College Search Websites: College Results Online

A rolled diploma tied with a red ribbon rests on top of various official documents, beside the screen displaying college results online.

Graduation DiplomaThe Education Trust’s College Results Online website is based on the Integrated Postsecondary Education System (IPEDS) which is the same data used by the College Navigator reviewed last week. Obviously the differences between the two sites will be presentation, access, and selection of the data available.

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College Search Websites Reviews: Big Future by the College Board

A young boy in a striped shirt stands in tall grass, looking through binoculars, dreaming of a big future.

(You can see an updated review of Big Future here.) Boy looking through binoculars to review Big Future college search websiteBig Future is the college search website by the College Board. Since the College Board is the source of all things SAT, you would expect it have a pretty good college search function. It is also a member of the Common Data Set consortium which means it has access to data that isn’t readily available to other websites.

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College Search Websites: Introduction

A person in a blue shirt points at multiple floating webpages displayed on screens in front of them, depicting various website designs and layouts for college search websites.

Man looking at web pagesIf you were to visit the major college search websites, you would conclude that people have just a few considerations when choosing a college. Based on the search options common to eight of the most popular websites, students want to be able to pick a college based on its location, the location’s setting, size, tuition, selectivity, test scores, majors, whether it’s a community college or four-year institution,  and if it’s public or private.

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