Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the web

Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York

Directories: Colleges & Universities

Universities Worldwide - has links to 7445 Universities in 184 countries

See Also: College and University

Academic Directory - Search the UK Academic Internet for university, college or school.
Agence universitaire de la francophonie (AUF) - Comprised of 616 member institutions in 70 countries. You can search for members by region or country or view the entire list
American Association of Community Colleges - Has a list of Member Colleges by State
American Council on Education - Has a Members and Associates Directory.
American Indian Higher Education Consortium - Provides links to Tribal Colleges. See also Yahoo: American Indian Tribal Colleges and Lisa Mitten's Tribal Colleges, Native Studies Programs, and Indian Education.
American Universities - Mike Conlon's directory is alphabetical by name of school
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.)
L'Association des universités de la francophonie canadienne
Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior Mexico's National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education
Association of Arab Universities
Association of African Universities - With links to Members in Good Standing
Association of American Colleges & Universities - With Member List
Association of American Law Schools - With links to Member Schools
Association of American Medical Colleges - With directory of Medical Schools
Association of American Universities - "An association of 62 leading research universities in the United States and Canada."
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) - You can Search for Members or browse by name, state or region.
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada - Has a Directory of Canadian Universities Database
Association of Universities of Asia and Pacific
Association of Commonwealth Universities - "500 universities drawn from the Commonwealth countries of Africa and Asia, Australasia and the South Pacific, Canada and the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, Cyprus and Malta."
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada - Has a Directory of Canadian Universities
Best Business Schools - Special Report by Christina Settimi and Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes, August 16, 2007.
Bschool.com - "Biennial survey and alternative ranking of business schools". The mission is "to spotlight innovative full-time MBA programs that are integrating issues of social and environmental stewardship into curricula and research.."
Beyond Grey Pinstripes - "Research survey and alternative ranking of business schools that spotlights innovative full-time MBA programs..."
Bibliothèques médicales francophones - Links to medical schools in French-speaking countries assembled by the Bibliothèque médicale, CHU de Rouen
Braintrack University Index - Over 5500 links to higher educational institutions in 161 countries.
California Community Colleges - With links to community colleges.
Campus Newspapers on the Internet - Hosted and maintained by The Daily Beacon at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Canadian Education on the Web - Maintained by Marian Press, Coordinator of Reference and Information Technology in the OISE/UT Library, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Has links to Canadian Universities and Colleges and Community Colleges.
Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials - Has a Directory of Universities, Colleges and Schools in Canada<./A>
Canadian Universities | Universites 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.
Christian Colleges and Universities - ICNet - Institute for Christian Leadership. (Note: could not access 17 April 2001)
College and University Home Pages - Christina DeMello's alphabetical and geographical listing and is international in scope but it has not been updated in several years.
College News Online - Has links to about 400 campus newspapers and a clickable map.
College Nicknames - Adam Joshua Smargon
College Opportunities On-Line (COOL) - Links to over 9,000 colleges and universities in the United States, searchable by location, program, or degree offerings. (Provided by the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education.)
College Board Online
Collegiate Directories - National Directory of College Athletics.
Colorado Community College System - With map and links to community colleges.
Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools - Has a Membership Directory
Community College Web - Maricopa Community College District has compiled this searchable index of links to 1207 community college web sites.
Conferenza dei Rettori delle Universita Italiane - Italian Rectors' Conference
Conférence des Grandes Ecoles - Institutions of higher education in France. With list of members
Conferencia de Rectores de la Universidades Españolas (CRUE) - Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities.
Connecticut (CT) Community Colleges
Council for Higher Education Accreditation Their Database of Institutions and Programs Accredited by Recognized United States Accrediting Organizations "lists approximately 7,000 degree-granting and non-degree-granting institutions and over 17,000 programs that are accredited by United States accrediting organizations that have been recognized either by CHEA or by the United States Department of Education (USDE) or both."
Council of Independent Colleges - With list of Members and Affiliates.
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) - "Central, self-governing research funding organisation that promotes research at universities and other publicly financed research institutions in Germany." There are lists of: Graduate Schools, Clusters of Excellence, Collaborative Research Centres, DFG Research Centres, Priority Programmes, Research Units, Research Training Groups, and Clinical Research Units.
Directory of Canadian Universities - Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and SchoolNet
.edu Whois Look up
L'enseignement en Communauté française de Belgique - Educational institutions in Belgium.
European University Association - Has a Members Directory - There's also a Map Based Search. "As of 1 April 2006, EUA has 777 members in 45 countries across Europe."
Eurydice - "The information network on education in Europe." With information on members.
Federation of Universities of the Islamic World
Gradschools.com - Directory of graduate programs, searchable by subject, has 51,197 graduate program listings.
Great Lakes Colleges Association
HERO: Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the United Kingdom - Official gateway to universities, colleges and research organisations in the UK.
Higher Education in the Nordic Countries - Includes a directory of universities in Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Åland Islands.
Higher Education South Africa - With links to member institutions
Hillel Campus Profiles - Jewish campus organization provides campus profiles (look under "Quick Clicks"). (Note: could not access 17 April 2001)
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU)
HRK [Hochschulrektorenkonferenz] - Association of universities and other higher educations instututions in Germany.
Illinois Community College Board - With links to community colleges.
International Association of Universities - UNESCO-based world-wide association of universities. Has a Member Organisations List
Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE)
Islam Research Directory - Has information on and links to over 250 Universities.
Kentucky Community and Technical College System
Law School Admission Council - With Law School Links
Libweb: Library Servers via WWW - Thomas Dowling's list is updated daily and currently lists over 2000 pages from libraries in over 70 countries.
LIS Schools on the Net - Library and information science schools throughout the world. (Last Updated 25 September 1998)
Louisiana Community and Technical College System
Maine Community College System
Medical Schools of the U.S. and Canada - Association of American Medical Colleges
Middle States Commission on Higher Education - Has an Institution Directory
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) - Has links to members.
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) - Has links to members.
Nevada System of Higher Education
NewsDirectory: College Locator
NOD - Dutch Research Database - Lists all Dutch universities and research institutes.
North Carolina Community College System - With map and links to 58 community colleges.
Die Österreichische Rektorenkonferenz - Standing Conference of Austrian Rectors
Phonebook Gateway - Over 300 phonebook servers registered on the master list of servers maintained at Northwestern University by John Norstad.
Poland's Institutions of Higher Education - Links to Polish universities provided by InfoPoland at the University of Buffalo.
Quebec Ministry of Education (Ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport) - Provides information on Studying in Quebec
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia - Provides a list of Virginia Colleges.
SUNY Campuses
Turkish Universities - Council of Higher Education of the Republic of Turkey. Also has list in in English.
UK Campus Information Services
Universities.com - Search over 10,000 colleges and universities.
Universities Worldwide - Klaus Förster, Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck, has assembled "links to 7445 Universities in 184 countries."
University Links - Schools listed by state and type
University Pages - Greg Davis's directory of colleges and universities in the U.S.
University Search Page - American Historical Review provides links to campus directory search engines.
U.S. News & World Report College Rankings
Virginia Community College System - With links to VCCS College Web Sites
Web Sites at Canadian Universities - Assembled by Dale Stevens for Canadian Association of University Research Administrators (CAURA).
Web U.S. Higher Education - Links to Web servers at universities and community colleges in the U.S.
Yahoo! - Colleges & Universities - Also has a sections for Historically Black Colleges and American Indian Tribal Colleges.

Last updated 1 March 2008