California Colleges
What is California Colleges?
Whether you’re just starting your college and career journey in middle school or you’re getting ready for life after high school as a senior, CaliforniaColleges.edu is here to help you every step of the way. As the State of California’s official college and career planning platform, California Colleges empowers you by providing tools to help:
- Discover your strengths and interests, learn how they connect to fulfilling careers, and understand the steps you need to realize your goals
- Plan out your high school coursework and track your grades, college and major searches, and career exploration
- Launch and track your California Community College, California State University, and University of California applications, as well as federal and state financial aid applications
…All in one place.
Student Tools
Career Assessments: Our Career Assessments can help you identify your values, interests, learning styles, and strengths and learn how they can connect to fulfilling careers.
Career, Major, and College Search Tools: Our Career, Major, and College Search Tools allow you to identify potential careers that match your interests, find what majors will help you achieve your career goals, and explore what colleges best meet your needs.
College and Career Planning Tools: Preparing to succeed in college, career, and life begins by making a plan. Our college and career planning tools can help set you up for success as you begin to plan for life after high school. Here you will also find My Plan which helps you organize your thoughts, track steps, and develop a clear plan for the future. Under your My Plan, you’ll find a host of tools that will make college and career planning as easy as 1-2-3.
College Application Tools: When you’re ready to apply to colleges, you can use the tools within the Academic Planner on CaliforniaColleges.edu to check your progress towards eligibility for a UC or CSU. You’ll also be able to launch and track your applications to UCs, CSUs, and California Community Colleges—all in one place.
Financial Aid Tools: Financial aid is one of the most important and complex parts of the college application process. Through CaliforniaColleges.edu, you can access tools that will help you learn about, plan for, and apply for financial aid.
ALL CIHS Students have an account. If you are having trouble accessing your account, contact your teachers or counselor.
Parents,
As the State of California’s official college and career planning platform, CaliforniaColleges empowers students by providing them with a one-stop shop for all the tools they need to set goals for life after high school and make plans to achieve them. College, career, and financial aid planning can be complicated, and parents often have a lot of questions. California Colleges is here to help guide your family through the process.
Parents, Are you ready to get started on CaliforniaColleges.edu?
Start with learning How To Register Your Parent Account. NOTE: Legal guardians and caretakers are also able to get Parent Accounts, so if this applies to you, follow the steps to obtain a Parent Account. If you need help learning how to navigate and use the tools on California Colleges, check out the interactive tutorials and other resources in the parent Resource Hub