College and University

Books: College Guides & Scholarship Information

US News Ultimate College Guide 2008

Academic Rankings of World Universities- Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Admission Impossible - by Keith Gessen, New York Times, March 16, 2008. Discusses Fat Envelope Frenzy: One Year, Five Promising Students, and the Pursuit of the Ivy League Prize by Joie Jager-hyman and The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Impostor James Hogue by David Samuels.

American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers

American Association of Community Colleges

American Association of University Professors (AAUP) - Press Releases, and information on chapters, conferences and meetings.

American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment

American Council on Education - With Member Directory

American Field Service - "Non-profit volunteer based educational organization offering exchanges for students, young adults and teachers in over 50 countries around the world."

American Universities - Mike Conlon

American-Scandinavian Foundation - Organization that promotes international understanding through educational and cultural exchange between the United States and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

AmeriCorps - "Program that allows people of all ages and backgrounds to earn help paying for education in exchange for a year of service." (Corporation for National Services)

ARIN: Whois - Input the name of a college or university and find its IP number and address. (Although the IP number won't necessarily bring you to the college's web site.)

AScribe - Provides journalists and the public with access to news from U.S. academic institutions, research centers, foundations, public-policy groups and other nonprofit organizations. Offers LiveNewswire with news releases that have been issued during the last 7 days. For more about AScribe, see Matt Richtel's article, A News Service Caters to Nonprofit Groups in the August 7, 2000 New York Times (free registration).

Asia's Best Universities - Asiaweek

Association for Institutional Research - Has a section of Internet Resources for Institutional Research

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)

Association of American Colleges & Universities

Association of American Medical Colleges - With directory of Medical Schools of the U.S. and Canada.

Association of Canadian Community Colleges

Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges

Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada - Includes a Directory of Canadian Universities.

Baseball America Online: College Baseball

Best Business Schools - Business Week

Beyond Grey Pinstripes - "Research survey and alternative ranking of business schools that spotlights innovative full-time MBA programs..."

Binge Drinking on Campus: Results of a National Study - Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention. Published by the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention. You can also search the ERIC Database for binge-drinking to locate journal citations.

Campus Newspapers on the Internet - Daily Beacon, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

CampusTours - Virtual campus tours of U.S. colleges & universities.

Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)

Canadian Universities/Universités Canadiennes - Chris Redmond, University of Waterloo.

Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning - Search for institution by name or keyword.

Catholic College Search - National Catholic College Admission Association.

Cavalier Daily Online - University of Virginia paper has Archives back to 1996. (There's an article on Faculty Salaries in the April 28, 1999 issue which lists 1999-00 Faculty Salaries.)

Center for Studies in Higher Education - University of California, Berkeley.

The Big Curve: Trends in University Fees and Financing in the EU and US - By John Aubrey Douglass and Ruth Keeling. CSHE.19.2008 (November 2008)

The Center Research Universities Ranking - Gainesville Florida research enterprise is known for its ranking of the Top American Research Universities.

CHE Excellence Ranking 2007/2008 - Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE)

Chronicle of Higher Education - Academe Today - There's also an Information Technology section.

Classement International Professionnel des Etablissements d'Enseignement Superiour - Mines Paris Tech. French system determines rankings based on number of CEOs who head the 500 largest businesses around the world. See Les 338 premiers établissements d'enseignement supérieur

College and Character - John Templeton Foundation has put online the Templeton Guide: Colleges that Encourage Character Development. The guide "profiles 405 exemplary college programs in ten categories that inspire students to lead ethical and civic-minded lives, as well as 50 college presidents selected for their leadership in this area and 100 colleges named to the Templeton Honor Roll." Search colleges alphabetically, by state, or by highlighted program - programs include Substance Abuse Prevention, Character and Sexuality and Spiritual Growth.

College and University Home Pages - Christina DeMello's alphabetical and geographical listing, international in scope

College and University Rankings - Annotated compilation of links to graduate and undergraduate Internet resources provided by the Education and Social Science Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

College Board Online - Register online for the SATs. Site includes Scholarship Search, College Search, Financial Aid Calculators, a Code List Search for College Board code numbers for high schools and colleges, and College Board Test Dates. There's also an AP (Advanced Placement) page with a FAQ page.

College Athletics - Official colors and nicknames for over 3,600 colleges.

College Cash: Tax-free savings for higher education - By Less Antman, C.P.A., Harvard Magazine, New England Regional Edition, November-December 2001.

College Fight Songs Homepage - Trevor D. Barnes

College is Possible: American Council on Education - Coalition of America's Colleges and Universities.

CollegeJournal - Wall Street Journal publication for college students offers feature articles on graduate schools and job hunting.

College News

College News Online - "Free campus newswire and student service dedicated to meeting the Internet needs of students, graduates and others interested in higher education." The site indexes about 400 student-run and campus newspapers.

College Nicknames - Adam Joshua Smargon

College Opportunities On-Line (COOL) - Direct link to over 9,000 colleges and universities in the United States.You can search for a college based on its location, program, or degree offerings either alone or in combination. (Provided by the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education.)

College Savings

Coverdell Education Savings Accounts

529 College Savings Plans

Custodial accounts (UGMA and UTMA)

Health and Education Exclusion Trust (HEET)

Prepaid Tuition (offered by Harvard and Middlebury for example)

College Radio (live)

CJMQ 88.9 FM - Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec

KALX 90.7 FM - University of California Berkeley

WPRB 103.3 FM - Princeton University

WNYU 89.1 FM - New York University

KEXP 90.3 FM - University of Washington

CHMA 106.9 FM - Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick

National Campus and Community Radio Association

College Sports News Daily

College Town Issues - Information about issues related to student and year-round residents living and working together in college towns.

CollegeLink - Information about financial aid and planning for college.

CollegeNET - Over 500 colleges and universities have contracted with them to serve their official web-based admissions applications.

CollegeView - Search for colleges, universities, scholarships and financial aid.

Collegeways - "Provides retention resources for individuals and educational institutions."

Collegiate Choice Walking Tours - Videos of actual student guided campus tours offered at over 330 colleges and universities. Videos are $15 with an additional $6 for shipping. They also offer advice on campus visits, application essays, SATS and links to other resources.

Collegiate Directories - National Directory of College Athletics.

Common Application - "Recommended form of 255 selective colleges and universities for admission to their undergraduate programs."

Community College Web - Maricopa Community College District provides this searchable index of over 1,000 community colleges web sites in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere around the world.

Community College Week

Computer Policy and Law - Offers a Policy Collection from many institutions and links to On-Line Resources.

Conference Alerts: Academic conferences worldwide

Cool Crowd: 10 That Get It - Sierrra Club's annual list of cool schools appears in the September/October issue, which includes Sierra’s annual Green College Guide. Top ten: Middlebury; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Vermont, Burlington; Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina; Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington; Arizona State University, Tempe; University of Florida, Gainesville; Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; University of Washington, Seattle; Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.

Council for Aid to Education - Publishes an annual list of fundraisers in Voluntary Support of Education Report

Council for International Exchange of Scholars - Fulbright Senior Scholar Program

The Dartmouth - America's oldest college newspaper began publication in 1799.

Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University - "Collection of primary resources from HBCU libraries and archives. It includes several thousand scanned pages and represents HBCU libraries first collaborative effort to make a historic collection digitially available. Collections are contributed from member libraries of the Historically Black College and University Library Alliance." View collections by Participating Institution.

Digital Diploma Mills: the Automation of Higher Education - David F. Noble, First Monday, Vol.3 No.1 - January 5th. 1998..

Diversity Web - Interactive research hub for higher education. Also offers the Diversity Digest, a Quarterly newsletter published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities

Dynamic Syllabi for American Studies - American Studies Crossroads Project, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC)

eCollegebid - "Where you bid for a college education." (See October 5th articleWeb site gets colleges bidding for students in the San Jose Mercury News.)

Educaid - "Comprehensive information about education loans and other aspects of financial aid for high school students, guidance counselors, and college financial aid administrators" from First Union.

Edu.com - This useful U.S. News & World Report site features annual rankings of 1,400 American colleges, a searchable database with "up-to-date admission, academic and financial aid information", a College Comparison Worksheet and a Career Center. The 2001 College Rankings is an excellent resource and the College Search option allows you to "to find schools according to the following criteria: location, distance from home, cost, size, selectivity, major, student/faculty ratio, academic programs, single sex/coed, religious affiliation, setting, diversity, ranking, extracurriculars, and sports."

Education Funding - Prudential site allows you to calculate the cost of your child's college education.

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) - National Library of Education

Educational Testing Service (ETS)

EDUCAUSE - "International, nonprofit association whose mission is to help shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management." Provides access to full-text articles of current and past issues of EDUCAUSE Review and EDUCAUSE Quarterly (in pdf format). Offers a Guide to Evaluating Information Technology on Campus.

Embark.com - Site's goal is to "streamline the higher education admissions process for all involved parties, from students of all ages to university administrators and high school guidance counselors." Offers online storage for applications in progress (free registration).

Enseignement supérieur : le défi des classements - Report [in French only] for the French Senate by Joël Bourdin, 2 juillet 2008. See France challenges world university ranking (http://www.euractiv.com, News, 18 July 2008) The report "proposed developing a new European university ranking system to counter the powerful Shanghai world ranking, which is said to favour English-language institutions."

ERIC: Education Resources Information Center - "ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES)." A search for honors programs, for example, retrieves over 150 results.

Europa World of Learning ($) - A subscription database of colleges, univesities, libraries and museums around the world, it is also available in print form.

FAFSA on the Web - U.S. Department of Education's Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). For which you'll also need the Title IV School Code Search. Another helpful page is the FAFSA page is provided by the Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education which allows you to print the form (requires Adobe Acrobat).

FastWEB - Search service for financial aid and scholarships.

FinAid: The Financial Aid Information Page - National Association of Financial Aid Administrators. They have information on Scholarships for Average Students.

Fishnet College Guide

France - Higher education in France has been the subject of two recent articles: Elite French Schools Block The Poor's Path to Power, by Craig S. Smith, New York Times, December 18, 2005 (pg. 1.8) and Is Elite School France's Failing? by John Carreyrou, Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2006 (pg. A13). The grandes ecoles are France's premier institutions of higher education and two of the most prestigious are the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Institut d'études politiques de Paris), better known as Sciences Po, and the French National School of Public Administration (Ecole Nationale d'Administration). "Graduates of ENA are referred to as enarques and form a quasicaste, known as the enarchy, that controls the levers of the French state." (Carreyrou)

FREIDA - Acronymn for Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database, this database contains "information on approximately 7,500 graduate medical education programs that are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), as well as on 200 combined specialty programs. By defining and prioritizing various selection criteria, you can select several programs or focus on a specific program for viewing." (American Medical Association.)

FreSch! - Scholarship database allows you to search over 1775 sources.

From PhD to Employment - "Information on matters which young PhDs need to be aware of during their transition from researching their doctoral theses to employment, whether in the academic or private sector." Published by the Association Bernard Gregory, Fedora (European Forum for Academic Guidance) and the Employment Service of the Denis Diderot University (Paris 7).

Fulbright Program - U.S. State Department

Fulbright Web

Funding Your Education - U.S. Department of Education

Gate Education Loans

Graduate Management Admission Council - "Association of leading graduate business schools around the world" and "owner and administrator of the GMAT® exam." Provides access to the GMAC Member Directory (with free registration).

Graduate School Guide - Doctoral, Masters & professional degree programs.

Graduate School Rankings - U..S. News & World Report.

GRE Online

GreekPages.com - Fraternity and sorority website.

Harvard Crimson Online - Provides the same articles featured in its print counterpart, plus an interactive calendar of events, student forums, and selected links to other regional and world information. There is also an archive to back issues from June 1997 onward.

Harvard National Model United Nations

Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention

Higher Education in France - Higher education in France has been the subject of two recent articles: Elite French Schools Block The Poor's Path to Power, by Craig S. Smith, New York Times, December 18, 2005 (pg. 1.8) and Is Elite School France's Failing? by John Carreyrou, Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2006 (pg. A13). The grandes ecoles are France's premier institutions of higher education and two of the most prestigious are the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Institut d'études politiques de Paris), better known as Sciences Po, and the French National School of Public Administration (Ecole Nationale d'Administration). "Graduates of ENA are referred to as enarques and form a quasicaste, known as the enarchy, that controls the levers of the French state." (Carreyrou)

Higher Education in the Nordic Countries

Higher Education Services Corporation - Provides students and families with access to financial aid in New York State. Paying for College is a comprehensive list of state, federal and private grants, loans and scholarships, including the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) which provides a list of New York school codes and a downloadable TAP Change form.

Hillel: Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

Information for Financial Aid Professionals - "An electronic library for financial aid professionals containing publications, regulations, and guidance regarding the administration of the Title IV Federal Student Financial Aid Programs."

HockeyPoint: Daily Internet Newsletter on Women's College Field Hockey

Institute of International Education - Listings of over 4,000 academic year or short-term study abroad programs. Has information on the IEE Passport and programs administered by IEE. (With site index.)

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System - "Institutional-level data that can be used to describe trends in higher education at the institutional, state and/or national levels."

ILRG: Law School Information Index - Internet Legal Research Group

Intercollegiate Tennis Association

International Association of Universities (IAU) - Has a Member Organisations List

JobWeb - National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation - The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletic issues Reports on college sports, including A Call to Action: Reconnecting College Sports and Higher Education released in June 2001 (in pdf format).

Kaplan Educational Centers

Kiplinger.com: Managing College - In their 100 Best Values in Public Colleges you can sort the schools by overall rank, cost, quality measures or financial aid measures.

Law School Admission Council - Official LSAT site

Loans

Federal Direct Subsidized Loan

Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loan

Federal Direct PLUS Program

MEFA Loan - Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority

MEFA Loan with Deferment Option

Korean American Scholarship Foundation

LevelEdge - Sports recruiting management portal for coaches, recruiters, student-athletes and their parents founded by Lisa Henderson.

List of Defaulted Borrowers - Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) site names doctors who have defaulted on their student loans. Lists by amount due, discipline, name, school or state.

Macleans Rankings - Canada

MSN Update: Going to College

Maclean's 1998 Universitiy Rankings: Measuring Excellence - Guide to Canadian colleges and universities with directory.

MentorNet - Subtitled the National Electronic Industrial Mentoring Network for Women in Engineering and Science, this nonprofit organization pairs women studying science and engineering with with professional scientists and engineers working in industry.

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching - "Free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students in higher education. With a continually growing collection of online learning materials, peer reviews and assignments, MERLOT helps faculty enhance instruction."

Middle States Commission on Higher Education - Has an Institution Directory

Minority On Line Information System (MOLIS)

NAFSA: Association of International Educators

National Association of College Admission Counseling -Their OnlineCollegeFair will offer 10 online virtual College Fairs from October to April, with real-time chats with college admission officials.

National Association of College Stores

National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF) - "Follows a cohort of first-time freshman at selective colleges and universities through their college careers." Housed in the Office of Population Research, Princeton University and funded by the Mellon Foundation. Registration is required to download data.

NPR - National Public Radio

Universities Look to Cast Off Party Image - Talk of the Nation, September 8, 2004 (on Best Party Schools).

'Morning Edition' Returns: Best Party Schools - Morning Edition, August 17, 2004

National Science Foundation: Division of Science Resources Statistics

National Teaching and Learning Forum - With site map, Teaching and Learning Grant Opportunities, Library and Interactive Faculty Salary Database with Salaries and Tenure of Full-time Instructional Faculty, 1996-97.

NCAA Online! - National Collegiate Athletic Association

Nellie Mae's Loan Link

New York's College Savings Program

New York State Education Department Office of Higher Education - With information on Colleges and Universities in New York State.

News Directory: College Locator

OnlineCollegeFair -10 online virtual College Fairs will be held, from October to April, with real-time chats with college admission officials. Sponsored by the National Association of College Admission Counseling.

Overseas School Codes - Indiana University Office of Admissions

New York Times: College - Updated daily, this special section provides free access to New York Times articles (no registration required) of interest to college students and faculty. The pull-down menu allows you to browse by subject. You can search the archive for over 500,000 articles dating back to January 1, 1996. Articles from the last 7 days are free, as are all reviews back to 1996.

Oak Ridge Associated Universities - "ORAU promotes collaborative partnerships with universities, federal laboratories, and industry for the benefit of our 86 member institutions." With Membership List alphabetical and by state.

Off the Beaten Path - Article by Randal C. Archibold, New York Times, July 30, 2006. Archibold names twenty lesser-known U.S. colleges and universities "on equal or near-equal footing with brand-name universities." The article is not available at the New York Times site (unless you want to pay $4.95 for it), but you can find the full-text of the article at the websites of Southern Oregon University and Whitman College. "The following colleges, compiled with help from a dozen higher education experts and couselors, stress undergraduate teaching, have established or rising scholarship, even if they come up short on standardized text scores, and are alternatives to the usual suspects."

Carleton College - Northfield, Minnesota

College of Wooster - Wooster, Ohio

Colorado College - Colorado Springs, Colorado

Cornell College - Mount Vernon, Iowa

Earlham College - Richmond, Indiana

Evergreen State College - Olympia, Washington

Grinnel College - Grinnell, Iowa

Kalamazoo College - Kalamazoo, Michigan

Kenyon College - Gambier, Ohio

Macalester College - St. Paul, Minnesota

Miami University - Oxford, Ohio

Mills College - Oakland, California

Pitzer College - Claremont, California

Santa Clara University - Santa Clara, California

Southern Oregon University - Ashland, Oregon

SUNY Geneseo - Geneseo, New York

Union College - Schenectady, New York

University of Oklahoma - Norman, Oklahoma

Wheaton College - Norton, Massachusetts

Whitman College - Walla Walla, Washington

Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) - With list of universitites

Peterson's Education Center - Includes searchable sections on private schools, undergraduate and graduate study, studying abroad, distance learning and summer programs for kids. Their CollegeQuest Gateway allows students to search for schools and apply online (free registration).

PhinisheD - "Discussion and support group for people who cannot seem to finish their dissertations or theses."

Phonebook Gateway - Over 300 phonebook servers registered on the master list of servers maintained at Northwestern University by John Norstad.

Posse Foundation - Founded by Deborah Bieh, a MacArthur Fellow in 2007, the program "identifies, recruits, and trains incredible youth leaders from urban public high schools and sends these groups as "Posses" to top colleges and universities in this country."

Preparing Your Child for College - Resource Book for Parents, 1996-1997 edition, U.S. Department of Education

Princeton Review - Provides a list of the Best 361 Colleges Rankings for 2007 by name, and by state.

Private Colleges & Universities

Project EASI - Financial Aid information from the U. S. Department of Education.

QuestBridge - "Non-profit program that links bright, motivated low-income students with educational and scholarship opportunities at some of the nation's best colleges." See Matching Top Colleges, Low-Income Students by Jim Carlton, Wall Street Journal, November 15, 2007.

Radio-Locator - Find radio station by format, location, call letters.

Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Continuity and Change - 1995 National Research Council report rates 41 graduate programs.

Rhodes Scholarships - Office of the American Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust provides scholarship information, regulations, applications, university representatives, a bulletin board and biographical information on the past three years of scholars.

Sallie Mae - Student Loan Marketing Association; information on scholarships, grants and student loans

Sallie Mae Financial Aid Calculators

Savingforcollege - Provides information on the Qualified Tuition Program (529 plan).

Secrets of the SAT - Frontline.

Security on Campus - Non-profit organization devoted to safer college and university campuses for students. Has a useful collection of links to College and University Campus Crime Statistics and to College and University Campus Police Web Sites. (See also Campus Crime and Security at Postsecondary Education Intstitutions and International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.)

State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGS) - Provides a section on Student Programs and links to state PIRGS.

Stop the madness: Admissions officers at top-rated colleges prescribe time out for burnout - Maura Kelly, Salon, Dec. 15, 2000.

Street & Smith's College Lacrosse

Student Aid Alliance - Coalition of 58 organizations representing students and colleges and universities.

Student Guide: Financial Aid from the U.S. Department of Education - Comprehensive resource on student financial aid covers the Department's major aid programs, including Pell Grants, Stafford Loans, and PLUS Loans (Loans for Parents).

Student Monitor - Market research on the college student market.

Students.gov - Mission of this site is "to give college students, college-bound students, and their families easy access to the information and services they need from the U.S. Government and selected non-government web sites."

Student Leader - "The magazine for America's most outstanding students"

Students.Gov - Student gateway to the U.S. government.

Textbooks

Amazon.com

Bigwords

Cheapbooks

eCampus

efollet

Textbooks.com - Division of Barnes & Noble

VarsityBooks

SUNY Employment

T. Rowe Price College Investment Calculator

Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund - With links to Member Schools.

Title IV School Code Search - Needed for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

TOEFL Online - Official Web site for Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) programs and services. (Developed by Educational Testing Service.)

Top Business Schools - Provides links to the home pages of all schools in the annual Business Week and U.S. News & World Report Top 25 rankings of U.S. business schools. (Provided by Baker Library, Harvard Business School.)

Tuition-Free - The following schools are tuition-free (also known as tuition-paid, or full-tuition scholarship):

Berea College - Berea, Kentucky

College of the Ozarks - Point Lookout, Missouri. Listen to Tuition-Free College Puts Students to Work, Greg Allen, All Things Considered, November 10, 2003 (National Public Radio).

Cooper Union - New York City. Architecture, art and engineering.

Deep Springs College - Two-year institution for men in Dyer, Nevada.

Webb Institute - Glen Cove, New York. Maritime engineering.

United States Military Academy - West Point, New York

United States Air Force Academy - Located 14 miles north of Colorado Springs, Colorado

United States Naval Academy - Annapolis, Maryland Post-Graduate

F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine - Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland. See Exploring Military Physician Careers, by Bonnie Darves, New England Journal of Medicine, September 2002.

Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies - Pre-professional

2005 Law School Rankings - Top-Law-Schools.com

Universities Worldwide - Links to 5065 Universities in 147 countries compiled by Klaus Förster, Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck.

University Search Page - American Historical Review provides links to campus directory search engines.

U-Wire - Campus news (includes Sports, Editorials, Research and Arts & Culture.) Provides links to campus newspaper homepages.

United Negro College Fund

United University Professions (UUP) - Union representing academic and professional faculty on 29 SUNY campuses.

University Links - Schools listed by state and type.

University of Scranton Digital Yearbook Collection - "Weinberg Memorial Library presents a digital collection of University of Scranton Yearbooks, published between 1916 and 2007. This 74 volume collection contains almost 20,000 pages and depicts the changing student body of the University of Scranton and its predecessor, St. Thomas College."

University Pages - Greg Davis's directory of colleges and universities in the U.S.

U.S. News & World Report 2001 College Rankings

United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs - Has information for International Students who wish to study in the U.S. as well as for U.S. Students who wish to travel abroad.

William D. Ford Federal Direct Loans - U.S. Department of Education

Wired Colleges 2001: the Hot 200 - Yahoo! Internet Life provides rankings for the top wired colleges. (See also Controversial 'Most Wired' List Includes Colleges That Declined to Participate, Chronicle of Higher Education, September 13, 2001.)

World Lecture Hall - Free online course materials from around the world. Maintained by the Center for Instructional Technologies, a unit of the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment at the University of Texas at Austin.

World University Rankings (2007) - Times Higher Education

Yale Daily News - The paper is searchable and provides access to two sets of archives: October 1997 to the present and February 1995 to November 1998.

Yûksek Ôgretim Kurulu - Higher Education Council of Turkey. Information on Üniversiteler