The College Board website is a helpful tool for prospective college students that provides information about finding colleges, as well as applying for, and paying for, school. The College Search tool on the College Board website allows students to customize their search by selecting criteria in eight different categories, including type of school, location, majors, sports, and more. This tool allows students to view profiles of various colleges that meet their needs and even provides the option of side-by-side comparison.
The College Search tool on the College Net website gives students the option to search for colleges by keyword or by doing a custom search to narrow down the type of school, location, and major. This website also offers a scholarship tool and gives students the chance to enter for weekly chances to win a scholarship given away by the website. College Net is a website that provides students with resources to aid them in every aspect of choosing a college from the college itself to finding help paying for school.
College View is a self-named college finder and recruiter service that helps students find schools that match their needs in addition to providing helpful resources about financial aid, campus life, and the application process. This website allows students to search for schools using the criteria they deem most important like tuition and majors, even Greek life and the party scene on campus. College View also offers students the opportunity to participate in periodic online chats with representatives from different schools.
The College Navigator site is sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics and it provides students with an interactive college search tool that uses a variety of search options, maps, and lists for side-by-side comparison. The "Guide Me" option on this website walks students through the process of searching for schools and helps them compile a list to compare and allows students to save their search results for future reference.