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GENERAL

Federal School Code Search Page
Use this site to look up a school code! The School Code for SAC is 009163.

College for Texans
"...everything a Texan needs to know to about preparing for, applying to and paying for college or technical school."

College Selection and Financial Aid
Michigan State University Libraries provides links to college and scholarship resources.

Colleges and Universities
The University of Kentucky maintains this World Wide Web Subject Catalog with general and specialized links to college and university information on the web.

Petersons.com : The Education Supersite
Peterson's says this is "the most comprehensive education resource on the web."

College Board
Find information about preparing for college, taking the tests, choosing a college, and paying for college. Search for colleges, take a tour, learn about the college essay, and much more.

College is Possible
"America's colleges and universities have prepared this site to guide you to the books, websites, and other resources that admissions and financial aid professionals consider most helpful.

College Net
"With information on about 3,000 colleges, it is straightforward, easy to use, and loaded with information. This is one site that will help with all your college decision making and scholarship seeking needs."

College Admissions: U.S.
Shah J. Chaudhry maintains this About.Com college admissions page with links to major categories and original articles.

U.S. Universities & Community Colleges
UT Austin Web Central maintains links to Web servers at universities and community colleges in the U.S.

RANKINGS

College and University Rankings
"At this site, you will find links to many ranking services, along with cautionary notes and a discussion of the ongoing controversy over rankings. The listing of items on our site's pages in no way constitutes an endorsement of a ranking service by the Education and Social Science Library or by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."

U.S. News Online : Education

U.S. News Online: Americas Best Colleges

The Princeton Review: Best 345 College Rankings

National Survey of Student Engagement: The College Student Report

VIRTUAL TOURS

Hobson's College View
This "site offers the most extensive multimedia virtual tours of colleges and universities on the World Wide Web. It also features the most extensive college information database on the World Wide Web.

CampusTours.com
The Source for Virtual College Tours.

COMMUNITY COLLEGES

San Antonio College

Palo Alto College

St. Philip's College

Northwest Vista College

Northeast Lakeview College

U.S. Two-Year Colleges
"The Most Complete List Available: Over 1,000 U.S. Two-Year Campus Links"

DISTANCE EDUCATION

Community College Web
"This site links to 1287 community college web sites plus 181 related resource sites."

Distance Learning
Education Index has "catalogued, reviewed, and commented on the best Web sites for distance education."

Distance Education Clearinghouse
University of Wisconsin-Extension offers "index", "search", "new items", as well as links to information about distance education.

SAC Online
Register for classes, get financial aid, ask a counselor...all online!

World Lecture Hall
Created at the University of Texas at Austin, this site "contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the web to deliver class materials."

SEARCH ENGINES / WEB DIRECTORIES

Yahoo! Education : Higher Education


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