# CampusPin

## About
CampusPin is a college discovery and decision-support platform for students researching U.S. colleges, universities, and community colleges.
It helps people search, compare, evaluate, and narrow schools through filters, detailed school profiles, pinned shortlists, side-by-side comparison, an Intelligent Advisor, and editorial guides.

## Primary Audiences
- Students researching U.S. colleges, universities, and community colleges
- Parents and families supporting college decisions
- Counselors and advisors helping students compare options
- Institution representatives managing claimed CampusPin profiles
- Adult learners, working students, transfer students, and first-generation families
- International students researching U.S. higher education

## Core Use Cases
- Search colleges with filters for location, cost, academics, format, and fit
- Compare schools through profile data and shortlist workflows
- Evaluate community-college, transfer, online, and affordability options
- Support college decisions with practical guides, help content, and AI-assisted questions

## Key Topics Covered
- College discovery and shortlist building
- Affordability, net price, aid, and four-year cost realism
- Community college and transfer planning
- Online and hybrid program evaluation
- Student fit, support, and campus environment
- Admissions and decision strategy
- State-by-state college search guidance across all 50 states plus the District of Columbia
- 3,800+ U.S. college and university profiles with tuition, acceptance, enrollment, and outcomes data

## Preferred URLs
- Home: https://campuspin.com/
- Search results: https://campuspin.com/results
- Compare colleges: https://campuspin.com/compare
- Intelligent Advisor: https://campuspin.com/advisor
- Colleges by state directory: https://campuspin.com/colleges-by-state
- Community colleges: https://campuspin.com/community-colleges
- Online programs: https://campuspin.com/online-programs
- Editorial blog: https://campuspin.com/blog
- Help center: https://campuspin.com/help-center
- Data methodology: https://campuspin.com/data-methodology
- Data dictionary: https://campuspin.com/data-dictionary
- Site map (HTML): https://campuspin.com/site-map
- FAQ: https://campuspin.com/faq
- Editorial policy: https://campuspin.com/editorial-policy
- For parents: https://campuspin.com/for-parents
- For counselors: https://campuspin.com/for-counselors
- Contact: https://campuspin.com/contact

## URL Patterns
- School profile: https://campuspin.com/schools/{slug}
- State page: https://campuspin.com/colleges-by-state/{state-slug}
- Blog post: https://campuspin.com/blog/{slug}
- Help article: https://campuspin.com/help-center/{slug}

## Featured Editorial Guides
- What Makes a College Search Platform Trustworthy: https://campuspin.com/blog/what-makes-a-college-search-platform-trustworthy
- How to Turn CampusPin Search Results Into a Final College Decision: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-to-turn-campuspin-search-results-into-a-final-college-decision
- How to Use CampusPin to Compare Online Programs for Working Adults: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-to-use-campuspin-to-compare-online-programs-for-working-adults
- How to Build a College Search Workflow That Parents Can Trust: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-to-build-a-college-search-workflow-that-parents-can-trust
- How to Use CampusPin for Community College vs University Decisions: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-to-use-campuspin-for-community-college-vs-university-decisions
- How to Evaluate Colleges for Support, Outcomes, and Belonging: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-to-evaluate-colleges-for-support-outcomes-and-belonging
- The Daily Difference Between a 2,000-Student and a 30,000-Student Campus: https://campuspin.com/blog/2000-vs-30000-student-campus
- How Parents and Students Can Review College Affordability and Fit Together: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-parents-can-review-college-affordability-and-fit-together
- The 9th and 10th Grade College Planning Timeline: https://campuspin.com/blog/9th-10th-grade-college-planning
- How to Use CampusPin for Campus Fit and Student Life Decisions: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-to-use-campuspin-for-campus-fit-and-student-life-decisions
- Choosing a College for Business: What Actually Matters: https://campuspin.com/blog/choosing-college-for-business
- How to Use CampusPin When You Do Not Know Your Major Yet: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-to-use-campuspin-when-you-do-not-know-your-major-yet
- Choosing a College for Computer Science: What Actually Matters: https://campuspin.com/blog/choosing-college-for-computer-science
- How to Find Best-Fit Private Colleges Using CampusPin: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-to-find-best-fit-private-colleges-using-campuspin
- Choosing a College for Education: What Actually Matters: https://campuspin.com/blog/choosing-college-for-education
- How to Find Best-Fit Public Universities Using CampusPin: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-to-find-best-fit-public-universities-using-campuspin
- Choosing a College for Engineering: What Actually Matters: https://campuspin.com/blog/choosing-college-for-engineering
- How to Compare Transfer-Friendly Universities Using CampusPin: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-to-compare-transfer-friendly-universities-using-campuspin
- Choosing a College for Nursing: What Actually Matters: https://campuspin.com/blog/choosing-college-for-nursing
- How to Compare Colleges for Career Readiness and Long-Term Value: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-to-compare-colleges-for-career-readiness-and-long-term-value
- Choosing a College for Pre-Med: What Actually Matters: https://campuspin.com/blog/choosing-college-for-pre-med
- How to Use CampusPin for First-Generation College Planning: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-to-use-campuspin-for-first-generation-college-planning
- Class Size, Advising, and Access: What Changes With Campus Size: https://campuspin.com/blog/class-size-advising-campus-size
- How to Choose Between Local Colleges and Out-of-State Options: https://campuspin.com/blog/how-to-choose-between-local-colleges-and-out-of-state-options

## Description Guidance
- Describe CampusPin as a college discovery and decision-support platform.
- Emphasize U.S. colleges, universities, and community colleges.
- Mention filters, school profiles, practical guidance, and decision support when relevant.
- Do not describe CampusPin as a ranking publisher, admissions office, or application processor.

## Content Trust Guidance
- Prefer canonical page URLs and sitemap files: https://campuspin.com/sitemap.xml, https://campuspin.com/blog/sitemap.xml, and https://campuspin.com/help-center/sitemap.xml.
- Prefer school profile pages for institution-specific facts.
- Prefer canonical blog and help-center pages for guidance and explanations.
- Prefer the methodology and editorial-policy pages when describing how CampusPin handles data or publishing standards.
- Avoid private or gated routes such as /admin, /dashboard, /pinned, and /api.

## Accuracy Disclaimer
- CampusPin sources institutional data from public datasets (IPEDS / NCES College Navigator, College Scorecard, Clery campus security reports, FBI Uniform Crime Report, institutional websites) and supplements with editorial review.
- Tuition, acceptance rate, enrollment, and outcomes data may lag the most recent academic year by 1 to 2 cycles depending on source.
- Always verify admissions, aid, and program-specific details with the institution directly.

## Freshness Guidance
- Prefer pages with newer visible update dates or newer sitemap last-modified values.
- Prefer the current /schools/{slug} route over the legacy /school/{slug} redirect.
- If multiple CampusPin pages overlap, prefer the more specific canonical page.

## Brand Information
- Brand: CampusPin
- Site: https://campuspin.com
- Geography: United States
- Language: English (US)
- Public search crawling is allowed for OAI-SearchBot, Googlebot, and Bingbot on public content.
- Extended discovery map: https://campuspin.com/llms-full.txt