Although daily life has recently shifted, students and parents are still looking for ways to decide what college would be right for them. This may seem difficult for a lot of your students to pick which colleges they want to attend since it isn’t advisable that they go visit them in person. However, there is a wealth of online tools that you can provide them with to help them make an educated decision about what would be a best fit for them. Besides our college rating tool, students can also check out the following resources:
Student Loan Hero’s 10 Free Search Tools to Find Your Dream School
If you’re looking for a good place to start this is it. Student Loan Hero has compiled multiple different search engines that will let you compare and contrast all the schools that you’re considering. They’ve collected all of these websites in one place and have given you helpful little explainers to let you know which ones are best for finding what.
U.S. New’s 2020 Best Value Colleges
As always and maybe now more than ever, a school’s price tag is unavoidably important. U.S. News has put together a metric to show you which colleges are going to give you the best bang for your buck. The calculation they use takes into account a school’s academic quality, and the 2018-2019 net cost of attendance for a student who received the average level of need-based financial aid. The higher the quality of the program and the lower the cost, the better the deal.
College Raptor’s 2020 Best Colleges Rankings
College Raptor does a great job of looking at multiple different factors when assessing a school and then weighting them to come up with a comprehensive rating. Additionally, they separate the colleges into different categories depending on what size school you’re looking for or what you want to specialize them. This allows you to get a lot of great information when you’re comparing schools against each other.