College Poster Project

PURPOSE
The purpose of this project is to learn about the wide variety of post-high school educational opportunities
available to students in our community. You will research a post-secondary educational institution (a college,
university or trade or technical school) and present your findings in a poster project to your classmates. Your
job is to summarize the schools selling points by creating an attractive, informational visual display. You may
use any information from the colleges website, brochure, or any other source as long as it is

POSTER REQUIREMENTS
The layout and design of your college poster is up to you, but each poster must include the following
information:
o The name of the school
o Where the school is located and how to get there from our community (bus, train, car, airplane, etc)
o Popular majors
o Sports
o Student Life (clubs, Greek system)
o Where do most students live? In the dorms, at home, or off -campus
o The percentage of students admitted
o The annual cost
o The percentage of students who receive financial aid
o The number of students (undergraduate vs. graduate)
o The average SAT scores of admitted students
o The average GPA of admitted students
o The percentage of men vs. women
o The percentage of various races of students
o Anything else that might be interesting to interested students

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college poster project: rubric

You will earn points by how thoroughly and clearly you present the following information on your poster. If
the poster is unclear or difficult to read, you will not receive points.

Name
Location
Popular majors
Sports
Student Life (clubs, Greek system)
Housing
The percentage of students admitted
The annual cost
Financial Aid
The number of students
Average SAT
Average GPA
The percentage of men vs. women
The percentage of various races of students
Anything else that might be interesting to interested students
Poster is creative and thoughtful
Poster is NEAT and easy to read
It looks like you spent at least a few hours and a lot of thought on
this
Poster is colorful

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2009 College Summit; All Rights Reserved All materials and resources remain the property of College Summit and are intended for classroom use only.
Materials may not be used, distributed, copied, or reproduced for any reason that is outside of its intended purposes without the express written permission of
College Summit.