%).

Traditional Metrics include graduation and retention rates, admission rates, tuition, campus metrics, post college metrics, student teacher ratios, and college financial health factors.

Lacrosse Metrics include, tournament appearances, current conference championships, national championships, historically winning percentages, previous year rankings, college spending on lacrosse, home game attendance, and coach longevity and success.

This ranking uses the same methodology as the Filter rank, except that it only uses the academic, financial and other traditional college based data.

This ranking uses the same methodology as the Filter rank, except that it only uses the lacrosse based data.

This ranking uses available data that measures students’ financial and professional success post-college. This information has been largely curated from the College Scorecard Data (from the U.S. Department of Education) and the Office of Post-Secondary Education (from the U.S. Department of Education).

These are all single element ranks. They are self explanatory.