Niche College Rankings is an American college ranking site that incorporates analysis of college based statistics and reviews. Niche also features A-D rankings for K-12 schools and neighborhoods or districts. Niche's rankings are updated every year. This is shown as they first developed college rankings by major as well as rankings and graded Report Cards for community colleges and trade schools. Niche provides its own grading system that applies a Bayesian method. In 2017, Niche provides several rankings in each category, "Best Colleges," "Best by Major," "Best by State," "Admissions," "Campus Life," "Student," and "Academics". Niche collects more than 100 million college reviews and survey responses as well as comprehensive data such as U.S Department of Education. Niche also incorporates data from the new "College Scorecard Data" that was introduced in 2015 by the Obama Administration under the U.S Department of Education.