Career and College Resources

Accredited Online Colleges Is a comprehensive and informative database that ranks each university throughout the nation by size, degrees offered, tuition costs, admission, graduation, and retention rates.

BigFuture  It’s an incredibly robust database that allows you to develop a targeted list of potential colleges based on your interests and career goals.  Using information you provide about your grades, test scores and interests, BigFuture will help you create a list of “safety” and “reach” schools, as well as track important application deadlines. Besides its college search function, The College Board’s BigFuture also has a scholarship search tool. When you create an account, BigFuture will automatically match you with potential scholarship and grant opportunities.  Great feature: The BigFuture dashboard gives you one central place to create a shortlist of potential colleges, manage school applications and apply for financial aid.

Career Cruising A website to help you figure out what you are best suited to do as a career.  There is extensive information on various careers. 

College Scorecard  A free tool designed by the U.S. Department of Education. It’s been updated and is easier to use than before, allowing you to search for schools by name, location, field of study or selectivity.

College View This website provides information on public and private colleges.  Included are photos, maps, profiles, contact information, school facts, community information and attractions.  Find the right college by location, major, test scores, size, and various other criteria.

Fast Web Find scholarships, financial aid advice, how to fill out your FAFSA, how to score high on entrance exams, how to choose a college, and what to bring to your dorm.

Occupational Outlook Handbook This reference source provides information on job earnings, future job prospects, working conditions and education and training needed for hundreds of careers.

Princeton College Review  A company best-known for its college rankings. Each year, it publishes its lists of the best national and regional colleges in the country.  However, the Princeton Review also has a powerful online college search tool. It’s free to use, and you can filter schools by location, size, major and institution type, as well as by…

• Campus setting: Choose from large urban, small urban, suburban, village or rural locales

• Activities: If you’re interested in a particular activity, such as a college television station or choral group, you can use the activity filter to find schools that run those programs.

• Academics: The Princeton Review even lets you filter by average SAT or ACT score and GPA, so you can find schools that best match your own grades and scores.

Tuition Funding A private website designed to help students find scholarships, college and career information. TFS offers students the largest scholarship database in the world with over $41 Billion in scholarship awards along with a career personality test and detailed college and career information.

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