Directories Books

A must have for anyone who wants to go to a college or conservatory for creative majors. If your counseling department at your high school does not have this book, you need to buy it yourself.

Provides enrollment facts, degrees offered, application procedures, website addresses, contacts, expenses, student profiles, and is especially useful in addressing whether freshman are admitted directly into the professional programs or if they must pay their dues to get in.

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this is one of the best guides I have found that has all of the price values on all of the different items that I collect. It is very easy to use and find the different values you would need to keep your collection up to date on its true value. A great 5 star rating...

32nd edition, 2005, 6 volumes, almost 6000 pages total.

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Vol. 1: Narrative Descriptions
Vol. 2: Tabular Data
Vol. 3: Degrees Offered by College and Subject
Vol. 4: Occupational Education
Vol. 5: Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants, and Loans
Vol. 6: Distance Learning Programs

After a college bound student has decided on a major to pursue in college, this resource should be used to find the colleges and universities, which offer the degree of interest. Schools are listed by state under each major. Degrees (certificates to doctorates) available in that major at each institution are also noted.

Its very cool for me to know more about how to apply a university in US,as a international student from Hk,I really feel dizzy to seach out a suitable collge that I should offer to.This book can give me some hints to seaching out the right colleges.I can seach it out by the tutions,cities & the toefl score.You should buy it if you don't want the angency office lie you!

Students, teachers, counselors, researchers and lifelong learners will reap the bounty of Earl Jackson Jr.'s "College Connections Web Directory 1997," a taut cyberguide and reference directory that navigates readers through the formidable array of educational resources and job training sites available on the Web. Students will especially enjoy the accompanying CD-ROM, which contains, besides Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, College Link, the jazzy college application software, which streamlines the application process by customizing admission forms to the colleges of your choice. Included here as well is Jackson's own invention, Detective Fiction, an interesting online course that showcases the potential of the Web for classroom use. "College Connections Web Directory 1997" is a magna cum laude, online look at the world of higher education.

With so much disinformation regarding nontraditional schools offering higher degrees, it's comforting to read a book based in both reality and calmness. No high sales pitch here, just good advice regarding a lot of good, nontraditional schools and programs. Highly recommended.

This book is a must if you are a counselor or an aspiring student. Do not waste hours googling the net, just buy this book, it is worth the investment. I am considering going back to school for a second career and this book is helping me find the sites that I need to visit. I am not wasting valuable time searching for those sites. I especially like the Quick Guide at the start of the book because it is sorted by subject and my interests are varied.

The book is also comprehensive, from financial aid to professional associations. There is even information about campus security and safety! And because it is a guide to web sites, the information gained through this book will always be up to date.

The book is well organized and gets you to your destination quickly. It starts with the Quick Guide to Resources which you will use to find the site you're looking for and then you look it up in the guide which starts at page 35. The guide lists the name and web address of the site, gives a short description and evaluates the 'Best Points' about it. The 'What You Should Know' section gives additional information such as if access is restricted to registered users or if the site is fee-based.

The book also lists Web Resources for professional and counselor associations and organizations.

The glossary is extensive and the Career Title Index is extremely valuable to me. The Web Site Index makes it very simple to find a listing when you just want to read their review of a paticular site.

When I am done with my copy I am giving it to my neighbor's daughter who is finishing high school.

Nearly three hundred original college lists, all compiled by the staff of The Princeton Review, lists almost any criteria a college applicant or parent might find important, from outstanding academic programs by major to schools with the highest percentages of students receiving financial aid, academic opportunities outside the classroom, and more. Any collection, whether it be high school or public lending library, catering to college-bound patrons needs this.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Whoa! I really don't agree with that lone review (currently). I wonder if the person even read the book? Helping people is not right wing, only left wing? There are a myriad of community service projects that these colleges support and finance. This book is very thorough in giving many examples of the types of projects and support available. Here are a few off-hand. Preparing meals and giving them to poor people, teaching children, helping with voter registration, fixing environmental toxicity in village's water supply, building houses in Honduras during spring break.