College Navigator is a free consumer information tool designed to help students, parents, high school counselors, and others get information about nearly 7,000 postsecondary institutions in the United States. It provides a wide range of information -- such as programs offered, retention and graduation rates, prices, aid available, degrees awarded, campus safety, athletics, and accreditation -- in a user-friendly tool. College Navigator allows users to:

Search

• Search by programs offered, degrees offered, institution type, price, selectivity, distance from home, school size, institutional mission (historically black colleges and universities, single-sex), extended learning opportunities for adults (weekend and evening degree programs), and intercollegiate athletics programs offered.
• Modify or change their search from anywhere within the website.
• Use a simple and intuitive way of selecting keywords to search among programs at a general level (communications, journalism, and related programs), drill down through a menu to a moderate level of detail, and identify highly specific courses of study (health communication).

Compare

• Make comparisons of up to four institutions in a printer-friendly format, and maintain a list of favorite institutions from different searches

Save

• Save their sessions and receive an email with a link taking them back to where they left off.

Export

• Export search results to easily-used formats, such as Excel.

The College Navigator was developed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) within the Institute of Education Sciences. Money Magazine recently named it as one of the magazine's top 28 websites and one of the best places to start a college search. On average, the search tool receives 30,000 visitors a day.

Visit the Spanish language version of the College Navigator: https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?md=1

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