While looking for the info for a college, once, traditional college guidebooks were great source like The Princeton Review. As those guides were only for a superficial knowledge that were used to be provided, however, for a concrete knowledge and learning one was needed to consult with college’s communication department.   But at present time, situation is totally different, where you can have all the information about the colleges you are dreaming to take admission at various social media sites.  Here some of the social media sites are provided for you to choose out the college that you wish to join in coming period.

College Prowler: Apart from the mentioned issues in the old college review books like academics, acceptance, graduation and many other related issues there are many other topics that are needed to be catered and heard about like night life at the college, food, parking and weather at the college. To provide information about all these related issues Luke Skurman started College Prowler in 2002 to provide information about all these related issues. And he nominated students to write the guidebooks. Earlier sold in stores now these College Prowler guidebooks are available online for free.

Unigo: With proposal for students to rate and review colleges that they wish to seek admission into, this site provides with clearer idea of things. In Unigo, apart from the information about general topics like enrollment, tuition, the rating is also provided on topics like drug and alcohol culture, political activity, accessibility to the professors and other related issues.

Communiversity: This site is provided with pages for respective colleges, where students can share info on their campus life using text, photo and video. This site is of great importance for incoming freshman to the school. This site is in wiki format so anyone can come and edit information on this site.

Campus Buddy: On Facebook, it is the application that connects high school students with matriculating students of that school where they are seeking admission. This way it helps a student to learn about the school, viewing rating of current students and connecting them with students at that school.

Rate My Professors: This site provides info about the college professors and their teaching methods where you are planning to take admission. This would help you to make a proper decision about the college of your choice and opinion after learning about teaching faculty.

The College Blog Network: This is a directory of blogs written by students learning at different colleges about campus life and day-to-day college activities. However, at this site there is hardly any limitation of topics a student can write upon. This site is coming up with new look as CollegeBlender in August.

YouTube: The education section of Youtube is another helpful area to learn about colleges as it is filled with videos comprising taped lectures, interview with students, and overview of facilities at campus and question and answer session with teachers. These videos can also help in selecting a college of your choice and opinion.

The University Review: This site is very simple in operations as a student has to select his university in Ten Categories, consisting of Academics, Athletics, Campus & Facilities, Dining, Diversity, Greek Life, Housing, Parties & Nightlife, Safety & Security, and Surrounding Area and then rate it between1-10.

YourCampus360: This site provides 360 degrees tour of schools listed in it. So a student could learn about a school prior before making a visit, physically.

StuVu: Here a student can have creative videos, photos and reviews of college to have better about it, before, finally filing an admission form.