College Prowler
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| CollegeProwler.com | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Key people | Luke Skurman, Founder and CEO |
| Industry | Publishing, College Guidance |
| Employees | < 20 |
| Website | www.collegeprowler.com |
College Prowler is an American publishing company for guidebooks on top colleges and universities in the United States.
The company's signature business strategy is to create guidebooks written by current college students, for prospective college students, giving an insider's view. Student writers use surveys to gather hundreds of student opinions and reviews, then offer "grades" on all aspects of campus life at each school. College Prowler publishes these "reality guides" on nearly 300 different colleges.[1]
In addition to its school-specific books, the company also publishes a national compendium called "The Big Book of Colleges" and three regional compendiums (California, New England, and the South) that combine multiple schools in one guide. In March of 2007, the company digitized all of its guidebooks, including over 40,000 pages of content, which are now available both in print and online.[2]
The company was established in 2002 by Carnegie Mellon University graduates. It began as a project by Luke Skurman and Joey Rahimi in an entrepreneurship class at CMU's Tepper School of Business.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Standing Out on Campus - Publishers Weekly
- ^ Changing business plan to tech focus pays off - Pittsburgh Business Times
- ^ The Electronic Lowdown on Colleges - The New York Times
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