These are sites to explore if you're thinking about continuing your education and want to know which college / university / community college / vocational schools, offer which programs. College selection should be based on many factors, not just programs offered. For instance, the location of the school, the size of the community (is it rural or urban?), the size of the student population (is it a small school or a large one?), the social climate of the school, the sports programs offered, the housing possibilities, are all major components in making choices about which institution you want to attend. I can't stress enough the idea that if you are not comfortable and happy at your school, the odds of you doing well in your program are definitely reduced.

Once you've selected a few schools that interest you, be sure to visit them if at all possible. There is no substitute for actually walking around a campus, sitting in on a lecture, sleeping in a dorm, eating in the dining hall, etc. If it's not possible to actually visit a campus, come into the career center and see the catalogue for your possible school, check out the video on that school (we don't have all schools on video yet, but we're rapidly expanding our collection), or possibly do a "virtual tour" of a campus via the net.

College Search Sites

• ABET - Search for accredited engineering programs.
• Advanced School Search on The Princeton Review - A great search engine for locating programs which are career or vocationally oriented.  Includes Bachelors, AA and certificate degrees.
• America's Best Colleges 2007: Advanced College Search - search engine for finding schools that match a person's criteria for higher education
• ArtSchools.com - The Art School & Program Directory.
• Association of Independent California Colleges & Universities - download the complete AICCU guide here in PDF.
• BrowseColleges.com  All colleges and universities in the U.S. can be browsed here by state, degree, name, or occupation of interest which a degree applies.  Financial Aid resources are also available here.
• California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education  You can search for programs and or locations of programs using this site. 
• CaliforniaColleges.edu - is a great search engine for public, private, community college, as well as four year colleges
• California Community Colleges  - alphabetical listing of all community colleges in California.
• California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office - find programs throughout the state with this search engine
• California Community College Map - a map of California showing all the community colleges and the counties they are located in.
• California Community College Dorm Listing - a list with links to community colleges with dormitories on site.
• College Express A comprehensive site.
• College Net: Another comprehensive site for checking out the competition.
• College Search by College Board
• College View: A good site to start your college exploration. It asks you about your personal preferences and will sort schools in order of meeting your needs.
• Colleges with the highest acceptance rates - A report from US New and World Report
• Community College Web
• CSO College Center provides an online clearinghouse of college programs and admissions information serving first-generation and other historically underserved student populations.
• CSU Mentor Apply online to any CSU campus, plus information and links for all CSU campus'. CSU Majors List - All majors and minors offered at the 23 California State University campuses in a convenient table.
• California State University Information about the California State University system.
• Dental Hygiene Program at San Joaquin Valley College - Dental Hygiene program AA + national board to become a registered dental hygienist
• DesignSchools.com  Directory for design schools located across the country
• FastWeb.com a comprehensive resource guide
• FilmSchools.com Film school directory
• GCSAA - Turf Management Educational Programs - A directory of colleges and programs offering "turf management" as a major.
• Making It Count
• National Catholic College Admission Association Search engine just for Catholic colleges and universities.
• National Center for Education Statistics The top group of links as it is a search engine to find and compare schools in any area of the US.  All you need is a geographical area and you're good to go!
• Peterson's Guide: A huge data base of information, from programs to financial aid, and everything in between. You can also access grad school and professional school information here.
• Peterson's Private School DataBase
• Sport Management Programs - The North American Society for Sport Management lists Sport Management Programs in North America, including programs that have been reviewed by the Sport Management Program Review Council (SMPRC) and have met the required NASSM/NASPE approval standards.
• U-CAN - University and College Accountability Network is a search engine for all private colleges and universities in the US.  It has great information and is very complete.
• University of California Admissions Online information and applications for all UC campus'.
• Western Undergraduate Exchange  Through WUE, students in western states may enroll in many two-year and four-year college programs at a reduced tuition level: 150 percent of the institution's regular resident tuition. WUE tuition is considerably less than nonresident tuition.

Listings Of Schools

• Accredited programs for physician assistants
• American Colleges and Universities - Listings for community colleges and universities in each state or search by college name
• American Universities
• Americas Best Colleges 2007 by US News and World Report.
• Black College and Universities - A listing of historically black colleges, by state, with links to each school.
• Business Training in California
• California Community Colleges Listings - a great website to research community colleges in California
• California Post secondary Education Commission - Guide to California Colleges and Universities
• Catholic USA  A listing of Catholic Schools by state.
• Culinary Schools
• Culinary Schools List
• Fashion Schools and Colleges
• SAT/ACT Optional Schools - these schools do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting students
• Shaw Guide to Career Cooking and Wine Schools
• Tribal Colleges
• The Princeton Review: A terrific resource, and it's huge!
• U.S. Two-Year Colleges - Over 1,000 two-year campus links
• Web U.S. Universities: 1064 colleges and universities are alphabetically listed and hyper-linked to home pages at each institution.
• Web U.S. Community Colleges: These listings are by state, and are alphabetically organized. This is a good site for exploring many vocational and pre-college programs.
• University Links: This site lists American, Canadian and International Colleges and Universities, as well as Community Colleges around the world.
• Education Planner - Directory for finding vocational technical schools in hundreds of career areas, throughout the US.
• California Two-Year Colleges
• International Student helps you look at colleges and universities in other countries.

Campus Tours

• Campus Tours take a virtual tour
• eCampusTours.com virtual college tours, plus college planning and career exploration
• Dorm Tours offers views of some schools and the inside of their dorms
• Electronic Campus offers views of some smaller universities and two-year schools.

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