Green River LibGuides: Career and Job Research: Education Research

Education & Training Pathways for Careers

Career Planner

Career Planner provides current information on 350 colleges and universities in Washington and over 500 nationwide.

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Explore careers and make plans to achieve your educational and career goals. Create an account using your Green River email address before logging into Career Planner. Help creating your account.

Explore College Programs with The College Blue Book

The College Blue Book by Macmillan Reference USA (Other)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780028665054
Publication Date: 2020-01-24
The College Blue Book is a comprehensive guide covering nearly 12,000 institutions of higher learning, occupational and technical schools, and distance learning programs. The College Blue Book also features information on obtaining financial assistance for pursuing postsecondary education.
Note that the Blue Book focuses on the US and Canada.

How to Use the College Blue Book

Focus your search in the College Blue Book by:

Narrative Descriptions of College Programs
Tabular Data
Degrees Offered by College and Subject
Occupational Education
Schoarlships, Fellowships, Grants, and Loans
Disance Learning Programs

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College Source

If you know the school you want to research, look it up in College Source. Covers domestic and international colleges.

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Up to date information including 42,100,000 course descriptions from 50,218 college catalogs. Covers 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and international schools.

Using Google to Search a Single Website

You can use Google’s Advanced Search to search within a specific website. In this case, a college’s website. Just copy and paste the website address into the "site or domain" limiter box on the Advanced Google search page (linked below)

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Example: searching "site:lsj.washington.edu" will find only pages from the department of Law, Societies, and Justice at UW.

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Use this search to help you limit by resource, date and more. Find specific types of websites, such as those created for academic purposes (.edu) or government (.gov).