EDUCATION : HIGHER
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Colorado Information
(Statewide effort to improve college access. Resources for students, parents, & counselors to plan, apply & pay for college)
Colorado Department of Higher Education
(Not-for-profit division of the Colorado Department of Higher Education providing expert information, simple planning tools, scholarships, savings plans, & low-cost student and parent loans)
Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE)
(Develops long-range plans for state's higher education system)
Colorado Community College System (CCCS)
(CCCS is the state's largest system of higher education with career & academic programs in 13 community colleges & programs in post-secondary institutions & school districts)
Federal Information
American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
(AACC promotes the goals of community colleges with research & statistics)
(SAT preparation assistance)
College Savings Plans Network (CSPN)
(Clearinghouse on college savings programs & 529 plans)
Education Commission of the States (ECS)
Education Issues: Postsecondary education
Family Federal Education Loan Program (FFEL)
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
National Center for Public Policy & Higher Education
(Analyses of state & federal policies)
(Comparative state data on higher education issues)
(Nation's leading provider of student loans & administrator of college savings plans)
State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO)
(Information on higher education issues & financial data)
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE)
(Regional organization of 15 western states promoting interstate cooperation & resources sharing among higher education systems of the West)
Higher Education Directories
(U.S. Department of Education information on preparing for higher education, including financial aid options. Search for colleges by different criteria)
College Scholarships, Colleges, & Online Degrees
Distance Learning: Colleges & Universities With Distance Education Programs
(Organized by state or province; search by institution name, program, or zip code)
EdRef College Search Directory
(Resources on colleges, universities & higher education issues)
Schools, Colleges, & Libraries
(National Center for Education Statistics database searchable by institution name, city, or zip code with variety of statistics for each institution)
University & College Accountability Network (U-CAN)
(Comparable data for private colleges & universities with links to campus information)
(Search for colleges by state, degree programs, & college name. Includes directory of online colleges & occupations guide)
Additional Resources
(Higher education rankings from Education & Social Science Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
College Insight: Economic Diversity of Colleges
(Campus-level data on student income, race, ethnicity, & student loan usage)
(Current Population Survey (CPS) annual national data)
(Center for Higher Education & Educational Finance national database of tax support for higher education)
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education
(Information on federal higher education programs & student aid)
OPE Campus Security Statistics
(U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education information on reported criminal offenses for over 6000 U.S.colleges & universities)
U.S. News & World Report College Rankings
