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College Matching: A new World Wide Web site with information on 9,000 public and private institutions of higher education offers a consumer-friendly way to shop for postsecondary schools, according to the U.S. Department of Education, which established the site.

The College Opportunities On-Line, or COOL, Web site asks students to plug in their intended majors and the geographic regions in which they'd like to attend school, and then fetches profiles on colleges that are likely matches. The site's address is www.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool .

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