How to Use Facebook’s Classmate Search

In Facebook, Classmate Search is similar to Coworker Search in that it takes the information from people’s profiles to create a big, searchable index. Facebook’s Classmate Search is even better, because it lets you find your friends from high school, college, graduate school, and so on. Ever wonder what that awkward kid from the dining hall wound up doing? Look no further.

If you list your educational info in your profile, the fields for Classmate search are pre-filled with your college and high school along with your graduation year.

To use Classmate Search, follow these steps:

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Click on Friends and then select Find Friends from the drop-down menu.

Under Search for People on the bottom left side of the page, you will see three search options; select the link for the school you have listed in your profile. If you have both a high school and a college listed, you can search for only one at a time. If a link doesn’t exist, type the school name in the search box. All alumni from that particular school that belong to Facebook will appear.

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Specify a graduating year.

To specify a graduation year, click on More Search Options in the upper-right corner and then fill in the information in the correct fields.

The graduation year can be huge in filtering the results to the people you actually know. If you just search for Harvard, you get hundreds of results. This could become thousands, if you went to a big school. Either way, it's too many to sift through looking for that one person you knew once upon a time. Limiting it to a certain graduation year makes it easier to find more people that you actually know.

Click Search for Classmates.

See whether you know anyone in the search results.

A quick and easy way to find someone on Facebook is with The Quick-Search box. You enter a name of someone you want to find on Facebook, press Enter, and very quickly get a list of search results.