It is hard to believe summer is almost over.  Vacations become distant memorys.  Kids are going back to school as we approach labor day.  School buses are showing up on the roads.  And, many colleges and universities have already begun classes.   Time is flying by. 

Each year, as we approach the end of summer, AcademyOne also closes the cycle of collecting an academic year of college course offerings and begins anew.  We collect about 18,000 files from college and university websites each year.  The files are used to convert the current course offerings to our national database.  About 8% of courses nationally change each year.  So, we take our role seriously and collect 4,100 college catalogs and course offering lists to update the Course Atlas each year.  We do the work in stages.  Approximately 500 catalogs are collected and converted monthly to allow us to manage the quality control checking.  If you see anything awry, please tell us.  We will make what ever effort needed to assure the quality of the...

Welcome to the CourseAtlas.com blog.  We have spent two years building the database hosted on CourseAtlas.com.  We have searchable catalogs from more than 4,100 US schools for a total of over 3,500,000 courses and we are not finished yet. 

Our goal is to provide an open, easily accessible, searchable database of courses that is available to everyone – whether you are looking for specifics on school and its courses or just having fun browsing.  Why not?  It’s free!

My name is David Moldoff, and I'm founder and CEO of AcademyOne, the company which created CourseAtlas.com.  I work on college course and transfer issues nationwide helping public policy makers and higher education advocates gain an awareness of the special needs of college students, and their advisors, parents, mentors and friends.

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