BestCollegePicks focuses on helping students select colleges based on what they feel is most important in a college experience so that they can best meet career, income, and lifestyle goals. At the core of BestCollegePicks is a research methodology based on unbiased statistics of how tens of thousands of college graduates fare after they leave American four-year colleges and universities. The results of the surveys are then used to create institutional profiles for the BestCollegePicks database. The survey asks, for example, not only a respondent s occupation, but also the specific kinds of skills performed at work, such as project planning and supervising other employees. BestCollegePicks introduces new selection criteria into the college search process.
Students have the opportunity to select the college clusters that fit their interests.
They can further define their selection with location, tuition, and size preferences. Next, they complete an online survey to match their personal values, work skills, and interests with the clusters they selected. In the end, they arrive at a personal list of approximately fifteen colleges with the profiles that are best qualified to meet their goals, values, and aspirations. With BestCollegePicks, students no longer need to make college decisions based on popular chart rankings or on only a few facts like price, prestige or freshman test scores. Students and their parents have simply needed better ways of finding the one that is best for them.