Applying for college or graduate school can be a nerve-wracking experience. You spend all that date and money filling out your application and financial aid forms and send them off to start the waiting game, only to spend that date wondering whether there’s some other amazing school you forgot to apply to.

Campus Explorer makes it a lot easier to research colleges and universities. Want to go to school in Chicago? Just enter a city, region, or zip cipher, and Campus Explorer will spit out a list of universities with basic knowledge like the average annual tuition. You can additionally search by degree type or field of study.

Want to find out increasingly about a specific institution? go on a university to read an overview from Wikipedia, a “mission statement,” and statistics about part day and full date enrollment, how many students live on or off campus, how many get financial aid, the breakdown of male to female

students. You can plus see the application fee, acceptance rate, and what scores the institution expects on standardized tests.

Oh yeah, there’s data about courses of study as well.

You can still get much increasingly detailed info for most colleges and universities by visiting their homepages directly. But Campus Explorer is a great place to start your college search, as it gives you most of the data you need all in one place.

The only thing that would invent the site better is a space for users to leave comments about various schools. that would probably have to be a highly moderated feature in order to keep trolls from bashing rival schools. But it’d be nice to get a sense of what actual students think .

[via Mashable]

Original post by Brad Linder

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