<p>Revamped NCES search engine unveiled to help students and parents find information and compare IHEs.</p>
<p><a href="http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/%5B/url%5D">http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/</a></p>
<p>USA Today: "Need to pick a college? New websites can help" article gives some info on the revamped "COOL" site.</p>
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Today, the Education Department itself weighs in with a revamped version of its 7-year-old site featuring information such as academic majors, tuition and average financial aid for nearly 7,000 schools....
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<p>I found College Navigator to be a powerful and easy to use tool and offers two features lacking in most other college search sites:</p>
<p>1) Admission data by gender. There are many good schools that have relatively large difference in admission rates for men and women. For instance, at William&Mary the overall addmission rate is 32.2%, but that breaks down as 26% for women and 43.8% for men.</p>
<p>2) College cost data for the past 3 years. It is quite useful to get an idea of how fast costs have been rising at a particular school. Having 3 years side by side conveys that information in a way that a single year simply cannot.</p>
<p><a href="http://collegenavigator.ed.gov/%5B/url%5D">http://collegenavigator.ed.gov/</a></p>