COLLEGE INFORMATION

Collegetoolkit.com -  Using over a dozen criteria, you can search our extensive database of colleges and universities to find schools that match what you are looking for.


College Board - Extensive guidance and information about jobs and careers and how they relate to college majors. Also includes testing information.

College Bound - A Student's Interactive Guide to College Life. Probably interesting to students, but is not a good college search.

College Guide - This site offers a college search function, admissions information, articles about college life, and a Q&A section.

CollegeNet - This search engine helps you find your ideal college by allowing you to narrow down your choices by region, college sports, major, tuition, and several other criteria.

CollegeWeekLive - the world’s biggest virtual college fair, with hundreds of colleges and universities from around the world exhibiting and tens of thousands of attendees. Students can watch admissions experts speak on topics such as how to prepare for the SAT, how to write a winning application essay or how to pay for college and have questions answered via live chat.

CollegeView - This search engine offers campus tours, career and minority information, and profiles of over 3800 colleges and universities.

DSC Dual Enrollment - This site provides general information for parents and students regarding DSC Dual Enrollment process.

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FACTS.org- A central web resource for planning and managing your higher education experience.  FACTS.org offers information regarding academics, choosing a college, picking a major, college admissions, financial aid information, academic advising, degree audits, transcripts, and career guidance. Students map out courses for high school with FACTS.org's electronic Personal Education Planner (ePEP). Students can monitor their progress with the High School Academic Evaluations, which will compare their transcript information to current requirements for graduation, scholarships, and even college admissions.

Federal Department of Education - Here you will find the latest information regarding the U.S. Department of Education.

Florida Trend's Next - This site contains useful information for students, teachers, counselors, and parents regarding college searches, financial aid, and life after high school.

MyMajors.com - Provides useful advice on college and university majors that a high school senior or first year college student with your interests and achievements might do well in.

Next Step Magazine - An objective guide to help juniors and seniors explore potential careers, research collegiate options and make educated decisions about their futures.

ParentPortal - The ParentPortal will allow parents to monitor their child's progress in school by providing Internet access to grades, attendance, discipline, academic history, graduation verification, and standardized test results in a secure password protected environment. An authorization form needs to be obtained through New Smyrna Beach High School's School Counseling Department in order to access your child's data.

CAREER & OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION


Career-Connection - The Career Connection is a partnership among Volusia/Flagler County Schools, Daytona State College (DSC), the Workforce Development Board of Volusia/Flagler Counties, Inc., and business and community partners. The Career Connection provides career awareness, exploration and training to students throughout the high school experience and beyond through these strong partnerships.

CareerOneStop - Career One Stop provides data from a variety of federal and state sources, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) at the U.S. Department of Labor; the U.S. Department of Education; the Bureau of Economic Analysis at the U.S. Department of Commerce; the Bureau of the Census at the U.S. Department of Commerce; and other Federal, State, and private institutions. Sources of data are cited and web links are provided where possible.

Florida Choices - Helps students explore career and education options and track their progress as they create successful plans.

Employ Florida - Employ Florida links all of Florida's workforce services—state and local—to each other. The Employ Florida Marketplace is a powerful online labor market exchange tool specifically designed for employers, job seekers, students, training providers, workforce customer service representatives and professionals, and others seeking benefits and services.

Mapping Your Future - Mapping Your Future is a national collaborative, public-service organization of the financial aid industry - bringing together the expertise of the industry to provide free college, career, financial aid, and financial literacy services for students, families, and schools.

My Future - My Future is a service presented by the United States Department of Defense (DoD). The goal of the site is to help students understand the opportunities available to them after graduation, and better prepare them for the choices and challenges they have ahead.

Occupational Outlook Handbook Online - the Occupational Outlook Handbook provides information regarding the training and education needed for various occupations, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job and working conditions. In addition, the Handbook provides job search tips and links to information about the job market in each State.

O*Net - the Occupational Information Network provides a comprehensive database that identifies and describes occupations, worker skills, knowledge, abilities and workplace requirements for jobs across the country in 211 sectors of the economy.

The Princeton Review - Search their online database of career advice for insightful information on hundreds of occupations, internship opportunities, and general advice on interviewing and public speaking.