The following list consists of links to special education issues, study skills websites, links to colleges & home school resources, as well as scholarship information & search engines.

Special Education Issues

Advance
Resource site for females with ADD, containing articles on support groups, resources, and links to other ADD sites.
Attention Deficit Disorder
Information from CHADD (Children & Adults with Deficit Disorders) on diagnosing and treating individuals with attention deficit disorder.

ADD Resources
Information about diagnosing Attention Deficit Disorder and resources available to help cope.
Guide to Attending University for Students with Psychiatric Disabilities
Although this site originates in Canada, it contains much useful advice for a disabled student who wants to succeed on a college campus.

HEATH Resource Center
National clearinghouse on post secondary education for individuals with disabilities, sponsored by George Washington university.

Landmark College
Highly regarded college in Vermont that devotes its curriculum exclusively to provided ambitious and motivated students with learning disabilities or ADHD with the skills needed for academic success.

LD Online
Interactive learning guide on disabilities for parents, children and educators.
National Attention Deficit Disorder Association
Topics included in this site include: ABC's of ADD, research, treatment, coaching, books on ADD, career & work, family issues, legal issues, school & ADD, support groups, teen's area, websites, women & ADD, and work & career.
National Center for Learning Disabilities
This site lists college resources as well as current information about learning disabilities.

Study Skills

Academic Success
Site offered by George Washington University offers lessons to improve study habits and techniques.

Get Smarter
Test your math and science e skills compared to students around the world.

Improve Your Study Skills
Tips on improving your study skills and preparing for exams.

Sites to Improve Your Academic Success
Collection of web sites that provide tips to help you study more effectively, manage your time, take better notes, and handle the stresses of college life.

Study Guides and Strategies
This very complete site has topics including study preparation, taking notes in lectures, effective study habits, testing techniques, writing and reading skills. It is especially helpful to bilingual/ESL students in that many of these study guides and strategies are listed in a variety of other languages as well as in English.

Study Guide Zone
Tips on listening in class, college prep schedules, how to be a good student, learning styles, note taking, systematic reading, forming a study group, motivation for college, time management, effective studying, math fear, beating the stress, test anxiety, nervousness, and test taking techniques.

Study Skills
This site has links to other study skills pages, twenty time savers, how to make a schedule, studying foreign languages, and studying with intensity.

Study Skills
Courtesy of Virginia Tech, here is a great listing of tips and techniques for improving your study skills. Everything from note taking to how to stop procrastinating. Be sure to take the "Study Skills Checklist" to find out where you need to improve.

Study Skills Self-Help Information
This site from Virginia Tech has time scheduling suggestions, how to concentrate, how to take notes, how to read a difficult book, tips on improving reading speed, setting priorities, and strategies to use with difficult test questions.

Study Stack
This site features a flash cards approach for many different academic areas including foreign language, math, science, math, geography and history. Scroll down to find questions appropriate for high school age students.

Study Strategies
Study Strategies site from the University of Minnesota contains a study skills survey, information about time management, memorization, learning styles, and study techniques.

Test Phobia
Twenty specific suggestions to help students cope with a phobia that prevents them from demonstrating what they know.

Writing Tips
Information for students who wish to improve their writing. Material is presented here in small, bite-size nuggets, designed for the age of information overload.

University and School Home Pages

Alphabetic List of US Universities
List of US universities, ordered alphabetically.

American Association of Medical Colleges
A list of medical schools by state which, in collaboration with their undergraduate division, provisionally accept high school seniors or undergraduates who have completed one or two years of study into programs leading to the conferral of both the baccalaureate and the M.D. degrees.

Alternate Therapy Schools
Links to schools organized by state for learning massage therapy, acupuncture, aromatherapy, etc.

American Universities
As home pages are found for American Universities granting bachelor or advanced degrees, they are added here, one page per university.

Animation Schools
School Profile database system that lets you search through detailed listings on more than 570 schools that offer courses and programs in animation and related fields. Fast, easy to use system for researching and finding information about animation education programs of all types. From complete degree programs to workshops and private training, you'll find it here. Search Schools by name, location, program types, degrees offered and even do a keyword search through the entire database!

Architecture Programs
The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) is the sole agency authorized to accredit US professional degree programs in architecture. Most state registration boards in the United States require any applicant for licensure to have graduated from a NAAB-accredited program. This site lists currently 111 schools offering NAAB accredited professional programs in architecture, leading to the Master of Architecture or Bachelor of Architecture degree.

Art Therapy Schools
Approved education programs from the American Art Therapy Association.

Association of American International Universities
Links to the web pages of American colleges located around the world.

Association of Christian Colleges
Clickable map sponsored by accrediting association of bible colleges.

Association of Boarding Schools
Here you'll find information about boarding schools, learn how to apply and search tools to help you find schools with specific programs or courses.

Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
Links to affiliated institutions and information on a career in art and design.

Association of Military Colleges in the USA
This is the site of a nonprofit service organization for schools with military programs approved by the Department of Defense and which maintain good standing in their regional accrediting organizations. It is designed as a source for information on the 46 outstanding military schools that meet the high scholastic, military and ethical standards required for membership.

Athletic Trainers Programs
School information and accredited programs in athletic training.

Boarding Schools
Search for a boarding school by name, state, all-girls school, all-boys schools, military schools, or religiously affiliated schools.

Boarding School Directory
Before you use the searchable database of boarding schools, read the background information about why students attend such schools and the lifestyle.

Business Week's Ratings for Business Schools
Graduate programs in business rated by Business Week.

Canadian Universities
Alpha list of colleges with links to home pages.

Catholic Colleges and Universities
Searchable data base of Catholic universities. Criteria include campus size, region of the country, setting and academic majors.

Christian College Mentor
Searchable data base of Christian colleges. Search criteria include, location, major, sport, and campus size.

Christian College Search
Locate the web sites of Christian colleges searching by name or by criteria.

College and Character
While this site is affiliated with a book that is for sale, it has lists by alpha and by state of colleges that have exemplary college programs that inspire students to lead ethical and civic minded lives. It also organizes the programs into categories such as volunteerism, substance abuse prevention, academic honesty programs, civic education programs, etc.

College Catalogs Online
This subscription site accesses 31,326 college catalogs and has brief profile information and links to college web sites.

College Locator
Browse four year colleges by state.

Colleges in the USA
Locate college homepages organized by state and community within the state.

Community College Web
Index for 1,284 community colleges and 173 related resource sites.

Community Colleges
Alpha list.

Court Reporting
List of schools maintained by the Illinois Association of Court Reporting.

Culinary Schools
Links to top cooking school in the US and around the world. Site sponsored by Peterson's.

Culinary Schools
Links to culinary arts programs not necessarily affiliated with colleges and career planning information for the field.

Degrees and More
Search for on-line education ranging from high school diploma through bachelor's and post masters programs.

EMT/Paramedic Programs
Accredited programs listed by state.

Engineering Schools
All Engineering Schools makes it easy to find the engineering colleges that interest you. Search for engineering schools by location, program type, or specialty.

Equine Related Schools
Lists boarding schools, colleges, and equestrian science programs.

Evangelical Lutheran Colleges and Universities
Links to affiliated university pages.

FairTest
Lists links to the home pages of colleges that list 4-year colleges and universities, ranging in size and mission from small private liberal art colleges to large state university systems, that do not use the SAT or ACT to make admissions decisions about some or all of their applicants seeking admission as freshmen. Some of these school require all applicants to submit test scores whether or not they use the test scores to make admissions decisions.

Forensic Crime Lab
Links for websites to forensic science and criminology programs throughout the world.

Forensic Science
Links to colleges in the United States and the United Kingdom that offer forensic science programs.

Forensic Science
Links to undergraduate and grate programs in the United States and other English speaking countries sponsored by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

GoTRAIN
Search GoTrain by school listings or field of study for vocational training programs that require one year of less of study. Listing is more extensive in some states than others, but promises to add more.

Health Care Assisting
Links to schools offering medical assisting, dental assisting, pharmacy technician, medical secretary, x-ray technician, occupational therapy, etc. programs not necessarily affiliated with a college or university.

Hillel
A guide to Jewish Life on Campus - comprehensive descriptions of Jewish life, contact information and web sites for Hillels on over 500 campuses in North America and around the world.

Historically Black Colleges
Locate colleges by alphabetical list.

Honors Programs
Links to colleges which have honors programs.

The International 50
Fifty colleges active in international studies.

Law Schools
Links to law schools by alpha or by state approved by the American Bar Association.

Less Commonly Taught Foreign Languages
Track information on locations in North America where students can study specific less commonly taught languages. The databases contain information on course offerings for over 300 languages at more than 2,000 colleges and universities in North America.

Lutheran Colleges
While this site is Lutheran in its orientation, it contains comprehensive college planning information for anyone preparing to attend selective colleges.

Methodist Colleges
Links to colleges, universities, pre collegiate schools and seminaries affiliated with the Methodist Church. Organized geographically.

Military Schools
Military schools are typically privately owned and operated prep schools modeled after the United States military based colleges and universities, such as West Point. Nowadays, a military school is both a popular and selective alternative to ordinary schooling.

National Association of Christian College Admission Personnel
Locate member schools by geographic region. Site includes college name, location, phone number, and links to college's web site if available.

National Association of Independent Schools
Data base listing all US college prep schools. Very helpful for the many families that have executive transfers and new jobs in different parts of the country.

Nursing Programs - Accelerated and Fast Track
Links to programs sponsored by the American Association of the Colleges of Nursing.

Nursing Schools
Searchable database also includes links to nursing scholarships.

Oceanography
College and universities with atmospheric, oceanic, and related sciences.

Overview
Career offerings at colleges, universities, and vocational schools - A searchable database of 900+ career fields, 6000+ vocational schools, colleges, and universities with their addresses and phone numbers, links to scholarships, sources of loans, financial aid and advice.

Pharmacy Schools
This is the official site of the Federation of International Pharmaceutical Schools. The list is in the form of a searchable database.

Photography Schools
Links to photography schools that are not part of a university system as well as career information.

Private Schools
Search for private high schools and specialty high schools such as arts academies by state or zip code.
Private Schools in the USA.  Search for private high schools by state and by towns within the state.

Sports Management
Links to universities all over the world that offer sports management.

Technical Schools
Find technical schools by location and career information.

Trade and Technical Schools
Directory to web sites of trade and technical schools, apprenticeships, and community colleges.

Tribal Colleges
Click on the map to go the college links for the 33 institutions that were created in response of the higher education needs of American Indians.

ULinks
A searchable database of over 2,200universities, colleges & trade schools. Search on institution name, or state or even on study discipline.

Universities
Find distance learning classes online, a school using the alphabet, a school using a US map and list of states, a school using a list of international countries, and programs of study from a total of over 10,000 colleges and universities .
Universities with Sports Management Programs. Programs are ordered alphabetically by country and within each country by university name.

Universities, Colleges and Trade Schools
Comprehensive, searchable data base of colleges, universities, trade schools and career diploma programs. School categories include: culinary, technology, design, business, health care and trades.

UnivSource
Features links and resources for international students interested in attending college in the United States. Includes a listing by state of business schools, engineering schools, education schools, law schools and medical schools.

US College Search
Database of almost 10,000 colleges. You can search for colleges by state, degree, name. Also has sections on financial aid and occupations.

Veterinarian Colleges
Site sponsored by the American Veterinary Medical Colleges lists all the universities that offer graduate degrees in veterinary science.

Vocational School Database
Clickable map of the US lists vocational schools for a large variety of occupations.

Web US Higher Education
This page of UT Austin Web Central contains links to Web servers at universities and community colleges in the US.

Women's Colleges
Information about women's colleges as well as links to their web sites.

Worldwide Universities
Comprehensive site provides links to universities around the world and explanation of the educational systems and standards of some of the countries. Links to many of the web sites are in the native language.

Yahoo Guide to University Home Pages
Also has links to American tribal colleges, historical black colleges, men's colleges, women's colleges, private colleges by state, public colleges by state, and community colleges.

Scholarship Information

AORN Foundation - Association of Operative Registered Nurses
On-line scholarship applications for students interested in nursing.

Armenian Student's Association of America
Nonprofit organization provides scholarships for Armenian-Americans.

Broke Scholar
Broke Scholar is a free search engine that lets you search through a database of more than 650,000 college scholarships. After you complete the on-line questionnaire, Broke Scholar shows you each scholarship's name, how much money is available, and the application deadline. Click on the name of any scholarship and Broke Scholar shows you more in-depth information about that scholarship including applicable majors and schools, contact information, and even a link to the scholarship provider's Web site.

Club Scholarship
Clubscholarship.com has over 500,000 awards in a searchable database that allows users to browse for the best matches. It also has a school search feature, EFC calculator, and Financial Aid Forum.

College Scholarships.com
While this commercial site promises to build a personalized list of scholarships that fit a student, it also includes regularly updated scholarship information that is available to anyone who visits the site.

Culinary Scholarships
There are several organizations that offer scholarships for culinary school. The James Beard Foundation makes dozens of scholarships available for study at institutions around the world, some for full-time study and some for cooking demonstration seminars. Awards are based on financial need and aptitude. Find out more by visiting www.jamesbeard.org. Awards for hospitality including culinary arts are available through the American Culinary Federation at www.acfchefs.org. The ACF website also includes a useful directory of accredited institutions. Les Dames d'Escoffier International offers scholarships for women in culinary studies. For more information visit www.ldei.org.

Engineering Scholarships
Part of a comprehensive site on engineering career information.

Fast Web
Very comprehensive site contains a database of over 600,000 scholarships and is growing all the time. Complete a questionnaire and Fast Web will give you a list of scholarships for which you are eligible. Some scholarship applications are available on line. Fast Web will also notify you if additional scholarships are added to its data base that are a match for you.

Free 4 U
Mega scholarship site with links to special interests and specific majors.

FRESH
Weekly newsletter of scholarship and financial aid information. Also has list of contests students can enter to win money for college.

Gilman
List of financial resources for students who wish to study overseas.

Go Abroad
Searchable data base for students who need financial assistance to study over seas.

Guaranteed Scholarships
This comprehensive site lists scholarships that are unlimited in number, and require no interview, essay, portfolio, audition competition of other "secondary" requirements. The scholarships are listed by college. This site would be especially useful to valedictorians and other students with outstanding qualifications.

Hispanic Fund
This site lists scholarships for Hispanic students and universities who participate in the Hispanic Fund scholarship program.

Hispanic Scholarship Fund
This site lists scholarships for Hispanic students, including some for undocumented students.

Hope Scholarship
Information about this scholarship provided by the US Department of Education.

International Scholarships
Scholarship resource for international students wishing to study abroad.

Lunch Money
Search for scholarships by state, religion, sport, etc. Some scholarship applications available from this site. Site also includes other financial aid information.

Mach 25
Fill out a questionnaire and receive information on scholarships that match your characteristics from a base of 600,000 awards.

Nursing Scholarships
Extensive linked list of scholarships for the nursing profession.

ROTC
Information for students interested in obtaining Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarships from the Army, Navy, or Air Force.

Scholarship Help
Comprehensive college preparation site focuses on how to obtain scholarships. Very strong on strategy and evaluating which scholarships are worth the time and effort to compete for.

Scholarship Hunter
A free comprehensive scholarship and contest search site that does not require a student to entire large quantities of personal information.

Scholarship Page
The creator of this site started by looking for electrical engineering scholarships for himself, but has expanded to many other majors. Also included are scholarships grouped by gender, heritage, state, and membership in organizations.

Scholarship Resource Network
Database of over 8,000 programs with a distribution level of over 150,000 awards for undergraduate and postgraduate students worth a total of more than $35 million. This database also includes student loan forgiveness programs for those who have graduated from college and need alternatives for repayment.

Scholarship Scams
Site run by the Federal Trade Commission that helps students and parents avoid unethical scholarship data base providers.

Scholarships 101
Free scholarship search site also has links to other financial aid information.

Scholarships.com
Free college scholarship search & financial aid information resource, connecting students & parents with college funding opportunities. Create a personal profile & the search will match you to the database of college scholarships. Search results include scholarship summaries & a custom application request letter.

Student Scholarship Search
Searchable database of scholarships, loans and grants. The local scholarship section is especially strong. Sign up for the RSS feed so you will be notified of new scholarships added to the site.

Venture Scholars
Program in order to increase the number of traditionally underrepresented students entering science and math-based careers. The Ventures Scholars Program has identified high-achieving African-American, Black, Latino, Hispanic, and Native American students from their PSAT scores and has provided them with recognition and information to increase their chances of pursuing careers in medicine and the allied health professions, science, engineering and mathematics. This has been accomplished by partnering with a consortium of undergraduate and professional institutions nationwide and providing opportunities for these institutions to recruit, enroll, and prepare targeted students for these professions.