Students using the federal College Scorecard can no longer search for Hispanic-serving or Asian American-serving colleges. The Education Department quietly removed those filters along with several others for minority-serving institutions.

The College Scorecard is a free government website that lets families compare schools by cost, graduation rates and how much graduates go on to earn. Inside Higher Ed reported Wednesday that the change was made on Oct. 15 as part of a larger update.

Filters for historically Black colleges and universities and for tribal colleges are still there. The ones that were removed include Hispanic-serving institutions, Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institutions and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions.

Part of a wider shift

The change comes as the Trump administration moves to cut grant programs that support minority-serving institutions. The administration has argued that the eligibility rules for those programs, which are based largely on the share of students from certain groups, are unconstitutional.

HBCUs and tribal colleges are defined by their history and mission rather than by enrollment numbers, which is one reason they have been treated differently in recent federal decisions.

New earnings data

The same update added a new data point to the site: what a typical student earns seven years after finishing school. Until now the Scorecard only showed earnings one year and five years out.

For Latino and Asian American families who used the filters to find campuses with strong support programs, the colleges themselves have not changed. Students can still look up any school by name and check its own website for its federal designations.