Good websites for searching grad schools and professors

Graduate School
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<p>Hi guys,</p>

<p>I am a student who is planning to apply grad school in US, I was wondering what websites are you guys using when you are looking for colleges and professors. It’s frustrating for me to search colleges one by one in google. </p>

<p>So far, I only know two sites:
<a href="http://facultysearcher.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://facultysearcher.com&lt;/a>, a webiste which contains the faculites information of top 100 universities in US and canada.
and
<a href="http://academic.research.microsoft.com/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://academic.research.microsoft.com/&lt;/a>, a website based on the data from academic papers.</p>

<p>Do you guys have other useful websites which can help us searching colleges and faculties? If you have other good website, pls share with us :)</p>

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<p>I recommend [PhDs.org:</a> Jobs for PhDs, graduate school rankings, and career resources](<a href=“http://phds.org%5DPhDs.org:”>http://phds.org) it has a searchable database from the 2007 National Research Council survey. It does not have information about specific faculty though.</p>

<p>The facultysearcher site only has a limited list of disciplines and the microsoft site is not bad but Google Scholar does the same thing and probably better.</p>

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<p>I just used the universities’ and departments’ websites, and gleaned information from my professors about what departments were good and might have my area of study. I found my current grad program by using Google.</p>

<p>I know Social Psychology Network has a network of professionals in that field, but you have to request a profile and so of course it’s limited.</p>

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<p>Search google for the particular research area you’re interested in.</p>

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<p>Look at authors of papers in the field you are interested in, then look at who keeps showing up in the citations. Go to these universities’ websites. You will start to see trends and figure out where has strong programs in your specific subfield.
On the universities’ websites there is also usually a listing of professors in the department and their research interests. I have done a lot of scanning through such lists.</p>