Book Description
This annual guide to more than 330 colleges and universities has been the indispensable source of information for thousands of students, parents and counselors. It offers the perfect blend of statistical academic information and more personal descriptions of the campus cultures and lifestyles of each school. Fully revised and updated, The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2005 includes everything anxious students and their parents want and need to know.

About the Author
Edward B. Fiske served for 17 years as education editor of The New York Times, where he realized that college-bound students and their families needed better information on which to base their educational choices. He is the author of the bestselling annual The Fiske Guide to Colleges and The Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, near the campus of Duke University.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

For more than 20 years, this leading guide to more than 300 colleges and universities has been an indispensable source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Hip and straightforward, the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2005 reliably describes the academic climates and the social and extracurricular scenes at the "best and most interesting" schools in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Fiske's unique insight into what's not to be missed and what's to be avoided reveals the academic strengths, the role of athletics and the social highlights at each school. Professor-student interaction, college setting and scholarships are also hot topics. Compiled from surveys of thousands of students and administrators, the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2005 is thoroughly updated annually. The resulting resource is the best guide to colleges and universities available; USA Today has called it the "most readable and informative" of all college guides.

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