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Stacker compiled a list of the best public colleges in America using 2026 rankings from Niche, which ranks schools on academics, admissions, and more.

Researching a pursuit in higher education? Stacker ranked the 100 best private colleges in the U.S., based on data from Niche released in 2021.

Stacker compiled a list of the 50 metro areas with the most unoccupied homes by analyzing data from the Census Bureau’s 2021 American Community Survey, released in September 2022.

Stacker lists 10 ways consumers end up overspending in stores and online, with tips to help curb the effect of store tactics and manipulation.

Stacker used data from a 2020 PayScale report to rank the top 100 college majors that make the most money.

America’s wealth gap is wide and getting wider, with the number of billionaires multiplying during the coronavirus pandemic. Stacker takes a look at how we got where we are.

From domestic service jobs to the board room, Stacker traces the history of women in the workplace drawing on news reports, government documents, and think tank data.

Stacker compiled a list of 15 ways personal data is revealed to social media companies. 

Sophisticated software, robotics, automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and changing trends are threatening the livelihoods of everyone from taxi drivers and restaurant servers to computer programmers and librarians. Stacker looks at jobs that might not exist in 50 years. 

Stacker compiled a list of the best places to retire on the East Coast using Niche’s 2025 Best Places to Retire in America ranking.

Stacker compared the minimum wage in each state and Washington, D.C. to the cost of living, referring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Living Wage Calculator.

Stacker compiled a list of the best places to live in America as of August 2025, using Niche data on cities, towns, and suburbs.

Stacker takes a look at the best school district in every state based on 2022 data from Niche.

Stacker looked at Niche’s 2021 list of the best value colleges in America. This ranking includes only public, four-year colleges and weighs the cost of tuition with each school’s acceptance rate, quality of professors, diversity, and the median earnings for alumni six years after graduation.

Stacker used the most recent U.S. Census Bureau Five-Year American Community Survey data, last updated in December 2020, to pull crucial information about each town, including the unemployment rate and median household income. 

Fund that Flip analyzed house flipping research from Attom Data Solutions to determine the five U.S. metros that saw the highest ROI for home flipping during the second quarter of 2021. 

Data from EquityMultiple reveals the four categories of commercial real estate that dominated the past quarter century in the United States

Using August 2021 data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Zerodown analyzed the four U.S. regions (Northeast, Midwest, South, West) and compared median sales prices for homes sold over the past year.

All new cars depreciate, but some lose value more than others. CoPilot ranked the 15 vehicle models from 2018 to 2020 that depreciated the most in 2021.

UpNest consulted real estate investors, realtors, and home improvement specialists to compile a list of 10 things a homebuyer should know before flipping a home.

To find the top 20 states with the most new small businesses per capita, Simply Business analyzed the Census Bureau’s Business Formation Statistics from August 2020 to July 2021.

Real estate referral site UpNest examined household wealth by generation using Federal Reserve data that goes back to 1989.

NursingEducation used data from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing to compile the top 20 states for pass rates on the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) in 2020.

UpNest analyzed ATTOM’s Year End 2020 U.S. Home-Flipping Report to identify 10 statistics that look at the state of the American home-flipping industry. 

Using data from the World Economic Forum, Stacker compiled a list of the 25 countries with the largest income disparity.