College Information

Gateway Sites

Adventures in Education
Includes a wide array of college and career information to help students, parents, and guidance counselors. It has three major areas for help.
Planning a Career: Develop a career plan by exploring your interests and improve career hunting skills.
Selecting a School: Prepare academically, schedule the right exams, and find the right school.
Paying for School: Apply for financial aid, manage your money, and re-pay your student loan.

Careers and Colleges
Explore careers and colleges, and search for scholarships and loans.

College Bound
Collegebound has provided information on colleges, universities, career schools, scholarships, degrees, certificates, and education, and offers a range of advice for issues teens will face when heading out to college for the first time.

College is Possible
College Is Possible (CIP) is the American Council on Education's (ACE) K–16 youth development program, motivates middle and high school students from underserved communities to seek a college education. ACE partnered with 47 member institutions around the country to build a bridge between colleges and universities and their local K-12 community with commitment at the executive level.

CollegeNet
Narrow down by region, college sports, major, tuition, and several other criteria. Hotlink from your search list directly to homepages of the schools in which you are interested. Review, compare, and sort schools according to exclusive, detailed profiles provided by ACT.

Degree Search
Find the colleges and universities that offer specific types of degree or certificate programs. For example, a search for degree programs in "biomedical engineering" in the United States returned links to 40 different schools. For students who know the type of program in which they wish to enroll; this is a great tool.

Fastweb
Fastweb allows students to prepare great-looking college applications quickly and easily. Applying to multiple colleges? Fastweb's award winning software eliminates the drudgery. You enter your application information just once, no matter the number of colleges. You get crisp, printed application documents that match each college's own forms. There's no guesswork, and no standardized forms. Every application meets the individual college's requirements exactly.

GoCollege
The GoCollege search engine allows college bound students a quick and easy way to match their test results and desired majors, geographic location, and tuition dollars available to the appropriate schools. Use of GoCollege is free and holds no obligation to the user other than the simple registration form to access their database.

National Registration Center for Study Abroad
Colleges by Country - a resource for students looking for Study Abroad opportunities.

Peterson’s
Peterson's provides information about colleges and universities, career schools, graduate programs, distance learning, executive training, private secondary schools, summer opportunities, study abroad, financial aid, test preparation, and career exploration.

Princeton Review
Includes college, testing and financial aid information, plus students assess their colleges' academics, administration, politics, sports scenes, and more.

SallieMae College Answer
Information on preparing for college, selecting a college, and financing your education.

Study Abroad
A starting point for information on study abroad and educational travel worldwide. Find thousands of opportunities and resources from around the globe.

The University Pages
This site provides easy access to the various college and university home pages. Each college and university home page will generate specific information about that institution. Managed by the University of Texas at Austin.

USNews and World Reports
In addition to this year's college rankings, they offer a detailed school directory, interactive college search tools, a step-by-step college admissions guide, articles, and more.