National Resources in Higher Education

Accreditation Agencies

• The Council for Higher Education Accreditation provides a directory of accreditation Web sites
• American Chemical Society
• American Occupational Therapy Association
• American Physical Therapy Association
• National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
• National Association of Schools of Music
• Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

College and University Resources

• Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (at the University of Michigan)
• Brown University's Futures Project on higher education
• UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute
• National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (at Stanford University)

Foundation and Private Resources

• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
• Council for Opportunity in Education
• Institute for Higher Education Policy
• National Center for Higher Education Management Systems including the National Information Center for Higher Education Policymaking and Analysis

National Organizations

• American Council on Education and the
  Washington Higher Education Secretariat
• Association of American Colleges and Universities
• Association of American Universities
• Education Commission of the States
• Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium
• National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
• National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
• National Collegiate Athletic Association
• National Postsecondary Education Cooperative
• Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education

U.S. Government Resources

• Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
• National Center for Educational Statistics produces reports and services
  • Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System including the Peer Analysis System,
  • Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP), and
  • ANSWERS, a portal for access to NCES national datasets
• Encyclopedia of Education Statistics
• Electronic Catalog: designed to facilitate the electronic transmission of administrative information of interest to education entities
• National Science Foundation
• NSF's CASPAR database provides a wide range of information on the sciences
• Office of Educational Research and Improvement
• U.S. Census Bureau including its 1990 Census Lookup
• U.S. Department of Education including
  • the National Library of Education
  • a list of publications, and
  • ED search software enables searching for education-related documents across a variety of government sources

Directories of Institutions of Higher Education

• Carnegie classifications of institutions of higher education 
• Council of Independent Colleges
• Directories of Institutions of Higher Education provided by
  • University of Texas
  • MIT
• Independent Higher Education Network