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College and Career Sites
Occupational Hand Book is a good starting point to figure out what it takes to enter into careers and what the projections are for the number of jobs that may be available in that career.
Guide to Landing a Nursing Job this guide covers career preparation, outlook, networking, and more.
College Results Provides information about college that can help in making a decision regarding the right college for you.
Learn.org helps education seekers save time and money on their education. Determine which degree is right for you, look for free education, and search for scholarships. Strong collection of resources and The Answers Project responds to questions from education seekers.
Factors in College Admissions decisions factors_in_college_admissions.jpg
GoodCall is a consumer focused website that provides free scholarship listings for high school and college students with no personally identifiable information required.
Degreed A million ways to learn, one place to discover, track and measure all of it. The lifelong learning platform individuals and organizations use Degreed to
find, track and recognize ALL learning.
Free Scholarship Searches page. Provides links to more than 50 free, online scholarship search sites listing thousands of scholarships and financial aid awards worth billions of dollars.
Make no mistake: An undergraduate degree can improve your employment prospects and paycheck size. A high school graduate earns 40% less than someone with a bachelor’s degree and is more than twice as likely to be unemployed. But not all college majors are created equal. In fact, grads with certain majors sometimes fare worse in the labor force than workers who stopped studying after high school.
Worst College Majors for Your Career http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/10-worst-college-majors-for-your-career/1.html#top#ixzz2FpyCFGH3
10 Best College Majors for Your Career http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/10-best-college-majors-for-your-career/1.html#ixzz2FpytaYV6
College Results Online (CRO) is an interactive, user-friendly Web tool designed to provide policymakers, counselors, parents, students, and others with information about college graduation rates for nearly any four-year college or university in the country.
Welcome to the Nation′s premier source for career information! The profiles featured here cover hundreds of occupations and describe What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay, and more. Each profile also includes BLS employment projections for the 2010–20 decade.
Projected Job growth, US Department of Labor compiled the numbers to estimate where the job opening will be in the future.
Find, apply, afford and enroll in a college that is right for you with this step-by-step guide
YouCanGo!™ Helps Inspire Students to Go to College This interactive site showcases videos and stories from students who overcame barriers to make it to college.
Mapping Your Future's vision is to be the leading public-service, collaborative provider of free information and services for schools, and for students and families as they consider college, financial aid, careers, and financial literacy options.
10 Tips for Writing Effective Scholarship Essays
This page lists and links to more than 70 no-cost scholarship websites; virtually every such site that exists. Elsewhere on the site http://www.college-scholarships.com, you'll find additional scholarship information and features of value to your website visitors...information which includes an instant GPA calculator, contact information for every college in the United States, a list of colleges which offer comprehensive programs for students with learning disabilities, lists of Christian, Catholic, and woman's colleges, a list of HBCU's, and links to more than 2,500 career schools and colleges.
Search for Scholarships
Scholarships- II
Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) course listing. Free courses for self directed learning.
HippoCampus This site contains multimedia lessons and course materials.
Open Learning Initiative Carnegie Mellon University provides free online courses and course material in modern biology, French, economics, chemistry, and other subjects.
Take any Udacity class for free! All of our courses are open, which means you can sign up any time and complete the course at your own pace without problem set or exam deadlines.
Coursera We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students. Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.
Guide to Landing a Nursing Job this guide covers career preparation, outlook, networking, and more.
College Results Provides information about college that can help in making a decision regarding the right college for you.
Learn.org helps education seekers save time and money on their education. Determine which degree is right for you, look for free education, and search for scholarships. Strong collection of resources and The Answers Project responds to questions from education seekers.
Factors in College Admissions decisions factors_in_college_admissions.jpg
GoodCall is a consumer focused website that provides free scholarship listings for high school and college students with no personally identifiable information required.
Degreed A million ways to learn, one place to discover, track and measure all of it. The lifelong learning platform individuals and organizations use Degreed to
find, track and recognize ALL learning.
Free Scholarship Searches page. Provides links to more than 50 free, online scholarship search sites listing thousands of scholarships and financial aid awards worth billions of dollars.
Make no mistake: An undergraduate degree can improve your employment prospects and paycheck size. A high school graduate earns 40% less than someone with a bachelor’s degree and is more than twice as likely to be unemployed. But not all college majors are created equal. In fact, grads with certain majors sometimes fare worse in the labor force than workers who stopped studying after high school.
Worst College Majors for Your Career http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/10-worst-college-majors-for-your-career/1.html#top#ixzz2FpyCFGH3
10 Best College Majors for Your Career http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/10-best-college-majors-for-your-career/1.html#ixzz2FpytaYV6
College Results Online (CRO) is an interactive, user-friendly Web tool designed to provide policymakers, counselors, parents, students, and others with information about college graduation rates for nearly any four-year college or university in the country.
Welcome to the Nation′s premier source for career information! The profiles featured here cover hundreds of occupations and describe What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay, and more. Each profile also includes BLS employment projections for the 2010–20 decade.
Projected Job growth, US Department of Labor compiled the numbers to estimate where the job opening will be in the future.
Find, apply, afford and enroll in a college that is right for you with this step-by-step guide
YouCanGo!™ Helps Inspire Students to Go to College This interactive site showcases videos and stories from students who overcame barriers to make it to college.
Mapping Your Future's vision is to be the leading public-service, collaborative provider of free information and services for schools, and for students and families as they consider college, financial aid, careers, and financial literacy options.
10 Tips for Writing Effective Scholarship Essays
This page lists and links to more than 70 no-cost scholarship websites; virtually every such site that exists. Elsewhere on the site http://www.college-scholarships.com, you'll find additional scholarship information and features of value to your website visitors...information which includes an instant GPA calculator, contact information for every college in the United States, a list of colleges which offer comprehensive programs for students with learning disabilities, lists of Christian, Catholic, and woman's colleges, a list of HBCU's, and links to more than 2,500 career schools and colleges.
Search for Scholarships
Scholarships- II
Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) course listing. Free courses for self directed learning.
HippoCampus This site contains multimedia lessons and course materials.
Open Learning Initiative Carnegie Mellon University provides free online courses and course material in modern biology, French, economics, chemistry, and other subjects.
Take any Udacity class for free! All of our courses are open, which means you can sign up any time and complete the course at your own pace without problem set or exam deadlines.
Coursera We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students. Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.