Colleges & Universities for Students: Websites

This site provides easy access to the addresses, phone numbers, and websites of some 2,000 community colleges in the United States. Also gives information on all aspects of two-year colleges, including historical background, news items, relevant legislative issues, statistics, events calendar, job openings, grants, and even a list of members of Congress with community college backgrounds. Searchable.

Over 300 colleges designated as the best by the Princeton Review. The colleges are rated by academics, politics, demographics, quality of life, parties, extracurricular activities, and social life.

Interested in residential colleges? This site provides a list of websites of Oxford/Cambridge-style residential colleges at universities around the world. Residential colleges are small, cross-sectional societies of students and faculty within a larger university.

"The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), since 1972, has been the collective spirit and voice of our nation's Tribal Colleges and Universities, advocating on behalf of individual institutions of higher education that are defined and controlled by their respective tribal nations. AIHEC's mission is to nurture, advocate, and protect American Indian history, culture, art and language, and the legal and human rights of American Indian people ..."

This source for college information allows you to search for U.S. colleges by name, location, type of institution, and programs/majors. Provides material about expenses, financial aid, enrollment, admission, athletics, and more. Include multiple institutions on a "favorites" list to see side-by-side comparisons. Also includes links to material about applying for financial aid and careers. From the Institute of Education Science, U.S. Department of Education.

AMCSUS is "a non-profit service organization for schools with military programs approved by the Department of Defense." Most colleges and schools listed have Web links.

A list of Canadian universities and a partial explanation of Canadian higher education.

Complete lists and rankings of universities

Christianity Today International (CTI) in partnership with Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU)

A guide evaluating the educational classes given by the U.S. Armed Services, put out by the American Council on Education (ACE). Includes information on transfering and awarding credits.

Website to help prepare for and choose a college or graduate school. Formerly publisher's of Peterson's Guides.

Online Admissions Applications & Online Transfer Equivalencies for Michigan schools.

A non-profit site with advice and resources for financial aid for college students. Useful financial aid estimator and scholarship scam sections.

"Paying for school just got easier". "Your FREE scholarship search solution"

Links to college admissions offices, aplication forms, and scholarship & financial aid offices.

From the College Planning Network.

A non-commercial site primarely sponcered by lenders involved in financial aid, it offers information on careers, schools & applications, financial aid and money management advice.

"One stop source for life after high school", searches for information on scholarships, colleges, careers, ...and loans.

Canadian with some American. Commercial site.

Local scholarships.

Link to the SC4 scholarship Opportunities webpage.

State site for financial aid for students attending college or university in Michigan.

Information on college completion, Pell grants, and student loans.

A federal website explaining options and providing advise and links.

Tool for comparing higher education costs for students.