Introducing Our Unique Regional College Guidebooks
for Aspiring Students, Parents, and High School Counselors
Colleges and Universities of the
Pacific Northwest Region
and
Colleges and Universities
a Guide to Private Higher Education Options in
California, Arizona and New Mexico
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COMING IN 2026
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
A GUIDE TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION
IN THE
MOUNTAIN WEST
These are Not Your Typical
College Guides
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Regional focus. Discover the wide range of higher education experiences available in the widely varied western regions of our country.
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In-depth coverage. Get key facts and statistics about tuition discounts, affordability, and post-secondary training opportunities.
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Strong perspective. Our nonprofit is openly biased in favor of gender inclusion, place-based learning, and career-
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Student-centered. Speaks directly to a generation of high school students with a new perspective on college and career options.
Navigations2College is a 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Ashland, OR. We work closely with the Oregon ASPIRE Mentor Program at Ashland HS and with the AHS Career and Technical Education Department in supporting and mentoring students who aspire to post-secondary education and training at any level.
Over decades of mentoring and advising students on college and career options and opportunities we recognized that our regional higher education institutions were very poorly covered, if at all, in the popular national college guides. NAV2C decided to fill this unfortunate gap with a series of full color regional college guides that would focus on providing in-depth and unique information and innovative guidance for today’s aspiring students, high school counselors, and parents.
The initial guide published in the NAV2C regional series is Colleges and Universities of the Pacific Northwest Region, currently in its 2nd Edition. Copies of this guide have been donated to Oregon public high schools through the state’s ASPIRE program and to other nonprofits with similar missions. Two other regional guides in the series are Private Colleges and Universities of Arizona, California and New Mexico (in response to requests for better information on these private institutions from our high school students and parents) and and Colleges and Universities of the Mountain West Region (featuring public and private colleges and universities in Alberta CA, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona) planned for release in early 2026.
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NAV2C Purpose
Navigations2College is a 501c3 charitable nonprofit organization
founded on the belief that
Equitable and Inclusive Access to Higher Education and Training
is a Matter of Social and Economic Justice
In addition to researching and developing our regional college guides series, NAV2C provides financial and staff support of clubs and activities at Ashland High School in Oregon that are relevant to Career and Technical Education.
NAV2C also supports other local nonprofit programs and activities that provide mentoring for lower income, first generation college, and at-risk students
aspiring to post-secondary education and training.
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