Nolan Catholic College Information

Academic360.com - Meta-collection of Internet resources that have been gathered for the academic job hunter by Dan Knauft, University of Texas at Austin. (Formerly known as Jobs in Higher Education.)
ACT Home Page - "ACT Assessment, or "A-C-T" as it is commonly called, is a national college admission examination." Site highlights include College Codes, Sample Test Questions, and Test Taking Strategies.
AdmissionsOffice.com - Site for college-bound high school juniors and seniors, and their parents
Amazon.com - There are a number of college guides available for purchase. Some titles to consider include the Insider's Guide to the Colleges, edited by the Yale Daily News, Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, College Handbook, Fiske Guide to Colleges, Best 331 Colleges, Discounts and Deals at the Nation's 360 Best Colleges, Peterson's 4 Year Colleges 2000, and Barron's Best Buys in College Education.
American Association of Community Colleges
American Association of University Professors (AAUP) - Site hightlights include Press Releases, Chapters and State Conferences.
American Field Service - "International, voluntary, non-governmental, non-profit organization that provides intercultural learning opportunities to help people develop the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to create a more just and peaceful 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.
America's Most Wired Colleges - Yahoo! Internet Life provides rankings for the top wired colleges. There are also sections on online plagiarism, distance learning and study resources.
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 Top Universities 2000 - Ranking by school & country from Asiaweek.
Association for Institutional Research - Has a section of Internet Resources for Institutional Research
Association of American Colleges & Universities
Association of American Medical Colleges - With directory of Medical Schools
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: NCAA
Best Business Schools - Business Week
Binge Drinking on Campus - Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention
Black Issues in Higher Education
CampusSafety.org - Security On Campus is is "the only national, non-profit organization geared specifically and exclusively to the prevention of college and university campus violence and other crimes." Has a useful collection of links to College and University Campus Crime Statistics.
CampusTours - Virtual campus tours of U.S. colleges & universities.
Canadian Universities/Universites Canadiennes - Chris Redmond, University of Waterloo.
Catholic College Search - National Catholic College Admission Association.
Cavalier Daily Online - University of Virginia paper has Archives back to 1996.
Center For All Collegiate Information - Aphco International
Chronicle of Higher Education - Academe Today - There's also a Information Technology section.
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 Campus Police Web Sites - Part of the Security On Campus site. See also Campus Crime and Security at Postsecondary Education Intstitutions and International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.
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 Fight Songs Homepage - Trevor D. Barnes
College is Possible: American Council on Education - Coalition of America's Colleges and Universities.
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 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.
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.
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.
Council for International Exchange of Scholars - Fulbright Senior Scholar Program
The Dartmouth - America's oldest college newspaper began publication in 1799.
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.
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 site provides links to all ERIC sites and an ERIC Database Chart which provides three access points to the ERIC database. The Clearinghouse on Higher Education has extensive links to other resources, a New & Noteworthy section, and provides information on the ASHE-ERIC Report Series, "the most peer-reviewed and widely disseminated monograph series on higher 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).
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
Fathom - "First interactive knowledge site" is an online partnership with Columbia University, the York Public Library, the British Library, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Cambridge University Press, RAND, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Natural History Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Science Museum.
FinAid: The Financial Aid Information Page - National Association of Financial Aid Administrators
Find A Christian College - To encourage students of all ages and their parents to explore the prospects and advantages of Christian Higher Education.
Fishnet College Guide
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.
Fulbright Web
Funding Your Education - U.S. Department of Education
Gate Education Loans
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.
Higher Education in the Nordic Countries
Hillel: Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
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."
Intercollegiate Tennis Association
JobWeb - National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)
Kaplan Educational Centers
Law School Admission Council - Official LSAT site
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.
MSN Update: Going to College
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.
Minority On Line Information System (MOLIS)
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 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
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.
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.
Preparing Your Child for College - Resource Book for Parents, 1996-1997 edition, U.S. Department of Education
Princeton Review
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
Secrets of the SAT - Frontline.
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 2000-2001 - Comprehensive resource on student financial aid from the U.S. Department of Education. It covers the Department's major aid programs, including Pell Grants, Stafford Loans, and PLUS Loans (Loans for Parents).
Student Leader - "The magazine for America's most outstanding students"
Texas Tomorrow Fund - The Texas Tomorrow Fund is a fully guaranteed prepaid tuition program.
Textbooks.com - Buy new and used textbooks online, with buyback program. (Division of Barnes & Noble.) Other textbook sites include Bigwords, eCampus, efollet and VarsityBooks.
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.)
Tuck B-Schools Page - List of Business Schools maintained by the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.
Universities Worldwide - Links to 5065 Universities in 147 countries compiled by Klaus F�rster, 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
University Links - Schools listed by state and type
University Pages - Greg Davis's directory of colleges and universities in the U.S.
U.S. News & World Report 2001 College Rankings
William D. Ford Federal Direct Loans - U.S. Department of 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.
Yahoo: Colleges and Universities - Links to American colleges and universities.