Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The College Navigator
The College Navigator website developed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and launched in September has been named by Money Magazine as one of the magazine's top 28 websites and one of the best places to start a college search.
College Navigator (http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/) replaced the College Opportunities Online (COOL) website and offers a variety of enhanced and easy-to-use features to help students and parents learn about colleges and universities. The site offers information about nearly 7,000 postsecondary institutions in the United States.
"Select basic constraints like location, public or private college and major," the Money article states, and College Navigator will "pump out a list of colleges. Click on any of them and you get a full set of the latest data on expenses, aid, enrollment, admissions and graduation rates, majors and more, along with a Google map pinpointing location. There's also a good comparison tool, and you can export data into an Excel sheet."
Since its launch on September 26, 2007, the website has received nearly 500,000 visitors who made more than 6.2 million page views.
To read the Money Magazine article online, visit http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/29/pf/bestweb_college.moneymag/index.htm
