CampusTours

CampusTours develops and provides a directory of virtual college tours, interactive campus maps, campus webcams, video campus tours and college multimedia. Created in 1997, CampusTours helped spawn the growth of the virtual campus tour as an essential component on college and university Web sites.

Virtual college tours are distinct from the tours offered by real estate sites and museums in that they often feature student or alumni tour guides, substantial amounts of video, intricate campus maps, and content personalization.

Virtual tours mark a fundamental and important change in the way that college students, and especially those in the United States, use the Internet to supplement and, in some cases, replace traditional sources of college information. Today the virtual college tour is one of the first sources of information that most students seek when beginning their college search, and many often view the online tour before receiving printed materials, visiting campus or speaking with a representative Fact|date=February 2007.

ample Virtual Tours created by CampusTours

*Art Institute of Philadelphia - [http://www.campustours.com/prodfeatures/aiphilly/ Art Institute of Philadelphia Virtual Tour]
*Berklee College of Music - [http://www.campustours.com/prodfeatures/berklee/ Berklee Virtual Tour - Abobe Site of the Day 2008]
*Paul Smith's College - [http://www.campustours.com/prodfeatures/psc/ Paul Smith's College Virtual Tour]
*Fitchburg State College - [http://www.campustours.com/prodfeatures/fsc/ Fitchburg State Virtual Tour - Abobe Site of the Day 2007]
*Chapman University - [http://www.campustours.com/prodfeatures/chapman/ Chapman Virtual Tour]
*Baldwin-Wallace College - [http://www.campustours.com/prodfeatures/bw/ Baldwin-Wallace Virtual Tour]
*Providence College - [http://www.campustours.com/prodfeatures/providence/ Providence Virtual Tour]
*Lafayette College - [http://www.campustours.com/prodfeatures/lafayette/ Lafayette Virtual Tour]
*Patrick Henry Community College - [http://www.campustours.com/prodfeatures/phcc/ PHCC Virtual Tour]
*Phillips Exeter Academy Interactive Map - [http://www.campustours.com/prodfeatures/exeter/ Exeter Interactive Map]
*American Military University - [http://www.collegetours.com/amu/ AMU Video Tour]
*Clark State Community College - [http://www.clarkstate.edu/vt.html Clark State Virtual Tour]
*Columbia College Chicago - [http://www.campustours.com/prodfeatures/ccc/ Columbia College Virtual Tour]
*The Juilliard School - [http://www.juilliard.edu/about/vtour.html Juilliard Virtual Tour - Adobe Site of the Day 2005]
*Occidental College - [http://tangoapps.oxy.edu/prod/admission/search/ Occidental Admissions Search Presentation]
*Monmouth University - [http://www.monmouth.edu/tour/ Monmouth Virtual Tour]

External links

* [http://www.CampusTours.com www.CampusTours.com]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/fashion/06Online.html?_r=1&oref=slogin 2,200 Colleges, So Little Time (and Money) to Visit] article in the New York Times
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A12368-2002Aug13&notFound=true How My Daughter Rejected Caltech... And Other Adventures in College Tour Land] article in the Washington Post
* [http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/04/15/tem_take_campus_walk_on.html Take a Campus Walk on the Web] article in the Cincinnati Enquirer
* [http://www.tribtown.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=5911 Virtual Tours Aid Search] article in the Jackson County Tribune